Blog Post #1

About Me

Hello everyone, and welcome to my blog! My name is Skylar Eade, I am an undergraduate at Oregon State University studying computer science. I live in Albany, Oregon, which is just 20 minutes out from the Oregon State campus. Outside of computer science one of my biggest hobbies is hiking, which my dog, a German shepherd husky mix, often joins me on.

What got me interested in computer science was initially my childhood obsession with video games. By the time that I discovered YouTube, I began doing lots of research into how computers work, their different parts, and how games were created on them, so it’s safe to say I have been interested for quite some time. 

Favorite Project Options

After browsing through the different available projects, I would have to say that my top two choices would be the Malware Analysis and Algorithm Stock Market Trading Strategies. I feel that my skills are best suited for these projects and they also both are interesting topics. Malware Analysis is a project that really screams out to me, as my concentration is in cybersecurity, so I would love some extra hands on experience with analyzing malware. The Algorithm Stock Market Trading Strategies project also looks quite interesting, with the goal being to implement different trading strategies/algorithms in order to test and evaluate their efficacy.