Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Welcome

Hello All,

My name is Deven Jarvis. I am currently a Junior at the University of West Florida, majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Computer Engineering. You'll find my few true passions in the computer science field strong, but my interests and skills to be many. I already have a website outlining my interests and skills, but thought it would be even better to have an actual blog where I can fluidly express my views within the field, share the skills I have developed, and update the world with progress on projects I am currently working on.

As far as passions go, I can generally sum them up within two fields: embedded software development, and large scale computations. Embedded systems are something I am highly interested in, and hope one day to work with developing software for embedded systems within the aviation industry (either passenger, or unmanned aircrafts). Due to this, you'll most likely find that many of my posts here are related to lower-level programming in C or Assembly languages, as I delve deeper into multi-threading, firmware development, and other hardware focused endeavors. As for my interest in large scale computations, this varies from computationally-intensive simulation development, to large data creation, manipulation, and analysis. Currently my focus is on a project involving said simulation interests, but am planning to move towards a big-data analysis project following completion of my simulation library.

As skills and interests are concerned, I have done a little bit of a lot of things. These include game programming, databasing (Oracle SQL work), web design (XHTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript), graphics programming, cryptography, computational mathematics, etc. Though my passions align with the two above topics, I am always eager to learn and try new things, or revisit old ones in a new way. I am hoping to write a few how-to's and such on here between project updates, and will most likely include various different skill sets that I find under-represented on current free online resources.

I claim at no point to be the best at anything. When you believe you're the best, you leave yourself no room to grow better. However, I do believe in my abilities, and my perseverance to learn and adapt to any and all new situations I find myself in. I hope to prove that so in the upcoming months as I update this blog. Next time I will give official introductions to my two current projects (I try to maintain two at any given time, within various, differing disciplines), and then follow that post with a tutorial of sorts.

Until then,
DevenJ

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