Hello everyone and welcome back for Week 8! This being the final post in my blog got me to thinking about the final steps in my journey. I wanted to say something profound and perhaps review how my journey has culminated in some end destination. But then I realized that the journey in computer science…

Hello everyone and welcome back for Week 7! There is a saying that goes “learn one, do one, teach one” and I have found this phrase to be true when it comes to the art of education. The concept is that one must first learn and be taught how to do a task. Then, they…

Hello everyone and welcome back for Week 6! I thought I’d switch gears from discussing the inspiration behind my CS journey and my groups Capstone project to discuss something different—the internship that I have coming up this summer! It is amazing to see my hard work culminate into this internship. Amid preparing for interview and…

Hello Everyone and welcome back for Week 5! This week, the module explorations in CS467 have us discussing the user-interface and prototyping. This is a super relevant topic as we delve into designing the front-end of our application. As mentioned, our application project provides the user with the ability to store their basic medical information,…

Hello Everyone and welcome back for Week 4! Okay, now for the fun part! My team and I had agreed on an idea for a mobile application, and we were excited to build this concept because we felt it fulfilled a need we had observed firsthand through our prior work experiences. However, we were not…

Hello Everyone and welcome back for Week 3! At the end of last week, I had discussed my observations and shortcomings of technology within the healthcare sector. I specifically voiced frustration about the medical record keeping. I felt that with the advances in smartphones, file sharing, privacy, and data management, that there should be a…

Hello Everyone and welcome back for week 2! At the end of week one, I saw myself accepted to Oregon State University’s online post-baccalaureate computer science program and poised for a pivot from a career in medicine to a career in technology. When making the decision to enter the program, I knew that I would…

Hello Everyone and welcome to my first blog post! Since the title of this Blog is “Nina’s Software Journey,” I thought I might start out this week with discussing how my journey came to be. How does one decide to take the plunge into computers and software in a post-baccalaureate program, after already obtaining an…