My beginning is my brother making very simple progs on his casio calc.
Then i couldn't wait to get my calc because iw anted to program, the day i got it i wrote my first hello world programming (only i didn't know hello world programs yet so the text was other text).
Pretty soon i googled for games on my calc and got like day 2 of having my calc mirageos on it with some games, i didn't know how to use archive yet, thought, i eeventually found out grouping. I remember having pacman, mario, tetris and greytunnel (greyscale fast tunnel).
So yeah, then i started making my first basic games that had some value: a program that gave you random claculations and you had to awnser them! Well, as it was only home-screen based you could enter the equasion itself, but it had tons of stuff like difficulties and highscore and everything.
So, then eventually I learned about graphscreen programming, man was I happy!
I wrote my first version of mino, a never published one, it was crappy, but still i was so happy!
Then after some more googeling I came suddenly to xLib and I started re-making mino with xlib, that is the version on my website already. (I didn't really know about the community yet, keep that in mind!)
So yeah, pretty soon after I started making mino I found DCS and I replaced my xLib app with DCS and I joined cemetech! During my cemetech carreer I finished programming mino. I made so many programs that i became on cemetech busiest author #3 (and still am, lol), some time i made hten also a ticalc.org acc and started uploading progs there. Back in those days I still thought that omnimaga was wierd ^^
So, what did get me to omnimaga? Axe did! It bugged me taht on cemetech there wasn't so much support for that, compared to omni, so i joined omni! yay.
Then I programmed a bit more in axe. Then I did computer programming. And IRC bots. Then I took over OmnomIRC, and tomorrow I'll take over the world!

... wow he threw away his graphing calc?

Well, the college education was finished so I guess it wasn't needed anymore

I've always had a fascination with computers, but I often found setting things up for dev was time consuming and tedious. I got my first calc - an 84+SE - and saw the prgm key. Oh, cool! I can program this thing easily! I got into TI-BASIC and I'm now trying to learn Axe. I also have come into possession of 2 Nspires, which I think are fun because of their raw power.

I was in 6th grade when my friend Tristan who I sat next to on the bus showed me his TI-BASIC game called Choose. I was fascinated and I started learning TI-BASIC from him and his tutorials. After that school year ended, I didn't have a calculator of my own, so I had to wait for 8th grade to come around, when they give out TI-83+'s. That's when I started my Choose game called Decide. That year, for Christmas, I got my TI-84+SE and I transferred all of my programs from my school calc to it. I was skeptical about the calc websites at first, but in January 2012 I joined Cemetech. Around a month later, I joined Omnimaga. I've been learning C for the Prizm, Axe, and more BASIC ever since.

I was bored in biology one day and just started pressing random buttons. I found the programming menu and just put a bunch of random stuff in a program, and when I ran it, it got stuck in a loop, and I didn't know about the 'press on to break' thing, so I cleared my RAM, as it was an NSpire. I became interested in what the menu was actually for, found a tutorial on making a number guessing game, and here I am today, 3 years later.

The first time I saw calc games was in late 2000 when I saw someone play Tetris and Nibbles on his TI-83+ in English class. Then it convinced me to buy a calc in July 2001 for school, but also to code. My first programming experience was some sort of dice-pen RPG monsters database meant to be used with the choose your own adventure comic book I planned to create. Eventually I tried to make a text based RPG battle then slowly got into making RPGs.