NEPTUN Biography



LUKE TAYLOR, ESP Teacher




Major: CS+Design

College/Employer: NEU

Year of Graduation: 2025

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Past Classes

  (Look at the class archive for more.)


👀😲👍 - Emoji: How They Work and Why They Break Everything in Splash Fall 2024
Ever wanted to learn about how emoji work behind the scenes? This class might be for you. Come learn about Unicode, an international standard for text that includes thousands of characters including the simple letter "a", the large and mysterious "𒈙" and even "👍". We'll also learn about why emoji and Unicode tend to break everything, from invisible usernames to text messages that crash your phone.


The Entire Internet in an Hour! in Splash Fall 2024
Come learn about what makes the internet tick, from websites, to apps, to games! We'll learn about how computers talk to each other, how websites work, and to be honest probably far too many acronyms* – a cheat sheet will be included :). We'll also learn about some of the cybersecurity side. What does it actually mean for someone to know your IP address? How do people "hack" websites? Come and find out! *Including but not limited to: IP, HTML/CSS/JS, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, BGP, URLs, DDoS, XSRF, and XSS.


The Entire Internet in an Hour! in Splash Spring 2024
Come learn about what makes the internet tick, from websites, to apps, to games! We'll learn about how computers talk to each other, how websites work, and to be honest probably far too many acronyms* – a cheat sheet will be included :). We'll also learn about some of the cybersecurity side. What does it actually mean for someone to know your IP address? How do people "hack" websites? Come and find out! *Including but not limited to: IP, HTML/CSS/JS, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, BGP, URLs, DDoS, XSRF, and XSS.


👀😲👍 - Emoji: How They Work and Why They Break Everything in Splash Spring 2024
Ever wanted to learn about how those silly little pictures on your phone work?. Come learn about Unicode, an international standard for text that includes thousands of characters from the simple letter "a", to the large and mysterious "𒈙", and even "👍". We'll also learn about why emoji and Unicode tend to break everything, from invisible usernames to text messages that crash your phone.


The Entire Internet in an Hour! in Splash Fall 2023
Come learn about what makes the internet tick, from websites, to apps, to games! We'll learn about how computers talk to each other, how websites work, and to be honest probably far too many acronyms* – a cheat sheet will be included :). We'll also learn about some of the cybersecurity side. What does it actually mean for someone to know your IP address? How do people "hack" websites? Come and find out! *Including but not limited to: IP, HTML/CSS/JS, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, BGP, URLs, DDoS, XSRF, and XSS.


👀😲👍 - Emoji: How They Work and Why They Break Everything in Splash Fall 2023
Ever wanted to learn about how those silly little pictures on your phone work?. Come learn about Unicode, an international standard for text that includes thousands of characters from the simple letter "a", to the large and mysterious "𒈙", and even "👍". We'll also learn about why emoji and Unicode tend to break everything, from invisible usernames to text messages that crash your phone.


The Entire Internet in an Hour! in Splash Spring 2023
Come learn about what makes the internet tick, from websites, to apps, to games! We'll learn about how computers talk to each other, how websites work, and to be honest probably far too many acronyms* – a cheat sheet will be included :). We'll also learn about some of the cybersecurity side. What does it actually mean for someone to know your IP address? How do people "hack" websites? Come and find out! *Including but not limited to: IP, HTML/CSS/JS, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, BGP, URLs, DDoS, XSRF, and XSS.


👀😲👍 - Emoji: How They Work and Why They Break Everything in Splash Fall 2022
Ever wanted to learn about how emoji work behind the scenes? This class might be for you. Come learn about Unicode, an international standard for text that includes thousands of characters including the simple letter "a", the large and mysterious "𒈙" and even "👍". We'll also learn about why emoji and Unicode tend to break everything, from invisible usernames to text messages that crash your phone.


👀😲👍 - Emoji: How They Work and Why They Break Everything in Splash Spring 2022
Ever wanted to learn about how emoji work behind the scenes? This class might be for you. Come learn about Unicode, an international standard for text that includes thousands of characters including the simple letter "a", the large and mysterious "𒈙" and even "👍". We'll also learn about why emoji and Unicode tend to break everything, from invisible usernames to text messages that crash your phone.