About
Why the ByteBaker?
Because computer science is a lot like cooking. You need the right ingredients and utensils, the proper recipes and experience and a certain amount of daring and imagination to make things work right. In both cases you can create things which are fine, beautiful works of art which make the world a better place or horrible convoluted messes which really shouldn’t be allowed to exist. I really can’t cook, so I thought I might as well write about computer technology, what it is, how it’s evolving, how to make it better and how we can use it.
About Me
My nane is Shrutarshi Basu and I’m a student of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Lafayette College. My first ever programming experience was with a bit of BASIC in 2001, but I didn’t really do anything serious until 2003 when I started with Java (yes, I know, I started late). I’m currently teaching myself more Java and Python while occasionally peeking into Scheme and Assembly language/C. Over the past few years I’ve come to realize that I like working reasonably close to the hardware while UIs and GUI-centric apps aren’t my cup of tea. That’s part of the reason why I’m doing Electrical Engineering as well as computer science.
I’ve been blogging on and off, since about 2005 (more off than on), and in the process have moved back and forth between Blogger and WordPress. None of my many starts ever lasted long, primarily because I never really had anything very interesting to blog about. That is starting to change now with me actually doing real work with computers, rather than just playing around. I’m hoping that I will be able to keep this blog as a record of my changing perceptions of computer technology and my reactions to the new things that I encounter as part of my learning experience.
