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System . out . println ( "Hello World!" ) ; My interest in development started in an apartment in London, where I'd spend time each evening reading through the excellent "Head First Java" book and using, of all things, Notepad to build my little apps. Feeling super confident after these bold strides into development (having spent many, many hours trying to find out why my Notepad code wouldn't compile...always as a result of a mistype) I decided to buy another book, that would take me through developing a Game Engine from scratch using Java with my freshly-minted skills. Needless to say, this, was a big mistake. And it didn't end well.  Thankfully I stumbled upon Unity and started doing the tutorial lessons in earnest. I found my time playing around with Java made working with C# quite an easy transition, and most of the concepts were already familiar to me. And thankfully, with Unity I didn't have to re-invent gravity, physics or anything el...