Student Blog for CS467

  • Blog Post #1

    I’ll be adding something that I find fun or interesting to the required content for each post.

    Typically when I do a group project as a student, I get pushed into a leadership role because no-one else wants it, and I don’t mind the responsibility. However, I think I’m naturally more of a technically creative/researching type.

    I chose to go into Computer Science because of the first name given to me by my parents – just kidding. As a child I was very introverted and obsessed with arcade games, teachers found that I was very good at math in middle school and put me in a special program with access to an early PC running DOS, I was programming in BASIC and created an arcade style game as a high school senior. Fast forward past my wasted 20s and a 10 year career in Mechanical Engineering that ended with a pandemic layoff and stagnant job market, and here I am.

    For this class, we’re trying to form a team to do the Adventure Van Roof Rack Configurator as a resume project. I think this will not be the easiest project to take on, but it sounds doable and should be really cool when it’s all finished. We have two people interested so far, if anyone else wants to join us, email myerscod@oregonstate.edu and then we can jump in a Discord and figure out how to synchronize our project preferences (in case we don’t get our first choice).

    Fun fact: I like to use the new AI chatbots to start Python projects. I just ask it a few questions about how to get started, and it picks out a few libraries and gives me working starter code. Then I look up methods and syntax to change the starter code so it does exactly what I need. It’s like having a mentor who already knows all the capabilities of all the libraries one can install.

  • Blog Post #1

    I’ll be adding something that I find fun or interesting to the required content for each post.

    Typically when I do a group project as a student, I get pushed into a leadership role because no-one else wants it, and I don’t mind the responsibility. However, I think I’m naturally more of a technically creative/researching type.

    I chose to go into Computer Science because of the first name given to me by my parents – just kidding. As a child I was very introverted and obsessed with arcade games, teachers found that I was very good at math in middle school and put me in a special program with access to an early PC running DOS, I was programming in BASIC and created an arcade style game as a high school senior. Fast forward past my wasted 20s and a 10 year career in Mechanical Engineering that ended with a pandemic layoff and stagnant job market, and here I am.

    For this class, we’re trying to form a team to do the Adventure Van Roof Rack Configurator as a resume project. I think this will not be the easiest project to take on, but it sounds doable and should be really cool when it’s all finished. We have two people interested so far, if anyone else wants to join us, email myerscod@oregonstate.edu and then we can jump in a Discord and figure out how to synchronize our project preferences (in case we don’t get our first choice).

    Fun fact: I like to use the new AI chatbots to start Python projects. I just ask it a few questions about how to get started, and it picks out a few libraries and gives me working starter code. Then I look up methods and syntax to change the starter code so it does exactly what I need. It’s like having a mentor who already knows all the capabilities of all the libraries one can install.

This app needs work. My second post was erased and replaced with a duplicate of my first post.