Hello all and welcome to my personal blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My name is John Naeder and I am an OSU student currently living in New Jersey. I am 34 and have spent most of my life as a musician and an audio engineer before turning my focus to computer science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My computer science journey started through video games. At one point in my musical career, I got really interested in making music and sound effects for video games. I really enjoyed it, something about the dynamic and non-linear aspect of video game music really intrigued me. I first started putting my music into blank Unity demo games, but I eventually ran out of those. So I then took a few Unity\/C# courses on Udemy so I could make my own small games. It turned out I enjoyed making the game just as much as I enjoyed making the music for it. I went down a wormhole learning all about game development and basic programming concepts. I did some work with VR, but spent most of my time making 2D games for game jams and finding a whole new way to be creative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the Covid pandemic I decided I finally wanted to pursue a bachelor’s degree. I felt programming was something that I wanted to learn properly, and it was a degree that might actually land me a decent job (audio engineering definitely wasn’t). So in the summer of 2021 I started my journey at OSU. I\u2019ve loved pretty much all of my classes, and have learned a ton. I have also met a lot of really interesting people from all over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While still being a student, I\u2019ve been able to apply my new skills at my current job. I work for a for-profit school for audio engineering in New York city. I\u2019ve been working in the tech department, but I recently started talking to the one guy in the company that writes Python scripts. He writes code that integrates a lot of different services we use, and automates a lot of manual tasks. He\u2019s let me help him write some of this code and it has given me a lot of experience in writing production ready code that solves business problems, and experience working with code with other people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m looking forward to gaining more experience in this class working with a larger group on a much bigger project. I am excited for the next few terms!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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