Daniel West

Knights Do That

English - July 26, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MB
Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: Darin Edwards

Next Episode: Sea Turtle Research and Marine Biology

Daniel West is a third-year computer science student in the Burnett Honors College and is a current member of the UCF programming team, along with teammates Sharon Barak and Seba Villalobos, which is well known around the world for consistently placing in the North America championships and world finals. This August UCF will be hosting the North America championship of the 2021 international collegiate programming contest, the oldest and most prestigious collegiate programming competition.

In this episode, we talk about how West originally got into programming, what it means to have the ICPC 2021 North American championship hosted at UCF and what makes a good team able to compete at this national stage.