During this OSU postbacc program, the courses primarily focused on Python. Yes, Python is one of the most popular programming languages right now and it has prepared for me my job interviews. However, after talking to software engineers and researching the web, I discovered that Java is actually the most popular programming language for backend… Continue reading First deployment
Journey to CS
My first bachelors degree was in Statistics. Before I started the program, I imagined it being full of theoretical classes with countless proofs homework. However, the program was more focused on the practical aspect of Statistics which became the starting point of my interest in programming. One of the first courses I had to take… Continue reading Journey to CS
Chinese Hot Pot
Some time last year, I was craving Chinese hot pot and decided to order it from a local restaurant. On their website, when I was entering my credit card information to make a payment, I saw this line under the payment section: “securely processed by stripe”. This piqued my interest and I Googled “Stripe”. Stripe… Continue reading Chinese Hot Pot
Fall Internship – Week 2
I started my Fall Internship at a local finance company as a software engineer intern last week (as mentioned in my previous blog post). This was a backend engineering position which was great because I had no real-life experience with backend engineering. I experienced a different work style and social culture for the companies I… Continue reading Fall Internship – Week 2
Fall Internship
I started my Fall Software Engineer Internship this week. It is at a local financial company doing backend engineering. Before this internship, I was unemployed for about a month and it was the longest one month of my life. During my unemployment month, I finally got the rest I needed. I was able to watch… Continue reading Fall Internship
No pain, no gain
My name is Sang Ok Suh. I’m currently taking the last class of the OSU post-bacc CS program, the class that’s forcing to me start this blog. I’ve always wanted to start a blog but I never really had the courage to do it, maybe because I’m not confident with my writing skills or maybe… Continue reading No pain, no gain