I first got interested into computers was back in 2003, when my parents bought me and my brother’s first desktop computer. I often saw my brother sitting hours long in front of the computer, tinkering and playing with various settings. At that time, however, I never got as enthusiastic into computers as my brother was. I never thought anything special about computer hardware and software, as it seem liked a given, that it works.
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The first time I really started to wonder how computers work was years later when I opened up one of my old computers and checking the guts of the computer. My little 9 year old brain was astonished how many cables there were connecting everything to a board, and how the computer was just actually a board. I tried taking it apart to see more, but was never able to assemble the ribbon cables back into a functional computer, which made me quite sad at that time.
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On the otherside of hardware, I got a small taste of computer coding was a few years earlier where online fourms were still the rage. While I was posting something, I fiddle around with some words that magically turns your posts into various styles, and formats. At that time I didn’t know it was HTML, but I loved figuring out the patterns of what each word did and how combining them would make or break my post format.
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That was pretty much all my experience with tinkering with computer hardware and software before going to high school. After I got into high school, I took a computer science class which taught Microsoft Visual Basics. I never really got the gist of the class, so I was really just crusing by and learning only the basics and nothing more.
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Fast forward to graduating from college, I started working in the insurance sector, and I was not very enthusiastic about my job, calling and selling things, it was a nightmare of a job to do. It was around this time I really started to get more interested into computer hardware and software. I started out building my first PC, it was a very fun and a stressful experience. After this, I bought some Python beginners coding guides and started coding the simple games and applications on the guides. Now I think about it, I was really glad I started out with Python instead of C\/C++. Python was really easy to understand and intuative for the beginner me. I learned a lot of the basics of coding and such through Python, without having to deal with more complex issues, such as memory allocation, that would have probably killed my enthusiasim.
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After that I wanted to have a formal education in computer science, thus I applied for the OSU post-bacc degree and here I am studying for just over an year, and graduating just around the corner.
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Over the past year or so, I’ve enjoyed the program at OSU. This will be my last semester here at OSU. I am currently taking CS467, Capstone and CS492, Mobile development, classes. Soon, I’ll be looking for my first job in the industry, and hoping to start my career as a software engineer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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