Who is David Mazza?
A coder, designer, freethinker, atheist, liberal, and a computer science major in the class of 2012 at SUNY Stony Brook University.
Who am I? Glad you asked! You may have noticed a small description of me in your title bar. Of course that is nothing more than my current status on facebook. It's pulled directly from facebook and generated on my server before the page gets to you, where it is displayed as plain text, as if I keep it up to date by hand. But if you already figured that out, then you might already understand a little bit about who I am, and why I created a self-titled website.
I've been making websites and php back-ends for businesses, non-profit organizations, teams, and myself for many years. The internet is probably responsible for pulling me into computer science, but I've created a lot more than just websites. I spent 6 years as the lead programmer for a FIRST robotics team, where we used good old C. In the summer of 2007 I spent about 10 weeks from 9-5 every day on my first computer science research project and Intel STS submission with Dr. Himanshu Gupta at Stony Brook. I mostly used Visual C# for that project. In high school I was able to take a class in Visual Basic and Java [AP].
I've been an atheist for about as long if not longer than I've known HTML. I was raised Catholic, but religious education only opened my eyes to the fallacies of religion, and the horrible corruption of the Catholic Church. I'm not one of those people that have a deeply rooted hatred for organized religion, but rather I am simply a freethinker. I'd rather not be trapped in any one mode of thought or doctrine. Religion leaves no room for science and curiosity, because everything can be so simplistically answered by God. The beauty of science is that we don't have all the answers yet. The day that we have all the answers is the day that science ceases to exist.
Recently I've become an advocate for my rights in the first amendment. I actively seek to correct those to violate it. The United States was founded upon freedom of speech and separation of church and state. No one has ever immigrated to America so that they could own a gun and stop gays from marrying. Too many self-proclaimed "patriotic" people have long forgotten this. If you're intrigued, you can find me on the sites listed on the right.
