The CS bucket list

As you may have seen in "My Career and My Ambition, pt. 1",  I've really enjoyed the opportunity at my work to investigate things on a deep level, such as how encodings affect the size of data as well as what characters are supported. It's got me asking a lot of questions about what the data around every day really is, on a fundamental level. How many people, technologically/musically literate or not, understand how MP3 files are structured? I don't know the answer to that question, but I would like to be one of those who does understand. So I decided to create a list of small programs I could create to systematically acquire this kind of information, a sort of "CS bucket list" (mediocre title definite tentative). Here are some of the things I'd be interested in studying:

• Raw MP3 processing
• Raw image processing
• QR code generation
• Creating an Assembly script
• Neural Network applications 
• File Compression
• Live sensing

 So, these kind of applications will be a lot of the content of my future posts-- and in no particular order. I've already got a foot in the door studying 6502 and other flavors of assembly through tutorials and TIS-100. This will just be something in my free time too, so don't expect any kind of schedule. I'll gradually update on my progress from time to time.