John Pena

603 Watts St.
Durham, NC
jcp20 at duke dot edu

About Me
I'm a senior
I'm from Connecticut
I'm a CS/Philosophy major
I'm taking CS 108, CS 150, Phil 208S, and a thesis seminar

Some stuff I'm involved in
Duke Graphics Research
OLPC@Duke
The Chronicle

Computer Science Autobiography
I think I started using computers around age 5. My dad borrowed a Compaq from work and taught me some DOS basics. I mostly used it to play games. My favorites were Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and Duke Nukem. Later on I started playing Doom and Quake and I think thats when I really became interested in programming. I was fascinated by those games so much that I wanted to make my own.
On a daily basis I use a computer to keep track of my life, to do some programming, to play video games, and to save the world. My favorite operating system is one with a Unix shell, but Windows is cool too. My best compsci experience was helping build a First Person Shooter in CS124. My worst experience was making a MIPS compiler for CS 104.

NanoGoogle here.
Fennec here.
Vooga here.