Preston Corless

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I am Preston Corless. I like to code 👨‍💻, do gymnastics 🤸, and play the guitar 🎸! But not all at the same time! 😉

I am an Eagle Scout, a former competitive gymnast, and a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I graduated from the International Academy of Macomb in 2020 and then served a two-year mission for my church in 🇸🇻 El Salvador, and I am currently attending BYU-Idaho, majoring in Software Engineering.

I have had an interest in programming since I was about 12, when I began to learn how to create games for the NES in 6502 assembly. I finally finished my first game about 3 years later, and then moved on to other languages. Since then, I have developed a love of coding. I have learned HTML5 + JavaScript and Python since then, and spent a lot of time experimenting in other languages, too!

I am from Detroit, Michigan, currently residing in Rexburg, Idaho. I have recently been involved in some of BYU-Idaho's software-related events and organizations, including taking first place in its Fall 2022 Hackathon.

Computer Languages

HTML5 LogoI taught myself HTML throughout middle school and highschool, but didn't do much with it until I learned JavaScript. I also have taken courses in college on the language.
Experience: Educational, Personal
Projects: Gamedev Springboard, HTML5 Golf
ASM LogoI taught myself 6502 Assembly while in middle school, and I used it to make games for the NES, a game console from the '80s!
Experience: Personal
Projects: Simplistic, Super Rex Dash
JavaScript LogoI taught myself JavaScript in the summer of 2019 to get into web and game development. I quickly found a liking for it, and I used it for a long time as my language of choice!
Experience: Personal
Projects: Multiplayer Snake, Platformer, Raycaster, Snake Evolved, Yeet Ball
Python LogoI took up Python at first on my own, but also my classes at BYU-Idaho gave me some academic experience in the language as well!
Experience: Educational, Personal
Projects: Home Care Analysis, Py-Raycaster
C LogoI started learning C for a Computer Systems course, but have since taken other courses at school in the language! I have also continued to personally refine my knowledge of it while developing personal projects.
Experience: Educational, Personal
Projects: BrainFetch, Killer Boxes
SQL LogoI learned SQL as part of my Computer Science major at BYU-Idaho in the Fall of 2022, and later used SQLite in a mobile development job!
Experience: Educational, Professional
Kotlin LogoI learned Kotlin for an internship in mobile app development during the winter of 2023! I really loved how it introduced me to object-oriented programming.
Experience: Professional
Clojure LogoI learned Clojure through my Computer Science major at BYU-Idaho, as part of my functional programming certificate. Learning Clojure and exploring the code-as-data paradigm piqued my interest in learning functional programming!
Experience: Educational
C# LogoI learned C# through my Computer Science major at BYU-Idaho. I built off of the knowledge I gained while learning Kotlin in order to improve my mastery of the language.
Experience: Educational
Erlang LogoI learned Erlang through my Computer Science major at BYU-Idaho. To up my mastery of Erlang, I rewrote some of my side projects in it.
Experience: Educational
Dart LogoMy team learned Flutter and Dart for BYU-Idaho's Fall 2023 Hackathon for our submission, which took first place in its category!
Experience: Personal
Projects: Neighborhood Nexus
Rust LogoI taught myself Rust for the reference implementation of my Cairn project's code interpreter. I chose Rust because I wanted to learn more about good memory management practices and because the functional programming ideology is something that I am personally very interested in.
Experience: Personal
Projects: Cairn

Technologies

TuxI have many consecutive years of using various distributions of Linux as my daily OS of choice on my desktops, and I love it! Through the years, I have familiarized myself richly with Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora Linux, and some of their derivatives.
Experience: Personal
Git LogoI have gotten well-acquainted with how Git works and its features as I learned more about software development.
Experience: Educational, Personal, Professional
Flutter LogoMy team learned Flutter and Dart for BYU-Idaho's Fall 2023 Hackathon for our submission, which took first place in its category!
Experience: Personal
Projects: Neighborhood Nexus
Vim LogoI taught myself the Vim motions and now use Neovim as my editor of choice!
Experience: Personal

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