My First Blog Post

Welcome to my blog! I’m Petri, a 21-year-old Finnish student and I’m currently studying at University of Oulu. I’m really passionate about software engineering, coding in general and other computer related stuff, which has led me to study information processing science.

At a young age, I was introduced to computers by few of my relatives who work in the field of IT. Ever since then, I’ve been hooked on playing video games. Eventually, I lost a bit of interest in playing the games and got more interested on how to make them. That lead me to start doing research on how computers work, what coding is and how software and especially video games are made. Nowadays, my interest has shifted more towards software, which is why I’m currently learning web development.

My skills in web development are still fairly limited, but I’m currently keen on learning web back end along with coding languages such as python, C# and php. My goal is to eventually become a good programmer (possibly a full stack developer) and land an interesting and meaningful job. As I mentioned earlier, I began coding at a moderately young age. Therefore, I’ve started and completed quite a few programming related projects.

Most memorable programming project for me was a project I did with my friend in 7th grade. Our IT teacher at the time was really passionate about computers as well, and saw that we were interested in learning more than just the mandatory stuff. He bought us an Arduino, a few sensors and some small electric motors to go with it. We built a fairly simple RC-car, that had the ability to change direction autonomously when it detected an object in front of it, similar to how Roombas work. My friend did all the soldering and stuff regarding electronics, while I was in charge of coding that beast. The code itself wasn’t too long, but the whole project was a fun learning experience for both of us.

We were able to complete the project, which felt like a massive accomplishment. Although I’ve also been involved in much more difficult projects, such as coding Android apps with Java, game programming with Unity and C#, web development with React & Javascript and automation with Python, the RC-project was the moment when I knew I wanted to do some sort of programming as a career.

After reading this post, you might’ve spotted some grammar or other spelling errors. Which is why my goal regarding English language is to become more adept writer. As my vocabulary expands and grammar becomes better, these blog posts will hopefully be easier and more enjoyable to read. Currently my blog is focused towards the ongoing English course, but after that the blog posts will be mainly about interesting and useful technical subjects that I learn in my daily struggle of becoming a good programmer.