About
Dean Pearce
Hello I’m Dean Pearce, a 20 year old Computer Science student at Carleton University. I’m passionate about software development, and believe that the best ideas can come from the most obscure places. I got into programming at around the age of 9, about a year after we got our first computer. When I started programming, I knew enough to understand I knew nothing about programming, but pushed on learning, checking out books from the library, and mostly just having fun guessing at what to do. My first program was created soon after using nothing more than notepad and GCC (whatever that was 
). This exercise in near futility taught me some important lessons: keep at the problem, research, read, and guess. Most of all though, the important thing is to enjoy what you are doing, don’t be afraid to have fun. This has stuck with throughout the years and ultimately is what chose my career path to make what I have to do also what I like to do.
In terms of software development, I am more of a hobbyist programmer who likes to design demos, betas, prototypes and cool features. I can be quite impatient about waiting for things to load, so I try and keep speed and resource performance in check. I also do some occasional technical writing such as short papers (either technical or opinion) about technologies, I maintain my blog with mostly technical software releases now I’m on GitHub. What I’m working on right now as sort of a macro-project is the company I am trying to create, Studio Four Two, which will adventure into the world of augmented reality as a service software. Where this will go I am not certain yet, but its the ride that’s important.
After finishing my Computer Science undergraduate degree (along with a couple minors in Mathematics and Psychology), I hope to continue on to graduate level studies in Computer Science. I’ve been debating into what area of research that I would like to delve into as I’m interested in so many things 
. Originally things like artificial intelligence and parallel computing grabbed my imagination (and are what pulled me into the idea that I might want to do research in the first place), but now after experimenting with different areas, such as visual detection algorithms, web design, comparison algorithms and such, my interests have become much broader, but the one area that interests me the most is augmented reality. Not only is it an emerging area of research and development, but it has such far reaching possibilities into all those other areas of computer science. But I still have another year of undergraduate studies ahead of me, so I will explore and learn and see where things take me.
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