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I started college as a psychology major and only took a computer science course for giggles. By the end of my first semester of college I knew I had found my calling.
In 2006, a buddy of mine told me that there was a game he wanted to mod. He approached me because he knew I had some talent for Java. I had to scratch my head when he showed me a sample script though. The language looked weird... there was no semicolon at the end of each line and the for loops looked like nothing I had ever seen. Apparently, people were writing scripts for this 3D space dogfighting game in a humble language I had never heard of, Python. After a little reading, I fell in love with the language.
One day, my professor and mentor found me reading a book on Python in one of the school's computer labs. We started talking and I showed him some basic programs I had been working on. He told me that he was changing the entry Computer Science class from Java to Python. Given that I was the only student in the school who knew the language, he offered me a job as a teaching assistant. I did that for two years and loved every moment of it. I have a passion for teaching.
I started college as a psychology major and only took a computer science course for giggles. By the end of my first semester of college I knew I had found my calling.
In 2006, a buddy of mine told me that there was a game he wanted to mod. He approached me because he knew I had some talent for Java. I had to scratch my head when he showed me a sample script though. The language looked weird... there was no semicolon at the end of each line and the for loops looked like nothing I had ever seen. Apparently, people were writing scripts for this 3D space dogfighting game in a humble language I had never heard of, Python. After a little reading, I fell in love with the language.
One day, my professor and mentor found me reading a book on Python in one of the school's computer labs. We started talking and I showed him some basic programs I had been working on. He told me that he was changing the entry Computer Science class from Java to Python. Given that I was the only student in the school who knew the language, he offered me a job as a teaching assistant. I did that for two years and loved every moment of it. I have a passion for teaching.
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I'm Brandon. I'm 24, working as a Systems Software Engineer in San Francisco at Sony on the Playstation Team.
I switch between using Ruby, Javascript, Python, and Scala at work. Primarily I'm a Rails / Tools developer, but I've begun to experiment with Big Data solutions using Spark with Scala and Python.
While Ruby is my first love, I find that Python and Scala both are far more suited currently to the Data Science and Big Data problem sets in the world today.
I'm Brandon. I'm 24, working as a Systems Software Engineer in San Francisco at Sony on the Playstation Team.
I switch between using Ruby, Javascript, Python, and Scala at work. Primarily I'm a Rails / Tools developer, but I've begun to experiment with Big Data solutions using Spark with Scala and Python.
While Ruby is my first love, I find that Python and Scala both are far more suited currently to the Data Science and Big Data problem sets in the world today.
This post has been edited by macosxnerd101: 07 June 2015 - 08:37 AM
Reason for edit:: added Lemur as a Forum Leader
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I no longer work in telecommunications and I'm a Senior Python Engineer now! Woohooo!!!
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