John Teeter’s CS467 Capstone Blog

We made it!  We are in the last class of the program.

I’m going to reflect a bit on my personal ride up to this point in the program.

Boy has it been a relatively quick ride for me.  I started in the Winter Term of 2020.  So I will have taken 2 years to complete the whole program.  I know there are a lot of people that have taken 3-4 years go get through all of the classes by taking them 1 at a time.  That process seems like it might be nice, but I did the program as a full time student and needed to “get back to paying work” as quickly as I could.  

The Pandemic also complicated things.  When I made my decision I was going to go full time and not try to work/study, I was expecting to have most of the time during the day with my kids in school.  And then the schools shut down.  SO.  Then I got to be full time teacher for myself, and my kids.  It was a bit of a trial and I would not want to do it again but overall it all worked out.

I am also glad I got through the program pretty fast because it tied together some of the concepts you learn early with some of the concepts you learn later in the courses pretty well.  Memory allocation and how it all “really” works was pretty helpful having assembly and 344 “pretty close” together.  Same time, there were some bigger concepts that are still just barely sinking in.  Not to mention the ability to really get comfortable with a single language.  I am pretty good at a lot of them, but none of them I would say are my “native” language that I feel super comfortable with.  I hope that once I get in industry, I won’t be switching languages every 2-3 months.  

Overall, I have been able to find work that will actually start this quarter and have enjoyed everything I have learned and everyone I have had a chance to learn from.  I look forward to putting it all into practice now!

John