I decided to study Computer Science
because I had the background
I particularly always liked robots
My interest started probably as
most young boys' interests start
in computer science is when they get their first
computer
for me i've always had an
interest in computers from a
young age and it's one of those things that
I wasn't too sure what I wanted to go into
and computer science obviously offers a wide diverse range
of opportunities you can look into
I was about 16
making A Level choices I decided I really
wanted to make video games which
for instance now I don't want to do but it
did spark my interest in the subject
once I actually came to university I
realised there's a lot more to computer
science than just games development
I did lots of different
types of work experience to work out what I
really wanted to do
I was always good at
mathematics and computer science at school
I was into gaming as a kid
I think the thing
with computer science is that it entrenches
so many different fields that we all go in our life
It really opened my eyes to see what computing could be used for
in the real world and make
people's jobs a lot more efficient
I can go
into so many things with computer science
it was trying to choose between maths and computing
and got really into programming
The sixth form I went to had an A Level in
computing and from there you know my favourite subject
I started reading science fiction books and
movies and the AI part of it all very
interested me
my inspiration actually
came from one of my classmates he used
microcontrollers to make a little simple
toy car move by the means of a joystick
or a telephone and I was like wow if you can do
this how many others things can you do
I wouldn't say I'm a stereotypical computer
scientist I don't think that stereotypical
computer scientist is actually a thing
