Instagram Post from CSCI230 Data Structures and Algorithms - we created a program to solve a puzzle from any given starting point! Toy programs like this are only the beginning, I'm sure... I just love the puzzle-solving aspect of it.
Welcome to my blog! As a side note, I never really wanted to keep a blog - sometimes I believe everyone in the world talks too much and listens too little... But here we are! Thank you, Dr. Bowring for forcing all of us CSCI 362 students out of our shells and letting us loose on the internet. Let us hope someone out there enjoys our musings over Software Engineering.
My name is Megan Landau - I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to two incredibly intelligent, yet computer illiterate doctors. This is perhaps why I did not find out how much I enjoyed programming until about two years ago when I looked up a YouTube video on how to make the Flappy Bird app game and got lost in the coding.
I have always obsessed over puzzles and games - I learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube when I was 12 during an 18-hour flight home to South Africa. Programming was not offered in my tiny high school in Jackson, Wyoming, and so, when I went to college, I decided to try Pre-Medicine first at Boston University and then pursued my passion for design at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City. Feeling something amiss, I left college for a few years, travelled, became a PADI Rescue Diver and then a certified Emergency Medical Technician, and found myself in Charleston, SC, wanting to go back to school again.
A combination of the persuasive Flappy Bird video, many intriguing CodeCademy tutorials, and a few dubious yet encouraging conversations with my parents led me to the College of Charleston.
Since starting last fall, I have worked as a Student Programmer at the Medical University of South Carolina, worked on a team to develop a virtual reality game, and am now working developing apps to control drone flight by voice commands. Some of my work is here if you want to take a look. The more I learn, the more I think I would like to go into the Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or Software Engineering fields of Computer Science.
But that's enough for now! Sorry for the long introduction.