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Basic Information
- Real Name: Lucas Gangstad
- Steam Name: LastTalon (often seen as Ruben)
- SteamID: STEAM_0:0:25814299
- Age: 20
- Country: United States of America
Personal Description
I'm a Computer Science student currently studying at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville. I've enjoyed TF2Center when I've used it and have always found the service very user-friendly. I've recently become more interested in the community surrounding TF2Center, which I've now come to realize is a fair bit larger than I originally thought. The reason I'm applying to become a member is so I can keep up with what is going on in this community and with TF2Center as well as offering my help in any way I can. I'm a decent programmer and, although I may not have much experience (if any) with what is being used to develop TF2Center, I would like to offer my help as a developer. I understand that this could potentially take a long time or may not even happen considering there would probably be a lot for me to learn before being able to help in any meaningful way (although I am definitely willing to learn). But if there is anyway I can help with this amazing project I would love to be part of it.
Programming Information
Unfortunately I don't have a lot to show for myself. Most projects I've worked on are some combination of unfinished or failing to exemplify me as a programmer. To make up for this I would be willing to show my programming ability in some other way. I started programming at a very basic level in a version of pascal for an obscure macro program. At the time I was very young and only learned it out of necessity of wanting to use the program in a more advanced way. I had no idea that it was in pascal at the time or that I was actually writing a script in a programming language (nor do I remember how to use that language now). Shortly after this I gained interest in writing scripts in Lua for a game called ROBLOX. I became quite proficient at this and did it well for quite a while. This is where I learned quite a bit about programming and learned to enjoy it. When I stopped playing roblox and got into other games such as TF2 I started learning to do things with different web languages and making various tech-demo-y type sets of web pages mostly as experiments for myself to figure out what I could do in them. I used languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, etc. to make these. I also took various computer science classes at my highschool around this time and did a lot of personal research about web development around this time. Toward the end of highschool I made my first venture into languages such as C, C++, Basic, Java, etc. It was during highschool that I decided I would be interested in making a career out of programming and decided to go to college for computer science. I ended up going into college as a Software Engineering student, but recently have decided that I would rather be a Computer Science major and switched. I've learned a lot about programming and programming theory over the course of my interest in it, and hope to remain interested in it for the rest of my life.
I hope to meet more of the community soon and hope to some day be able to help out here.
