Aaron Godwood
About Me
I am a CS & Mathematics student at the University of Bath. I like to build things - most of which can be found on the projects page, though sometimes the creative urge extends further. This site is one of them.
Whilst I study in Bath, I was born in Leicester and spent most of my life living in a village in Cambridgeshire. One thing from Leicester did stick with me for better or worse: my support for Leicester City, at the time of writing this we are currently in the relgation zone of the Championship but I remain optimistic and 2016 taught us to believe anything is possible.
Outside of my studies I have a wide range of interests, I am a big runner and enjoy the gym. My real love is for cooking and I love to experiment and come up with my own recipes.
I also have a strong passion for music but unfortunately I have no musical talent myself. I am an avid reader and I have a wide range of tastes when it comes to books. Although I don't have that much love for non-fiction, the right topics or biography can be the exception.
Where it all Started
My passion for programming began from a young age, recommended to me by my dad and my year 4 teacher Mr Waite, I started it as an extracurricular activity to push me a bit further. I started out with a Scratch game about finding the North Star on a boat and using it to navigate. This was inspired by my love of space and astronomy which was in full fruition at the time. I was very proud of that game and showed it off to my class at school, even though looking back I received a lot of help from my dad. I was particularly proud when we received a comment from a stranger on Scratch complimenting the game and concept.
I have looked for the game on Scratch recently but it seems to have been deleted, it would have been a nice relic to look back on but I guess it is lost to time.
From there I moved onto Python and again with lots of help from my dad I created a times tables quiz game. This proved to be very useful at the time as I was in the process of learning my times tables and it was more far engaging to practice them on something I had made myself.
As a result of this my teachers seemed to think I was some sort of programming prodigy and I remeber them asking me to teach a class on html programming which I had never done. Foolishly I agreed, probably not really understanding what HTML was myself and I remember an hour before the lesson having to teach myself exactly what I was about to teach 30 of my classmates. Fortunately, no one else in the class seemed to have seen HTML before either so no one pushed me beyond my understanding of how to make text different colours and add in images or a counter button and I got away with it, somehow even convicing my teachers that I knew what I was doing.
I have no idea how I managed to blag my way through that but it taught me a valuable lesson in faking it until you make it, and it hopefully sparked an interest in programming for some of my classmates so they could go on to explore it more and realise what a fraud I was.