General Information:
I was born in Israel in 1985.
My fields of interest include algorithm design and programming.
In high-school (and some time before) I used to practice in the Maccabi Tel-Aviv Track and Field Club.

My computer-related history:
         I started programming at the age of 9 years. I learned QBasic at the "Computers and Fun" Camp ("מחשבים וכיף") in the summer of '94 in Kibutz Shfayim ("Computers and Fun" are now called InterSchool. They got several times bigger since '94..). I then proceeded to practice QBasic with two books by Dror Mymon ("מלאכת מחשב"). I developed simple games and simple graphical demos at home.
         In the 5th grade I decided to call the publishers of those books to ask them if they knew a place where I could learn to program further. By a coincidence, Dror was there and he told me about his computers school ("מלאכת מחשב") in Ramat Hasharon. I enrolled, and the guides there gave me the push that allowed me to keep learning by myself later. I wrote many programs and games, such as Pacman and Tetris clones in Pascal and in C.
         There I met Gil, my good friend to this day. Together we spent white nights of nonstop programming. When I was in the 8th grade we decided to develop a larger-scale game. We worked on a tanks game, Kondor, for a year. When it was released we uploaded it to the Internet, together with a set of articles about game and general programming, encapsulated under the name "QSoft" (today's Ragestorm).
        In the following two years, as I can see it now, I was seeking "where next to go". I got into assembly-programming, into basic academic-level math, and even a bit into philosophy. Those years were confusing, although now I see I learned alot. During this time I also won the CodeGuru3 and CodeGuru4 competitions which kinda' told me I was going in some kind of a right direction after all.
         This period of confusion ended when I passed the first stage of the Israeli Computer Science Olympiad. For the next few months I focused on learning algorithm design and programming. Finally, I was chosen to be in the Israeli team for the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics). I participated in the IOI twice and won a Bronze medal.

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