Graduating from university with a first-class honours

I'm excited to announce that as of today, my undergraduate degree results have been released by Royal Holloway, University of London. My final grade was 73%, culminating in a First-Class Honours (70%+).

I can partially attribute my result to the fact that I had made computer science and software engineering into my hobby near the beginning of my studies. I wanted to use my university experience to push myself in new ways - like learning game development in the Godot Engine in just a single day for the university hackathon! I've discovered so many new languages, tools and frameworks that I've loved working in, including Docker, Neovim, Go, CI/CD Actions and Godot Engine, and the projects that I've made using them have been an absolute blast.

"We are what we repeatedly do, therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit"
-- Aristotle

I'd like to extend my thanks all of those who have helped and supported me along my academic journey.

• Francisco Ferreira 👨‍🏫 - who supervised my final year project, and provided mentoring and helpful advice throughout.
• Joshua Sawyer 🌟 - former Computing Society president who has helped encouraged me to think critically and broaden my perspective on technical problem-solving and has helped me with. Recently, he helped me evaluate compression and encoding algorithms to scale Pixel to a large amount of concurrent users.
• Thunder - has helped me extensively with Linux, Docker, Neovim, Hyprland, reverse proxy config and technical support - which has probably saved me a significant amount of hours. I'm usually bouncing new ideas for projects off of him quite frequently.
• Mr. P 👨‍🏫 - my secondary school and sixth form CS teacher. He would always challenge my viewpoints and coding technique, and would take time to guide me with software projects outside of the curriculum.
• ThePrimeagen ⌨️📺 - after exploring his content during my first year of university, I had begun to spend more time coding outside of lectures and assignments than in them. I discovered my new favourite programming language - Go - primarily through his videos and streams.

I'm planning to spend the next few weeks diving into new projects, picking up new skills and seeking out new opportunities.

Until next time! 🎓 👋