Learn with Butler

I find it very interesting that this is the topic for this weeks blog post considering I happened to have a zoom call with Professor Pfeil in which this topic came up (The meeting was for a different reason). It was insightful and while I don’t have great answers to the problems that I have…

On my first post I mentioned that I had no previous computer science experience to joining this program. The Capstone project is my first real experience in a development group and honestly, it was not a pleasant experience, but one in which I experienced a lot of learning on a lot of levels. This post…

This is suppose to be a post about the technologies we are using: What we like, what has been tough, what we’d do differently. Because we came into a project that was already started, we didnt get much choice in most of the technologies being used, so I want to take an approach that comes…

Jumping into an already existing project has been a learning experience. Getting a grasp on what is going on within a project takes time, much more time than I was expecting. This is also in part due working in languages that I am not comfortable with. The trial and error that comes to fixing problems…

There is a difference between work and school. Flexibility is one of those things. Getting sick between now and the last post makes that clear as day for me. I have no worked in the tech industry and I know its ripe with tight/unachievable deadlines, but school is the worst. There is no such thing…

Sometimes, even when you think you know, you don’t. In the few weeks since last post there has been some growing pains that I didn’t expect and some I did. Being in charge of a project for the first time, I expected that my lack of knowledge may cause some hiccups. And they have. That…

This is the start. From here on out you will ride along a journey of a father, husband and 34 year old nerd that decided to make a last minute decision to switch from Accounting and a year of schooling to Computer Science and 3 years of schooling. There is some context that I find…