I'll start with the basics. I am 18 years young. I graduated from Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu (FYI, many people don't know where this is; it's about 15 minutes down I-10 west from Baytown). In high school, I wasn't the jock everyone talked about or the prom king everyone loved. I was a band 'nerd' who liked to spend his lunches reading or doing homework rather than talking with friends. On multiple occasions I found myself eating lunch in the library because I felt like I was wasting time.
As I said, I was in the band. I played percussion; more specifically, the snare drum on drum line. I am a Texas Music Scholar and received multiple rewards throughout my band career, from 6th grade through 12th. I attended region band every year and made region band twice. I made ones on my solos my Junior and Senior year, therefore qualifying me for state competition. My ensemble made ones all four years of high school, qualifying us for state competition. All in all, I probably visited Austin about 6 or 7 times during high school. I can sightread bass clef and treble clef and I write my own music on the piano. I had no formal piano training. Basically, I taught myself much of what I know. If you call me a drummer who bangs on things, I will never talk to you again. I am a musician.
Since I was about 13, I've been extremely interested in computer science. I've been interested in computers since I was born. I began learning (rather trying to learn) the programming language C++. I got past the basics of computer programming and then switched to a new language, REBOL. It wasn't much better. I even tried COBOL. Not fun. I dabbled a little in Visual Basic and even created an application for my school that allowed easy download of the network printers. Then, I moved on to Java. Now, Java actually proved to be the language I understood the most. It just made sense in my head. Many of you probably have heard of the computer game Minecraft. It was written in Java by Notch (Markus Persson). I finally found out how to decompile the code and examine the intricate workings of a computer game. Then, when I entered into college, I was required to take a computer class. So, I took Fundamentals of Computer Programming 1. Now, even though I already now much on the fundamental aspects of programming, this class introduces a new language to me: Python. Python is coming to me even easier than Java did. We will have to wait and see what the future holds for my computer career.
I guess I forgot to mention, I currently attend Barbers Hill University (aka Lee College) to take care of my basics so that I can transfer to University of Houston for my Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering. I am still having an internal debate on whether I want to do software or hardware engineering.
Umm, I guess I could tell you I have 2 brothers (one biological, one half) and 2 sisters (one step, one half). I have two dogs, a Pomeranian named Ozzie and a Chihuahua named Tori. Anyway, that's pretty much my entire story in a nutshell, with an emphasis on music and computers because that's really the only things I do.
