Personal Introduction

First entry: A personal introduction

Hello reader, this is my first entry for my Compiler Design's course blog. My name is Valentín Ochoa, I am currently 23 years old and I am an aspiring computer scientist.

I have programmed since my late days of high school and I have always found it to be something that is quite thrilling. I had the luck to be a CS student at the University of Toronto for a year.

Some of my hobbies include playing the piano, scuba diving, rapid chess and video games.

I picked off the piano since I was a little kid, my parents kind of pressured me into it, but I really love that they did so. I nearly turned into the National Conservatory to pursue a career as a pianist when I was 16, but I thought that piano would be in a better place as my hobby. 

I picked off scuba diving because my father is a big ocean lover and we frequently do fishing trips together, I brought up scuba diving and he decided to pick up a course for us so we get a license. Even though we don't do it as frequently, as a diver you get to see some views that are out of this world.

I frequently watch horror movies with my best friend. At the beginning we did it to have a laugh as she solely screamed for the cheapest jump-scare in the movie theater. However, we have found a couple of films that are worth watching for more than making fun of my friend. 

As for the course, I'd like to learn how to build a compiler so I can make some silly or creative programming language for entertainment. Lately I have had some interest in a couple esoteric languages such as Piet, ArnoldC or Emojicode. Maybe after taking the course I can try to build something alike.