Meet the COMP2521 Team!

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Lecturer

Sim Mautner

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What's your current Special Interest?

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In my free time I'm also learning to cook more yummy food (recipes welcome), and how to put my things away in logical places so I can find them when I need them.

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Course Admin

Kevin Luxa

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Course Admin

Ethan Brown

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How regular is your sleep schedule?

Thanks to Outlook's scheduled emails feature, extremely regular as far as everyone else knows...

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Tutor

Nick Liu

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Any advice for your students?

Study hard, make the most out of us tutors (we're here to help!!) and have fun :).

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Tutor

Patrick Galea

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Got any life advice?

In programming terms:

Go and C the print("Hello World") && for i in 1.. {
    let explore:string = 'Opportunities';
    String make = "Memories";
    const eat = "Yummy Food";
    std::string alwaysHave = "FUN!";
}
Bonus marks (unofficial) if you can figure out the 8 programming languages I reference, and what food I am eating :))

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Tutor

Nila Riahi

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How did the program die?

It was executed.

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Tutor

Sankalpa Tripathee

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What is the strangest thing you've cooked?

A goldfish. No Questions

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Tutor

Frank Jia

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What dog breed would you be?

A border-collie.

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Tutor

Amanda Liu

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If you could have an unlimited supply of one thing, what would it be?

Up&Go Choc Ice!

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Tutor

Gordon Huang

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What's your favourite drink?

A home-made lactose-free milk tea with 35% oat milk, 25% soy milk, 25% almond milk, 15% rice milk, black tea and a tablespoon of coconut cream, adjust milk ratios to your liking, cheers! 🥂

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Tutor

Alex Brown

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What are your favourite pasttimes?

Making coffee and game engines

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Tutor

Madhav Kumar

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What is something every Sydneysider should know about?

There are a tonne of really awesome national parks in and around Sydney that you can do fun hikes in! A lot of them are near the city and a lot of them are even accessible by public transport – get a group of people together and go if you haven't before!

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Tutor

Blake Morris

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What's on your desk?

A Zelda Game and Watch and a receipt printer that prints out all the emails I get

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Tutor

Thomas Liang

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What's your favourite album?

A Night At The Symphony, by Laufey!

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Tutor

Kane Walter

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What's one career you wish you could have?

I love sports so my ultimate career would be professional basketball or tennis player. I'm into endurance training at the moment so doing triathlons professionally would be pretty sweet as well.

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Lab Assistant

Miguel Guthridge

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How many musical instruments do you play?

yes

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Lab Assistant

Hayton Lam

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Why do you do law?

Because I like to suffer. Oh, and I like to argue with people... allegedly :3

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Tutor

Kevin Luong

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If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life what would it be?

Hotpot.

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Tutor

Josh Lim

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What is your favourite orange vegetable?

Carrots

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Tutor

Franco Reyes

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What are your most used emojis?

💀, 👍, 😔

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Tutor

Matthew Perry

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Question: Why was the computer cold?
Answer: It left its Windows open!
Question: Why was the computer always tired when it got home?
Answer: Because it had a hard drive!
Question: Why was the computer a great musician?
Answer: Because its memory was always RAM-packed with notes!

Question: Why did the tutor use ChatGPT to generate programming puns for the C programming class?
Answer: Because he wanted to add a "printf"-ectly funny punchline to every lesson!

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Tutor

Vivian Wang

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What's a fun fact about you?

I have voluntary nystagmus which means I can vibrate/wobble my eyeballs (it's also what I use everytime as a fun fact)

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Tutor

Tay Leung

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CrossAngles or Notangles?

CrossAngles SLAYYYYYYYY 🔥 also the guy who made it is so cool - he's at Moore College now 🫶🏼

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Tutor

Michelle Wong

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What's a shower thought you've had recently?

The people you'll ever possibly connect most with in your entire life, could never meet you properly if you spoke different languages.

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Tutor

Ryan Berlee

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What are you overthinking right now?

What answer I should put here.

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Tutor

Kaiqi Liang

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Can you reverse a linked list?

I hope so

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Tutor

Felix Cao

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What TV show are you currently watching?

I'm currently watching Total Drama: World Tour. I'm trying to bringing back all my primary school nostalgia and I find it so intriguing how they made up all these fun personalities for a cartoon reality show.

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Tutor

Abby Carungay

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Why do you look so tired?

I stay up until 2am drawing art far too often

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Lab Assistant

Cameron McGowan

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Do you prefer working from home or at university?

I find working from home can be more efficient in terms of saving a tiring commute, but it's nice to get outside the house and see other humans as well, so I like a balance of both.

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Lab Assistant

Nic Furst

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What do you like to do most in your free time?

I love Travel, Hiking, and all things Motorsport!

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Lab Assistant

Daniel Lin

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What animal do you most look like?

A monkey...

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Lab Assistant

Callum Berry

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What is your number one bucket list destination?

The top of my bucket list at the moment would be a scuba diving trip to Raja Ampat.

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Lab Assistant

Harry Zhang

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Where are you in your photo?

I'm in Shimo-Kitazawa, the place where my favourite anime, Bocchi the Rock is set!

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Lab Assistant

Yash Khandelwal

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Where is your dream place to work from?

A ski chalet nestled in the heart of the wilderness.

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Lab Assistant

Martin Knezevic

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Where did you go on your most recent holiday?

Darwin