Paul Hatcher

I have been a programmer and computer enthusiast all my life. In elementary school my father often brought home a computer from the school he taught at during long breaks. This was my first introduction to computers in general and DOS and gaming specifically. Back then, Indianapolis 500: The Simulation was, to me, the epitome of electronic gaming.

My first exposure to programming was in high school. Sometime around my sophomore year I purchased a second-hand Texas Instruments TI-82 calculator. It wasn't long before I found the built-in program editor and started experimenting. I've been programming nearly non stop since then. A programming class was offered my senior year, which I eagerly signed up for. Finishing the coursework in about 2 months (it was suppose to be a year long course) I set out to learn several more programming languages. By the end of the year I was helping the teacher resolve bugs in the salutatorian's code, was proficient in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and had started learning Visual Basic.

After graduating high school, attending Purdue University for a degree in Computer Science seemed like the next logical step. Now I work for a large corporation as a software engineer as well as writing software for my wife's business and creating web site for local businesses.