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The Harvard CS50x course is really interesting. One assignment is to create a program in C that prompts the user for a message and then outputs the text in binary with dark and light emojis representing 0 and 1, respectively. It’s fun to play around and create different “messages”. I wanted to translate my solution code from C to python, so thats what I did here. The CS50 course provides a C library, CS50, which includes some types that aren’t native to C, like string and get_string()....

After spending some time programming in C I wanted to explore the world of assembly. Naturally, I went to YouTube and searched for assembly code. I found some excellent resources like, Fireship’s Assembly Language in 100 Seconds. I decided to install Netwide Assembler (NASM), an assembler for the x86 CPU architecture. I’m on a mac with an intel chip. To install the assembler I used HomeBrew: brew install nasm Below is the code for hello world....

Software Developer / Software Quality Assurance As a Software Developer/Tester with over 6 years of experience in commercial settings and academia, I have successfully contributed to the quality assurance and software development efforts across various cross-functional teams. My expertise lies in supporting Engineering teams, ensuring top-notch quality and adherence to industry standards. With a strong background in QA methodologies, I am adept at driving effective testing processes and collaborating with diverse stakeholders to deliver high-quality software products....

My job out of college was working on the UCSC Genome Browser QA team. One of the first things I had to do was get comfortable with the Born again shell (bash). I found it really helpful to have a quiver of one-liners for repetitive tasks. For example, I can create a dummy data file with 1000 lines: for((i=1;i<=1000; i++)); do echo "data_point_$i" >> data_munging.txt; done Let’s say I needed to add each entry in an SQL query (for some reason) I’d need to remove the new lines and add a comma as a separator with each data_point in single quotes....