A little about me...

Hi stranger,
If you're reading this then I have either obviously conned you into reading my blog or you have stumbled into a dark and dangerous corner of the Internet that was never meant to see the light of day and clearly not meant for you...I'll leave that for you to decide.

But whilst I have your attention, I'd like to introduce you to my blog. No, this wont be a tumblr blog where I post junk (my own, others or rehashed internet images). This should aim to give you some insight into what the life of someone who is studying a Bachelor of Computer Science is like. Over the next... oh let's say forever... I'll give you more or less irregular updates on Uni life, assignments, new ideas and techniques that I learn on the way and maybe even some tutorials. If you're lucky, and read these blogs often enough, you may even start to add ellipses to the end of your statements... See what I did there?

So back to me, because let's face it, this is MY blog, not yours, go and get your own. My name is Tyler Haigh and I am studying a Bachelor of Computer Science at the University of Newcastle in... yep, you guessed it,  Newcastle, Australia. I've already completed my first year with a Distinction average so it's obvious I can bluff my way through things...

I began down the long road to Computer Scientist many years ago, when I was 14 and I was introduced to Game Maker. Whilst my early endeavors at game development were a flop, I soon started to grasp the basic concepts of the engine (if you would like to call it that) and I expanded my skill set to dabble in 3D games development and isometric games development(something that is fascinating, but my experience with it spawned a small hatred of developing such games). By the age of 16, I had graduated from the drag-and-drop interface and moved on to writing scripts.

When I was 17, I was urged to take Software Design and Development as a course and I excelled in it, learning far more techniques that I have ever imagines and got a taste for what real programming was like. Moving to Newcastle and attending the Uni here, I was exposed to even more programming concepts, particularly the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concept.

Since my early days of dragging-and-dropping actions in Game Maker, I have learned Visual Basic, Java, C++, C#, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and a range of other languages. Things can only look up from here!

Now that you have been brought up to speed on my life so far, continue reading for more adventures in the realm of software development...I really need to think of something better to call it. It just doesn't have the same ring to it as "Realm of Dark and Dangerous Secrets", which is also applicable.