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When I was 9 I started using “Cheat'o'matic” to have infinite health in Diablo 1 in the late 90s and it got me really interested in how computers work. I bought a kid-oriented book that taught Turbo Pascal and it showed some cool algorithms to draw spirographs and I enjoyed tinkering with it. From there I got to Delphi. At that point I was playing some online games and heard that they were written in PHP so I started learning that along with HTML. Then C, x86 ASM (just basics), and Flash's ActionScript, Visual Basic, C++, Java, Python, and now Rust.
I got my PhD in computer security and have been working in Cyber R&D doing automated binary analysis.
Fun fact the author of Cheat'o'Matic now works on VAC anti-cheating system