CompSci
108 - Spring 2005
Aaron
Wise
Tampa, FL
I have had a
computer in the house
ever since I can remember. The first was a Commodore 64
(originally purchased for my older brother) which I fell in love
with. On my beloved C64, I wrote my first computer programs,
in
the superbly structured language known as BASIC:
10 PRINT "AARON RULES"
20 GOTO 10
Additionally, the machine had some of the greatest games made for it of
all time (Maniac Mansion, Mail Order Monsters, Champions of
Krynn). Amazingly enough, this computer is still hooked up
and
working, and I use it whenever I feel able to handle 5 minute loading
times at the beginning of my games (fastdrive my butt!).
Since my (beloved) C64, I have owned a succession of DOS (and then
Windows) based PC's. I also dual-boot Linux, but I don't use
it
much because it can't boot my games. Thankfully, I have been
altogether successful in avoiding the one-button-mouse plague known as
the Mac (which also can't boot my games...). My best
programming
experience was coding a game in C++ (complete with graphics, sound and
a GUI) when I was supposed to be listening to lectures in CompSci class
at high school. My worst was attempting a moderately complex
OO
program in C++ which ended in failure due to the damnable things known
as linking errors. As for what I plan to do with CS, I know I
want to become a researcher, I just don't quite know in what.
System Design
KWIC
OOLALA
XOOGA
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