Hi, I'm Alex Overstreet

Welcome to my GitHub! Here you can check out some of the projects I've been working on.

I am currently a full-time student at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. In my spare time, I enjoy working on projects such as compilers, video games, and my personal website. Many of these can be found in my pinned repositories.

My passion is to create video games. I grew up making small games that I shared with my family and my friends at school. You could say that I was obsessed with the details, meaning I wanted to know everything about how video games worked. As I became a more experienced programmer, I started to really want to drill down into exactly how the computer was making my video games come to life. That's when I discovered the Handmade Hero project created by Casey Muratori. This project changed everything from me. I no longer needed to use a game engine to create my games, because Casey show us all how to fill every pixel by hand.

Now, I am learning how computers actually work by following Computer, Enhance!, a video substack by Casey on the low-level fundamentals of computers and performance-aware programming. If you want to know why your code is slow, and how you can make it faster, this series is for you.

That's all I have to say for now! Happy coding.

- Alex