Senior Capstone Project

Capstone Blog Post #1

Foresee Nothing in Your Journey

This blog is a small capture of my journey – my CS journey. A journey consists of your past, present, and future. Everyone knows their past and lives in the present. Personally speaking, how will I ever know what’s ahead of my life? The answer is I won’t know, but you can! Sort of. I lack the abilities to foresee my future. But I can do the opposite by jotting down these experiences, with the ability of sharing it with you. I invite you to this journey of mine where I will share my present-time experiences, interests, struggles, and successes. Take what you will and leave what you must. 

Becoming a senior at OSU with just one more year left, it still feels like I am just getting started. I have created a variety of projects, solidifying my learning and the ability to practice the things I have learned. Working a non-CS related job right now, I am hoping to better define my expertise’, after completing this Capstone project, along with various side projects I plan to make this last year. While I am not quite set on what I want to do after I graduate, nor can I tell someone my future job, I hope to continue to work on projects I enjoy which can funnel me to work and grow after graduating.

Through the coursework there have been plenty of projects I have enjoyed working on. In CS340, a partner and I created a full-stack application that allowed for administrative database CRUD operations. We learned about SQL and normalizing databases in this class, while having to extend our research outside of class to make the whole app work, Flask for example. I enjoyed this creating this project largely because it is an application found commonly in businesses over the web. It was very practical.

I want my capstone project to be practical. Not to say I don’t enjoy theoretical research and learning, diving into a career with projects that are practical seem more promising. My top choice for the Capstone project is the Cloud-Based Algorithmic Trading Strategies for Individual Investors. It is practical as it suggests certain trading strategies in the stock market. I myself enjoy in investing, and perhaps myself and others can use it to help our investing.