{"id":8,"date":"2024-01-11T17:41:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/?p=8"},"modified":"2024-01-11T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:04:22","slug":"starting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/2024\/01\/11\/starting-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the first post in a blog I will be making about my adventures in creating a capstone project for OSU&#8217;s Computer Science Capstone Class. I&#8217;m excited because this is the last term before I graduate and I&#8217;ve been on the journey for awhile now. This is actually the second blog I&#8217;ve had to create for a computer science class. If you want a laugh, check out my old blog post from 2020 with my hot takes on artificial intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jamestbalden\/ai-making-things-weird-88f110656d4a\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jamestbalden\/ai-making-things-weird-88f110656d4a\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My journey into the world of computer science has been a long and twisting one. My original degree is in history, and I was interested in doing work in museums. I got a job working at a science museum and got involved in running their makerspace. I rediscovered a love for tech and learning new technology that I hadn&#8217;t been in tune with since growing up. Looking at my options, and talking with my wife we decided maybe I should go back to school for computer science. I slowly made my way through a CS program at a state university. Eventually life made it important for me to find a program I could do online and that&#8217;s when I found the OSU post-bacc ecampus program. It was perfect and would cut time out of my projected graduation date. My program was taking longer than I liked because of the need to take GE classes that the state university would not accept from my original degree. I enrolled at OSU and have been going fulltime as a student since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, that&#8217;s the short version, there&#8217;s some other things that happened in there along the way ( I became a CS teacher at a secondary school, more on that later most likely). Anyway the main focus of this blog will be looking at the current part of my journey the Capstone Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point in the capstone class we&#8217;ve entered a survey with which projects we are interested in, and are now waiting to see what project and group we will be with for the term. I&#8217;m excited to get started and work on something bigger than past projects I&#8217;ve created. I&#8217;m going to try posting here weekly to keep you dear reader up to date on the goings on of this epic undertaking in software development. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first post in a blog I will be making about my adventures in creating a capstone project for OSU&#8217;s Computer Science Capstone Class. I&#8217;m excited because this is the last term before I graduate and I&#8217;ve been on the journey for awhile now. This is actually the second blog I&#8217;ve had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/baldentech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}