Hey there everyone. I'm Andrew Brown. This is my fourth year here at NCSU.
I am of course a Computer Science student, but I also have a minor in Physics.
Hey there everyone. I'm Andrew Brown. This is my fourth year here at NCSU.
I am of course a Computer Science student, but I also have a minor in Physics.
At the very bottom is my schedule, keep scrolling to find more things about me. To the right is a current(ish) picture. I really like this one, which should say something about my personality...
People who feel the need to contact me can email at ambrown4@ncsu.edu.
Here are some interesting things to know about me, since everyone asked.
I went to High School at Southeast Raleigh High School. SRHS is a technology inclined school and offers lots of cool programs for geeks like me. One of the things I got involved in was the Advanced Web Dev Team. There we worked as a team, divided up projects and tasks, and developed the school's website as well as several other projects for teachers and other clients.
It was a very fun experience, we learned to code websites to standards compliance using the W3 Validator, used php and javascript mixed with HTML, and also gained experience working with a group and delegating tasks.
I still retain the policy of coding web pages to standards. As you can verify with the icon at the very bottom of this page, it is indeed valid XHTML. Additionally, I coded it all myself by hand with my favorite editor: VIM. (anyone else use it? It's great if you can get past the learning curve!)
If anyone has GPG and wants to send me something encrypted:
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I'm going to come right out and say it. I'm not wild about Java. I have my reasons that I won't elaborate here for risk of this turning into a rant. Suffice it to say, I avoid it wherever possible. It's not really that bad, but there are so many other languages out there that are so much easier to use, I don't see much reason to stick with Java.
Personally, I prefer Python. The syntax is elegant, it's very easy to get a working program running quickly, and you can use it as a full blown object oriented language with all the features you'd expect, or just as a quick script. It's really quite awesome.
Here is my schedule for this semester, done complete with boxes that are actually to scale. Anyone else find that annoying when the schedules PackTraks prints out show some 50 minute classes longer than others? Or some 75 minute classes the same length as the 50 minute ones? I hate that.
Computer Science Related, I'm in CSC 326 Software Engineering (of course), CSC 379 Ethics in Computing... should be fun, and also CSC 405 Computer Security, which so far looks like it'll be really exciting.
On another note. The following was actually generated with my very own Schedule Generator. (Nobody hammer that site too hard or advertise it everywhere please, I don't want physics to get mad at me) What this does is take a list of classes you're taking, query the open section inquiry for sections and time, and enumerates all possible schedules and presents them in a list for you to choose. It's very handy when one has a lot of choices for each course to scroll through and pick the best one. Go ahead, try it out!
This was just done as a side project, not for any class or anything. Mostly to see if I could, but I do find it useful once a semester right around registration time. I can't take credit for the idea though, so Ricky Patel if you've found this, I don't mean to step on your toes or anything if you also have a working scheduler.