I have always fashioned myself as someone who has had an eye towards technology and an eagerness to mess around and tinker with that technology. As with a lot of people my age, I started by manipulating MySpace source code so that I could change fonts and background colors on my personal page. From there, I put my “coding career” on hold until years later when I landed a job as an electrical engineering technician.
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As an EE technician, everyday I would play around with different types of robotics or PLC’s. I soon found myself wanting to make my own (much more simple) robots and it seemed the perfect introductory way to go about that was buy getting myself an Arduino<\/a>.\u00a0 The community around Arduino boards is vast and very helpful. Just about anything you can think of making is possible and the tutorials are excellent. In no time I was able to get working robots up and running. As I progressed with my projects, I started looking at the source code just like I did back in the MySpace days. I learned that everything was running off C++ code – something I didn’t have the slightest inclination about. Regardless, I found myself tinkering with the code without any real idea of what I was doing. I would turn to C++ tutorials online for help, but felt I needed more structure and guidance to really progress and wrap my head around what I was looking at. Because of that, I had a busy enough life as it was so I put those projects on the back-burner but the possibilities of what I could do never really left my mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fast forward a few years later and I decided I wanted to take the plunge from the hardware side of robotics and building-out PLC’s to the software side. I did some research online and being that I had a degree in business already, it seemed OSU’s program provided me the best option to take that dream and turn it into a reality with their post-bacc program.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n That decision is one of the best moves that I’ve made. Now my eyes are open to a whole new world of what is possible through computer science and software development. Before, I was strictly focused on what it took to program robots or PLC’s. Now, I have a deep interest in everything from cyber security to app\/web development to A.I.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m excited to see what the future holds and am happy I was able to find a field that is interesting and fun at the same time! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have always fashioned myself as someone who has had an eye towards technology and an eagerness to mess around and tinker with that technology. As with a lot of people my age, I started by manipulating MySpace source code so that I could change fonts and background colors on my personal page. From there,… Continue reading What got me started.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ibachicha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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