View source for Students with computer skills

Here's a place to let people know what, exactly, you can hack. (Or use.)

==Computer Languages==

===Assembly Language===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (kind of...)

[[Paul N. Stansifer '07]] (my claim to masculinity)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (I'd be the a5 register on the emulator because that one definitely doesn't work.)

[[Jing Cao]] now knows he should extend before division

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08slh Son Ho] (I make things crash)

[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Not good. Not good.

[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]

[[Sean Barker '09]] had flashbacks during Compilers.

===Bash===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (if only my [[Cowshell]] were so scriptable)

===Befunge===

Steve Winslow '04

[[Brent Yorgey]] '04

===C===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] 

[[Brent Yorgey]] '04

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]

[[Jing Cao]] Compiled his second C program with no syntax errors

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] 
Just compiled his 300th C program with 33 syntax errors

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (since dealing with pointers and manual memory management is so trivial, it's a good thing we have MPI to make C programming more difficult)

[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Hello world only

[[Andrew Triska '10]] writes the world's most complicated and boring text-based games.

[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]

===Haskell===

[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (the most beautiful language ever -- don't give me this Ruby crap)


[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] tentatively agrees

===Hypertalk===

[[Alan Cordova]] Booyah!

===Java===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dpr Daniel Rooney] (disgusting)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (shamefully well)

[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (I frickin' TEACH this language)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (not bad either.)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (no shame here)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] will always be a beginner in this language. Just don't get it.

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10arn Arjun Narayan] Will always be in love with this one.

[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]

===JavaScript===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (just a pinch)

[[Sean Barker '09]] wishes browsers adhered to a standard.

===LabVIEW===

Joe Shoer '06 (though he's ashamed to admit he knows such a stupid language)

Sam Clapp '06 (It is NOT a stupid language!  Three cheers for graphical programming!)

===LaTeX===

[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (too good for word processing)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (too poor for Word)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (really, what good is WYSIWYG?)

[[Diana Davis '07]] (infinitely superior to anything else)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (It's pretty frickin sweet)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle] (Offers TeX services for $10/hr.)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (Would like her chemistry reports to be TeX-ed, but alas, converting chemical structures from ChemDraw to .jpg on her Windows side and then switching into her Linux side where the Windows side is mounted and then converting .jpgs into the accepted TeX format is too many steps.  But if she ever decided aesthetics were worth everything and anything, she'd be all up ons for chem reports TeX-ed.)


[[Aidan Finley '04]] spent a week teaching it to himself during his thesis crunch, which indirectly contributed to a case of sleep deprivation and a subsequent fall in Sawyer Library. This in turn produced a leg wound which required hospitalization during Senior Week.

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] Used to be in the league but have since defected to using Lyx: the Wysiwyg Latex editor.

[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Can barely survive it.

sunmi yang '08 has found the new love of her life in TeX and Beamer.  Some even call TeX her abusive boyfriend.

[[Rahul Shah]] Can TeX his Math homework when he needs to.

[[Jeff Marsceill '08]]

===Lisp===

(append (cons '[[Brent Yorgey]] (cons '04
(cons '[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] '07)))
[[Arjun Narayan]])

===Matlab===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
(greatest language ever for quick visual programming)

===Mathematica===

[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (is too a real language)

[[Joe Shoer '06]] (it's my thesis, and I can do more with it than the math nerds can)

[[Laura Effinger-Dean '06]] (I make pretty pictures for my thesis!)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates '06] (Pretty spirals!  Ooh!)

[[Diana Davis '07]] (I'll isoperimeterize you!)

Any physics major worth their weight in problem sets

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
(a must-learn for any physics major)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio]
(a must-learn for any CS major also)

Math majors can do it too.

sunmi yang '08 (it's my math thesis, so there, Joe)

===Objective C===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (yay for Cocoa!)

===PARI/GP===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates '06] (For a number theoretic software called [http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ PARI]; similar to C)

===Perl===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06cks Kai Steverson] (competent)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (wizardly)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] (kind of)

[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (JAPH)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (well enough to know i despise it)

===PHP===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07yfh Young Hahn] (godly)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] (sort of)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] (also knows what the P stands for)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (When really desperate and focused.)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rb Ronit Bhattacharyya] (kinda...but I know what all three letters stand for)

[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Also knows what all three letters stand for. And all three. And all three. And all three...

[[Sean Barker '09]] also knows what the three letters used to stand for.

===PL/SQL===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (a terrible language)

===Python===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (the scripting language of choice)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
(the greatest language ever invented! If not the most useful)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rb Ronit Bhattacharyya] (it's okay, but it's no Ruby)

===R===

[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (it makes statistics fun!)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (needs to learn how to put his skills on his own line but is probably very capable at R)

[[Arjun Narayan '10]] But not as good as [[Aaron Schwartz]]

===Ruby===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (the scripting language of choice)

[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (the most beautiful language ever)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He]
(the language of convenience)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 Michael Gnozzio] (where's the strong type checking? the explicit variable declarations? what if I want a global constant?)

===WC3400 Microcode===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (well, at one point at least...)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (Short and slow microcode, like her short and slow self.)

Jing Cao Broke the phase 2 record

[[Arjun Narayan '10]] Broke the pass/fail barrier.

[[Sean Barker '09]] and [[Charles Cao '09]] broke 8 microinstructions per ASM instruction

===XML/XSLT/XPath/XQuery===

[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (hey, at least I'm not claiming CSS & HTML to be languages)

== Hardware ==

=== Breaking CPU chips ===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08slh Son Ho] (one victim hung on my door)

=== Peck-Typing ===

[[Jonathan Landsman]] (fast, loud, and blind.  has entertained friends)

==Software==

===ChemDraw===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (Don't make me clipware you.)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07whp Hazen Parsons]

===Microsoft Paint===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07spt Peter Tosirisuk] doesn't need your fancy "Pho-to-shop" razzmatazz.

===PowerPoint===

[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (godly)

===Adobe Photoshop===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (Has ridiculous photoshop skills and can do just about anything with a digital image given enough time)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07im Ines Major] (also has ridiculous skills)

[[Sean Hayes]] (Decent skills)

===AppleWorks===

[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (fears no page/margin/line spacing/font size requirement)

[[Jono Dowse '06]] (still uses it in drawing and painting mode. He is a 13-year Apple drawing veteran.)

[[Laurie Brink]] sort-of-'05 (disputes that this is actually a "computer skill," seeing as the charming thing about AppleWorks is that it's infinitely more user-friendly and intuitive than Microsoft Office)

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[[Toby Hall]].  w00t

[[Ted Wiles]] (Ted is an amazing hacker and programmer. It isn't uncommon for his digg.com articles to yield over 250 diggs in one day. He also is passionate about his art and has plans to do a thesis senior year that allows him to reinterpret famous art works completely through graphic design software. He is also very good at hacking.)