Charlie who?

I did it, I started a blog. And I’ve gotta say, these first blog posts are pretty hard. There is the tried and true “about me” blog post, and there is the tactic of just writing a blog post like it’s a second post. But the fact of the matter is, this isn’t a second blog post. There may be people reading this that have no clue who I am or why they should care. So I’m gonna have to follow the trend.

Who the heck is Charlie Sears?

Short answer: I am, and I’m awesome. Long answer: I’m the guy in the picture on the right. I’m a 20 year old Software Engineering major at Michigan Tech and interning at SRT Solutions. At school the majority of my code is Java/C++ and at work I do a lot of .Net development with ASP.NET and C#. When I’m just working on personal projects I use C# (and love LINQ, life without is overrated). I’m also VERY interested in learning F# (saw Dustin Campbell give a talk at CodeMash and was fascinated) and will be starting some research into that soon. I’m a pretty big video game player too, TF2, CS:S, AoC, WoW are all my addictions right now. I’ve been into computers since I was very little, though the first piece of electronics that fascinated me was the garage door opener. I’ve been coding since I was 11, C was my first language.

Ok, I know who you are now. Why the heck should I care?

Short answer: I’m awesome, I’ve said it before. Long answer: Get my name out there, and I’m sure there are people who care about the same things I do. Plus I have great hair, I promise not to blog TOO much about that. I’ve got my opinions, everyone does, and I think there are at least…4-5 people out there (that’s a scientific number, I promise) who care about what I have to say. I’m still in school and learning a ton so I don’t know if a lot of what I have to say will be amazing news to anyone. But I like to stay on the front of my learning and will be posting about things I find interesting. I won’t always post about software development.

Ok, you still have me, but I’m a bit confused about what you will talk about.

I won’t tell you I’m awesome here, you know that by now. But I’m going to talk about things that interest me and involve computers. New language features I find out about, new hardware, video games, life as an intern/student. For the most part Ill focus on things that plug in and how we make them do what we want, and how they don’t do what we want. I use computers in every part of my life to store media, for fun, for

More posts to come soon. Let me know what you think.