Salutations, to all of my friends at OSU. Добрый День
My name is Cody Hill (William is my legal first name, never you mind it) and I am a senior-level student here at OSU.
Timezone: My timezone is PST and I am located just outside of Los Angeles County in Southern California.
Personal Details: I am fortunately childless and pet-less (I have a boyfriend to feed and take on walks, don’t worry). My hobbies are mainly learning languages and playing music. My favourite languages are Spanish & Japanese, but each and every language is just as beautiful to me. I play an 8 string electric guitar and a 5 string electric bass, both black both Ibanez. If I’m not doing that I’m either playing Dead by Daylight or FFXIV (fellow WoLs, where are you at?).
My Journey: I got started with computers and coding in the 2010s. My brother was a computer science student and I had some experience in HTML so coding looked rather appealing. Plus I’m old enough to have had a MySpace and made blog posts on the old internet so I was well familiar with HTML. So I took many courses on Codecademy and fell in love with JavaScript and React. I went back to school at College of the Canyons (community college) and progress on my degree was at a snails pace. Then blessed be, Covid struck and college was moved online. I am a member of the working poor and I was finally afforded an opportunity to progress my education more than the one or two classes that were offered a semester online before Covid-19. Covid-19 proved that many college classes COULD have been offered online the entire time, but most facilities had been simply refusing to do so. I graduated with an AS and went on to OSU.
Employment: I am down for anything that is part-time and provides benefits (impossible). I just quit my job to focus on school this semester.
Favourite Technologies: I am a bog fan of everything JavaScript. However, the scene is constantly changing and the technologies progress and change faster than I can finish a project, it seems. I am also very fond of PHP, Python, and C++ for the ease with which I can make projects. C and C++ are fun but the classes that utilize them sure are not.
Favourite Listed Projects: The NES emulator one looks exceedingly dope, and I would love to participate. Also, the board game and text-based adventure game projects also look extremely promising! I seem to be gravitating towards games this semester. I am anti-AI in its current state, so I am not keen on making yet another ChatGPT-wrapper application. If I want to hear something tell me things and be confidently wrong about it, I’ll talk to my friends!
I hope to work with my fellow programmers in a positive way and have a good time working on a fun, productive project. Stay safe and well-hydrated, y’all!