Hello! hows it going?
Life's going pretty good, how about you?
Im doing pretty good! The last film that I watched that made an impression on me. Thats a good question... I think the last film that I watched that I can remember fairly well is probably marvel movies, but I dont know if they made impressions on me.
I really liked A Wrinkle in Time. It might not have necessarily been the movie itself though. I watched it with a friend I hadn't  seen in a long time . You know, I haven't really seen any of the Marvel Movies.
You should check them out sometime, some of them have really cool Visual Effects! I like two types of movies. the ones with good stories and those with really cool effects that make the things that they are doing seem impossible
Are you more of a book reader or a movie watcher?
Ive heard of wrinkle in time but I have never watched it Im move of a movie watcher, how about you?
There's actually two movies out for A Wrinkle in Time. They are both good in different ways though.
Its just the fact that I can watch a movie in the time it takes me to read like 10 pages of a book. haha Oh, Ill have to check them out. Are they on Netflix by chance?
I'm not really sure which one I am. I really enjoy watching movies, but the mind can wander better in books. I am not the fastest reader either.
Oh, man my mind wanders too much while reading books. I guess thats a good thing, but I wander so much that sometimes the book doesnt even  make sense by the end. haha
I know the new one is on Netflix, but I don't know about the older one.
Oh, I guess Ill just have to check them out to see if the old one is. Do you have to watch them in order or does it not matter that much about order of the movies.
I know what you mean with it getting confusing. Sometimes I start a book and it takes me forever to finish one because I get caught up in other things, and then it might be months sometimes years before I finish that book. They're both the exact same stories with different visual takes on them.
Ya, that happens a lot. I like reading informational texts to learn something new. But generally I just find them on the internet. Ive read anything from drawing to coding
It's actually based off of the book. The book is part of a trilogy but the movies don't include any of the other books.
books.
Do you do a lot of coding? Or Drawing?
Oh, that makes sense, so I can watch the new one or the old one and it wouldnt make that big of a difference I like both Im actually doing computer science with an emphasis in animation
That's cool! That's usually what I look up on the internet too
Its kind of the best of both worlds for me Coding or drawing?
Both
Oh sweet! are you in computer science?
Yeah! I haven't taken too many classes at BYU yet, but I've spent quite some time coding.
Do you have a favorite language coding? I know it's a very basic language but I find html css and JavaScript really fun!
hmm. I'd definitely say that C++ is not my favorite language. It's hard to choose a favorite though. Java was the first language that I learned, so I'm most familiar with it, but I use Python more now, and for biology purposes, it's more useful. It's also a lot easier to read. More people are impressed if you can read java though.
Oh Java is pretty cool. I've had my ups and downs with c++. I feel pike it's good but just complicated Python is a very useful language. It's grown really fast over the years and now it is one of the most used coding languages. It's nuts how much it's used. They use python for A ton of server side stuff right?
My first year in Java was basically the worst experience that I can recall, but once I understood what was going on, it was much easier.
Oh, that makes sense. I feel like no matter what language your first one is it's just going to be pretty difficult
Yeah, I use it more for data analysis and getting through to the supercomputer
What major are you at BYU. Sounds like you do stuff with biology or something? But yet you have a ton of experience coding
You might be right. I think my computer science teacher thought he was using words that everyone understood, but I definitely didn't understand half of what he was saying. Bioinformatics. It's basically Computer Science integrated into Biology. What about you?
Ya that happens in like every one of my classes and it's super annoying. Haha Oh that's pretty cool! I didn't even know that was a thing. Biology is pretty cool. I just get confused all the time with all the vocabulary that they have. Somehow I know That computer science has that too but I understand them more for some reason
So are you a computer science major?
Ya. I'm also doing an emphasis in animation though It makes all the coding more fun when you can do something visual with it
It's interesting how I decided to go into the biology field. I wanted to go into the sciences but I didn't want to do chemistry like my brother and sister. So I chose biology.
Especially something moving. Like animation
I think being a straight up computer science major without a plan to apply it is kind of hard. What would you do with it?
Haha. That's a good way to choose your major. Just choose something that your family isn't already doing so that there's less competitiveness later There are a ton of applications for computer science but I personally want to work at some kind of animation studio or VFX studio like Lucas films or Pixar Both of those seem pretty fun to me! And they pay well
Yeah that sounds like a great plan. I think that a lot of people from BYU with computer science degrees with an emphasis on animation go into big movies like Pixar. or dreamwork.
Ya. There are quite a few. Some of them come from the fine arts animation too. I've just chosen I like the computer science side a bit more just because there is some thinking
The Giant Po Statue in the Talmage is a sign of that.
That I like to do with computers. They just intrigue me
There is definitely a lot of thinking involved in computer science. Every project is this giant puzzle that you have no idea what the final product is supposed to look like
Ya. There are a ton of pictures in the talmage that have signatures that have a similar vibe sorry, that was weird I like lost internet connection. Are you still there?
yeah. I'm still here.
Cool! sounds great! I completely agree that it seems like everything that is done in computer science is like a puzzle
Have you taken CS 235 yet?
Ya, Im taking it right now It seems pretty fun. Have you taken it?
Yeah. Nothing seems to be worse than the Iterator project.
Ya, the quicksort lab was a little bit of a trip. Are you in it right now too?
Literally everything in that class, everything I've done in any other class, has not been as bad as the iterator. No, I took it last semester.
Oh really, that iterator sounds like it must have been really hard. It doesnt seem to be as hard the way that our professor has put it He just told us that it is a fancy pointer, and thats pretty much all we have learned about it Haha
I didn't hate the sorting algorithms as and because I had already written their algorithms in high school but in Javascript.  I basically only had to convert the language You didn't write an iterator class?
oh, that makes sense. I had never really written them, but they seemed pretty easy other than the quicksort We wrote one but because we just knew that it was a pointer that could increment up a list, or vector or anything, it actually wasnt too hard Ignorance is bliss I guess. Being naive finally helped in my life!
Haha that's good for you I guess. Maybe part of it was that my professor was sick the week we did that lab and the TAs had to teach us.
Oh, that makes sense. I love the TA's but I also hate them. haha Also, have you had to take cs 224? I have found it so far to be the hardest class!
I don't have to take that class. That's programming in C right? I'm pretty sure it has one of the highest class drop percentiles in all of BYU
Ya, thats C with binary, hex and a lot of weird assembly. Its been pretty crazy because its so low level, that I just have a hard time figuring out what is going on Really? I didnt know that. I do know that like half the class is gone by now
yeah. My friend took that class, and she was totally in a support group to get through the class.
I think im going to need counseling after. Its really corrupted me. I dont even know whats real anymore. haha
Yeah, you probably do need counseling. My friend is one of the smartest people I know and she needed it.
Haha. Im actually reviewing for a test right now, and Im realizing that there are a ton of things that I need to brush up on
That's me in every class. Especially in Biology. Sometimes I'll get a list of vocabulary that we "should know" and I don't recognize most of the words
Haha. Ya, thats rough, I really hate trying to memorize things. I do decently well, with trying to think through things, but when it comes to memorization or just remembering something, im totally lost! haha
I'm surprisingly pretty good at memorizing. I actually think that's the only thing I'm good at.
Oh, that works. Its just hard to remember even what I had for lunch or dinner yesterday! Haha
well, those things aren't even important anyway.
haha, I think they are kind of important. They are important that they go in my mouth, just less important that I remember what they are. Speaking of food, im looking forward to food tonight, im beginning to get pretty hungry!
That is so true! I'm actually getting ready to eat now! I know it's kind of early, but that's when my family can get together.
Oh, that works. Im kind of jealous. Im going to have to wait till 7:30. Im eating with some of our ward family tonight at that time
Is that in conjunction with Family Home Evening?
Yup! We are going to one of the bishoprics house
I have no idea what I'm doing for family home evening. All I know is that I have to go to work at 8
Oh, thats ok. Where do you work?
I teach English.
Oh, thats pretty cool! Thats like the only language I know
That's not too bad. Most people understand English.
Do you also speak another language? Or just english. I can understand some languages, to just a certain extend, but I cant really speak anything other  than English Although, I think languages are really intriguing though
I speak Japanese fluently. I took French in high school but I'm not sure how proficient I really am. I used to know a lot more German but now I'm at the point that I can maybe read it and sometimes understand when someone else is taking to me. I'm learning Norwegian right now.
Holy Cow! you know a ton of languages. Like I said I really only know english, and barely at that I wonder if I even know english after talking to some people haha There was someone that I met in LA that could speak fluently like 7 languages!
Well you graduated high school so that must mean that you are descent in English.
Thats crazy to me! Thats a fair point. I did graduate! Haha, and I have gotten into BYU
I have a German penal that I've had since I was in seventh grade. She speaks about that much. But then again, Germans are crazy smart
Thats cool. I never really had a penpal or foreign exchange student or anything, but I think that would be a ton of fun to have friends from around the world The closest thing to that, is here at BYU when people are from around the world ya, germans are really smart! I have a french person in my group for CS and Ive found he is pretty smart Although, I dont know about all french, but he sure is!
Yeah that's so true. There are so many foreigners at BYU. I gotta go but thanks for chatting!