Florent Lagoutte

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT FLORENT LAGOUTTE

My first approach to programming was when I was 12, I begun to code with small Visual Basic scripts prompting different jokes based user\'s choices. I went a little further by discovering Windows Shell scripting basics: as an example I had one that compressed folders everyday at a given time, something we could consider as backups.Two years later, I used to build some easy hacks for games thanks to a website called mpgh.com, like superjumping, wallhacks, etc. I learnt how memory works (thank you CheatEngine) and how to modify it to our convenience to make us able to do originally impossible things.From there I did not learn much until my BTS (BAC +2 in France), there I discovered PHP and OOP with C#. I also learnt SQL during these two years. We had an overall view of what programming was, but could not do anything concrete with that few of knowledge yet.Right after my BTS exam (2014), I\'ve moved out to Paris to integrate a brand new school called 42.Then, great things began: I had to learn C the hard way, with a golden rule that was \"you cannot use what you did not code yourself\", so no libraries were allowed at all, not even libc; no printf, nothing except write(), malloc() and free(). It was awesome.That\'s where I learnt to use Unix, and discovered a bunch of great languages such as C++, Shell, Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, and x86 Assembly. I also had the chance to discover Security basics, OpenGL, Unity and WebGL 3D engines such as BabylonJS and ThreeJS.There were no schedule, no teachers, nothing that we\'re used to see in classical schools, but a great way to find the developer in yourself and to love it, a way that made me learn a hundred times faster than I ever did, anywhere.Why so? Probably because I there was always passionating work to do, a lot of projects at the same time and different people - with lot of different knowledge - coming from all around the world.