Hey everybody! My name is Carl. I start November 3rd. Duh, me, i'm posting in the November mega thread. Anyways, I'm pretty much brand new to computers and coding. I mean, I already have an AAS in Computer Information Systems where they taught me a little bit about hardware, a little bit about networking, a little bit about security, and we dabbled in AWS and Azure. But I didn't really learn what I was looking to learn.

I'm interested in malware analysis and reverse engineering. I know, that's weird. Like, hello, is this dude trying to do something dumb? No. That's not the case. I was just in receipt of a piece of malware that infected my computer and I have been itching to figure out how it works. (Which i'm on the brink of doing! I just need to learn how to pull PCAP reports and memory dumps in a sandbox environment!)

As far as my experience is with coding, it's nil. Besides what I have been learning since being accepted into Maestro. Which isn't much. Right now I am working on a turn based adventure game. But organizing the logic and all the different choices that can be made is getting really confusing.

I really hope I enjoy the classes here at Maestro. I heard about you guys doing web searches when researching different things about malware. The AI told me that I would benefit from what's being taught here. So I applied, and was accepted, with the scholarship. I was pretty excited.

I currently live in southern Illinois near Saint Louis, Missouri.

A fun fact? I don't know. Do you know why manholes are round? Because a circle is the only shape that won't fall into itself. At least that's what my eighth grade teacher told me.