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+++ template = "index.html" title = "CJ Satnarine" +++ Hallo, I'm CJ! I'm a 20 year old from Kitchener, Ontario with dreams of being a graphics programmer/technical artist/game developer. I attended Software Engineering Technology at Conestoga College between September 2023 and August 2024. Turned out I didn't like software engineering, so I dropped out. Nowadays I'm just working on projects and trying to teach myself a few things.
I do not use generative AI in any of my work. At this moment, I do not plan on using generative AI in any of my work.
I like sharing and learning about things relating to my interests in maths, art, computer graphics, linguistics, history, tech, and programming.
Vaxandi Forritari
The phrase Vaxandi Forritari is Icelandic for learning programmer. I loved programming since I was 16, discovering my love for it in highschool when learning to make a game in the Unity game engine. I'm familiar with the following programming languages:
- C#: learnt it in 2021 for scripting in Unity
- Java: learnt it in Computer Science class in highschool, spent most of my time in Grades 11 and 12 using Java
- Processing: used it for making graphics in Media Arts class in highschool
- Python: learnt it for scripting with the Blender Python API, later used it to try out Pygame and Blender's game engine
- Arduino: this is C but I learnt this before learning C/C++, used it in Computer Engineering classes in highschool
- C/C++: used a bit of it for programming Mirobo UBMP4s in high school Computer Engineering classes, learnt way more in college when persuing software engineering
- 6808 Assembly: learnt it in college and I never want to touch it again
- HTML, CSS: learnt it to make this website
- JavaScript: learnt it to script in Three.js
- Lua: used to configure Neovim, used a bit with LÖVE
Aspiring Graphics Programmer
My admiration for computer graphics grew with my interests in programming and 3D animation. Finding out I can combine my love for programming and graphics changed me. Since July of 2024, I have been trying teaching myself graphics programming (it's difficult but I love it). Currently, I am teaching myself OpenGL and GLSL. Eventually, I hope to move onto something modern like Vulkan once I'm more experienced. I also hope to experiment more with HLSL in Unity and the Godot Shader Language in Godot.
Amateur Linguist
I'm really into languages. Since I was kid, I have loved learning about other cultures and traditions, including their languages. For a while, I was grinding Duolingo, but that felt more of a game than actually learning, so I stopped that and tried learning languages through other means. My native tongue is English, but I find interest in these languages:
- Deutsch: currently learning both Hochdeutsch and Schwiizerdütsch from my Swiss friends
- Español: learnt some Spanish when I was younger, not really good at it but I can barely hold a conversation
- Français: learnt a bit in school, but my French is really bad as I often confuse Parisian French with Swiss French
- Nederlands: learnt some when I was younger, I'm not as good as I used to be
- Dansk: an unfortunate event occured
- Íslenska: I know this cool Icelandic guy and the language is so cool because they still use þorn
- Norsk: Norwegian is interesting but I already know some Danish and I'm not sure if I want to learn Danish but less funny-sounding
- Lingua Latina: learnt a bit in school, pretty cool language
- ελληνικά: Greek is kinda cool, I wanna learn it in the future
- Русский: I have no interest in learning Russian but I am going to torture myself by learning Russian just to read Tolstoy's War and Peace its original language
- Suomi: my brother is learning Finnish so I might learn it as well for the funnies
- Davvisámegiella: I discovered Northern Sámi through music, and I think it's a cool language
- Kalaallisut: Greenlandic was also discovered through my music, I think it's also cool
Unfortunately, I do not think I'll be able to learn all of these languages. That's fine, I'm happy about learning as much as I can.
Wannabe Game Developer
I have had an interest in game development for as long as I have been learning to program. Throughout my time programming, I have used (and plan to use) a couple of game engines:
- Unity: this was where I learnt how to program in C#, and where most of my experience lies in terms of game engines (picked it up in 2021)
- Godot: learning Godot because I love FOSS, I use C# instead of GDScript for scripting (picked it up in 2025)
- UPBGE: tried out Blender's game engine for a few months but I wasn't a fan of scripting in Python so I ditched it
- GDevelop: yeah no
- LÖVE: tried it out but it was more of a playground than using it as an actual game engine
- Pygame: did a bit in highschool, but that's about it
- Kyzen: soon to be first beta tester of Kyzen 2D game engine
Adventuring Animator
While learning and falling in love with programming at age 16, I also fell in love with Blender. My introduction came from Media Arts class, where I initially learnt Blender for making assets for Unity. I fell in love with creating models and experimenting with shaders. The following two years of high school were spent developing my skills in the software. After graduating highschool, I stopped using the software to focus on software engineering for college for about two years. Now I hope to revisit this old passion of mine, and also venture into the unknown territory of digital art with Krita.
Music Enjoyer
I listen to a lot of music. Uh, what type of music? It's a complicated mess. The genres and languages of the music I listen to is all over the place. I hope to eventually learn how to make my own music for future animation and game development projects using LMMS.