{"id":3,"date":"2023-09-25T22:28:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T22:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/?p=3"},"modified":"2023-09-25T22:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T22:28:33","slug":"the-first-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/2023\/09\/25\/the-first-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello everyone, and welcome to the first post of what I&#8217;m sure will be a meandering but meaningful adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am currently attending Oregon State University online, working towards a Bachelors in Computer Science. I also work full-time as a Software Engineer at a local internet service provider and have a loving wife and two incredibly adorable kids.<br><br>I am attending my final class (Capstone Project) before attaining my degree and I couldn&#8217;t be more excited. I have honestly really enjoyed my experience in the program. I have learned a huge amount and have been inspired to continue my journey in exploring all manners of topics in this field. Mainly though, I am looking forward to putting the pedal to the metal and start diving it head first on some &#8220;real-life&#8221; projects.<br><br>The projects I am most interesting in completing for my capstone project tend to mirror the fields that I am most interested in (I should hope so). These were some of the ones I was most interested in participating in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AI Coder\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fully lean on existing AI tools to plan and develop a web project from scratch, documenting your progress along the way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Algorithmic Stock Market Trading Strategies\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Build a data pipeline for developing, testing, and deploying algorithmic trading strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Website Security Research Project\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Build a vulnerable web project and harden it, documenting the steps and progress along the way.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I am really looking forward to working on one of these exiting projects to add a capstone (pun intended) to my resume, learn a whole lot, and to be able to work alongside a great team while doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, and welcome to the first post of what I&#8217;m sure will be a meandering but meaningful adventure. I am currently attending Oregon State University online, working towards a Bachelors in Computer Science. I also work full-time as a Software Engineer at a local internet service provider and have a loving wife and two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5,6,3],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coding","tag-programming","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codinginatincan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}