About Me

Hi there! First and foremost, as the developer of QUÉtudes-info, I truly hope you've found this site useful, or that it will help you in the future. And before I get to introducing myself, I have a final reminder for you that even after reading through everything here on QUÉtudes-info, you should check the official sites and documents for the most accurate and up-to-date information.

And now, a bit about me. I myself was a high school student in Quebec when I started working on QUÉtudes-info (in sec 5 as of the 2021-22 school year), so hello to the parents and fellow students who are reading this right now!

CEGEP is a step that I had been researching and worrying about for a while, but this actually meant I understood CEGEP very thoroughly. I know firsthand that the process can be stressful, confusing, but also exciting, so I decided to combine my "experience" in this topic with my interests and skills to create a website about CEGEP. The idea with QUÉtudes-info is thus to gather information in one place (and hopefully save you from hours of searching all over the place just looking for one tiny piece of info), reduce stress over CEGEP, as well as reassure students and parents.

Now, on to my skills and interests. I absolutely love math, science, and really anything to do with technology and problem solving, so I wanted to try my hand at computer science and programming. Though I initially tried to learn coding through different websites, videos, and books on my own, I very quickly realized that I was getting nowhere with this method. So, the summer after sec 4, I made it my top priority to learn computer science (CS)—this time, by taking a free online course from Harvard University.

CS50x and Computer Science

I began CS50x's Introduction to Computer Science, a free Harvard course available on edX and their OpenCourseWare (both linked below and in the Resources section), in early July. I highly recommend CS50x for anyone interested in coding and computer science—it's nicely structured and provides you with a strong skill set that you'll find indispensable even beyond the course.

CS50 text over background of students attending Harvard CS50 lecture

Photo by Harvard University. Copyright by The President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2021.

The lectures were super engaging and informative, the labs and problem sets got extremely challenging at times, but I found it all fun and fascinating. Thanks to CS50x, I learned about computer science principles, became proficient in multiple programming languages (C, Python, SQL, JavaScript and more!) and got the confidence to build this site on my own. A huge thank-you to professor David Malan, Doug Lloyd, Brian Yu, and the entire CS50 team for making CS50x possible and available to the world—the course was life-changing for me, so thank you all.

Once I'd watched all the lectures and completed every lab and problem set, the last step was the final project. I really liked the idea of helping others better understand CEGEP, as well as sharing my knowledge on the subject with others, since I'd been doing research on the topic for such a long time. So I chose to create the QUÉtudes-info website as my final project (read more about how I made the site here). I'd also been thinking about a tool that allowed people to compare CEGEP programs side-by-side, and thanks to CS50x, I was actually able to make this tool myself (see the Program Comparison Tool).

I learned so much as I developed QUÉtudes-info, both about CEGEP and web development. Web programming, for me, combines creativity, logic and technology into one discipline—I love how it allows you to be artistic and mathematical/scientific at once. I'm also continuing my CS journey by learning more programming languages and tools.

And that's all I have to say about myself—if you're looking for the CS50x course, I've provided the links below in the Links part of this page. Thank you so much for visiting my site, and here's a final reminder in case you missed it earlier: I've worked and continue to work tirelessly to assure the correctness of the site's contents, but it is always best to check and/or double-check the official sites! I try to update QUÉtudes-info to the best of my ability, but with so much information from different institutions to keep track of, it's impossible to add and include every new update from every school or organization. I'll say it again here: always check and/or double-check the official sites for the most accurate and up-to-date information.