I'm Miro, a 19 year old computer science student at KU Leuven in Kortrijk, Belgium. I've been programming since 7 years old. That means I have 12 years experience, right? ;)
Education
In middle school I studied the most difficult STEM/math course available.
In my last year, I started my computer science studies early, by taking up a CICD and a DOTNET course at HoGent while finishing my last year of middle school. To make time for this, I was enrolled in an initiative at my school called
accentwerking
An initiative which had a trial run at my school. It allowed high-performing and special needs students to self-study compulsory courses and use the gained time for a variety of other learning activities. You still had to complete all exams and assignments as normal. Additionally, participants were closely monitored, and underperforming in the skipped courses meant disqualification. At the end of the year you were required to give a presentation showing your extracurricular work. I participated for multiple years, skipping physics and english classes. In the two years prior to my last, I made a networked multiplayer video game, and a realtime AI voice chat companion (before the release of chatgpt).
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Currently, I am in the last year of my 3 year academic computer science bachelor at KU Leuven KULAK.
Aside from traditional schooling, I also self-teach myself many languages and tools, both because it is a hobby of mine, but also to supplement my mostly theoretical schooling for professional endeavours.
Accomplishments
second place
A competition organised by volunteers from various universities and colleges since 2009. People compete in teams of three to solve as many programming problems as possible in three hours. Your final score is decided based on a hidden test suite.
Flemish Programming Competition
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Click to view official scoresheet, I was on team aW1hZ2luZSBkZWNvZGluZw0K. (don't ask)
A mathematics competition with three rounds. The three best finalists are selected to represent Belgium in the IMO, generally regarded as the most prestigious mathematical competition in the world.
Flemish Math Olympiad
(≈top 0.5%) (
Click to view official archive. My name can be found under 'Prijswinnaars 20ste JWO/Aanmoedigingsprijs' near the bottom.