Debra and other San Jose State University CS100/200W classmates, welcome to my blog.
A little info on how much technical experience I have in Computer Science is that I took an intro to Java class during my junior year at High School in which I had a pretty fun time in learning the basics of how to code in a high level language. Then after I graduated from High School I went to a community college where I decided that Computer Science was the major for me so I then I began taking computer science classes there which included unix where I got friendly with the command line; c where I struggled to understand the concepts of pointer for a while until it finally clicked; and finally assembly which gave me a huge appreciation for all the work that the higher level language takes care for us coders behind the scenes so that we can just start tackling a problem right away.
What I find exciting about this field is that with by coding I can make a program to automate tasks that would take me and other people 'forever' to do by hand without making any mistakes along the way.
And so a big problem that I believe I can tackle as a computer science is automating repetitive tasks for people which is something I have done recently by making a program for a site that I'm a administrator of to automatically generate posts for us with a simple drag and drop interface in which I learned a lot of new things.
Luke,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your first blog post. It was very exciting to read about your background and knowledge in programming.
For a first impression, the blog has a good flow and theme. I really like how you transitioned your experiences from the past to the present. Also, I like how you mentioned the programming languages that you have expertise in.
The one thing that caught my eye while reading your blog was the fact that you freely mentioned technical terms like ‘Unix’ and ‘C’. Since it is your introductory blog, you can mention what these terms are, i.e. software, programming languages etc. I would also advise you to link these terms to their websites to give your non-technical readers a brief idea of what you are talking about. The same can be done for your website that you mentioned in the last paragraph.
Secondly, I could easily pick out a lot of comma splices and various grammatical and tense errors. Also, some of your sentences need to be re-structured to make them more effective.
Another thing I would advise is to mention SJSU in your blog, probably in the sentence where you first mention your major.
To conclude, Good work on your first blog post and good luck for the rest of the semester.
Happy Blogging!
Thanks for the comment Tushar.
DeleteI will try to explain technical terms better in future posts for non-technical people, or make the term have a link attached to it so people can click on it to get more information which was something I really liked seeing on your own blog for our class.
About the comma splices, I'm going to assume that was the miss-use of semicolons in the second paragraph which I'll take care to refrain from using in the future until I get a better grip on when/how I should be using it.
And I have edited the first line of the post/the description of my blog to say this is for our class at SJSU.
And I also wish you good luck.