Toasty's Blog

It's been almost a full year since I made the decision to pursue computer science. I'm still not very far along, but I've made progress nonetheless. Some progress is still progess, right? That's what they say, anyway. I'm hoping to turn this into a career over the next year. In order to do that, I must work with intention and intensity. By the end of the summer I plan to have a general direction in mind. Front end? SWE? Project Manager? UI/UX designer? I don't know, but I do aim to complete CS50x and have a few small projects built. I'm hoping that I will be able to glean a better idea of where I want to go once I get through that. Today, I made a blog, what's up for tomorrow?

I'm planning to make a brick breaker game in JS, creatively titled Brik Breakr. I'll update back here as I make progress on it.

We're trying something crazy today:

Can we write a program to make a computer learn how to play (and improve at) the classic game, Snake? Our goal for today is to simply write a playable, command-line version of Snake. We plan to implement this with Python. Let's go!

We had a fun time messing around in the Chrome Music Lab today during my band classes. Here's a neat little arrangement that came out of it: