Five Minutes with... Gabriel Burns
You knew you were headed for a career in Computer Science when...
My sophomore year of high school I took an introductory C++ class just
as a fluke and ended up thoroughly enjoying it. I knew as soon as I took
that class that coding was something that I had a knack for and wanted to
keep doing. And then once I realized all of the potential career paths with
a Computer Science degree, I was sold.
What is your favorite class and why?
I would have to go with my
Project Based Calculus III class, not
necessarily because I'm a big Calculus fan, but because I had an amazing
professor for it. Professor DeLorenzo was very interested in making sure
that his students understood the material and did well in the class, and
it felt nice to be getting that kind of support from a professor.
One piece of advice I have for 1st year students is...
My advice would be to get involved. I tried out a bunch of groups my first
weeks here and actually ended up not liking quite a few of them, but the
ones that I stayed with have done me a lot of good. It's nice to know a lot
of people around campus so that when you walk up and down the quarter
mile everyday or start new classes there may be some familiar faces.
If you could have dinner with a famous computer
scientist, living or dead, who would you choose?
I have absolutely no idea. Sorry!
What is the most interesting project you have worked on,
either in a course or on the job?
Well, the only projects that I have really worked on so far are the projects
assigned in CS2, which doesn't leave many options for this question.
But of those two, I think that I greatly preferred working on the
Feeding
Frenzy Project because it was my first real experience working with
gui's and I discovered that I quite enjoy them. Plus, it was nice to have
a finished product that I could be proud of.
Where do you see yourself in ten years?
I have been thinking a lot about this lately and I am honestly not sure.
There are so many things that have interested and inspired me since
I started here at RIT, that I feel like there are just too many things that I
want to do with my life now. As far as programming though, I think
that I would prefer a job that works on maintenance of code, going back
into it and fixing bugs, adding new features, etc.
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