User:Damakable

My user name is an anagram. I have no online home, not yet. Some day soon when I have the time I do plan on building one, as I am an aspiring programmer and lately have been building web applications. Yes, I've been learning Ruby on Rails. No, I don't want to base my career on that. I still have ambition to do more than just make websites, even fancy websites full of Flash and JavaScript. Lately I've been thinking about computer simulations, models, things like math software, engineering software... perhaps educational in nature. If I want to pursue these things (and narrow down my goals) I need to study harder than I have been in school. Sometimes (and sometimes more often) my formal education feels like a sham. I either sleep through the course and do fine or I work my ass off and still fail. But when it's over and I've made it out the other side I hope to find enough work to manage my student debt and spend the rest of my money, not on fancy things but on textbooks and time to study. And probably a few video games. (They are research, I swear.)

As an undergrad I'm not exactly qualified but I know a thing or two and I hope I can fill in some of the blanks in 'course material' on Wikiversity as I peruse my notes from years past and travel through my remaining terms. I suppose I could also create learning materials for those younger folk who must be as appalled as I was by the surreal and arbitrary nature of modern primary/secondary public education, at least in North America. I'd love to help out, of course I need to dedicate some time to any project and for now I am rather busy with Calculus. But I will join the discussion and contribute where I can.