Wow!!! My computer history goes back to when I was around the age of 8 or 9 years old. My mom bought my first apple computer. I honestly do not remember the name of it, but it was so OLD. I noticed myself putting the computer together with out reading the instructions on how to do so. Then the next thing you notice I was typing with out looking at the keyboard. I can't remember exactly how things got started but it was amazing. I remember my mom enrolling me to this program at Cardinal Stritch for a reading program. During our "free time" we were able to use computers. I was in the 6th grade when I joined this program. The instructors let us use the computers to play games. I always wanted to play Mavis beacon, ha! That's so funny to me because it sounds so old. The teacher noticed how fast I was typing and wanted to show others. She did so and I'm happy that she was amazed with me because I noticed my passion for computers as well. With her motivation I kept going.
In middle school I took all the keyboarding classes and did well in them. I passed with flying colors. Next I was accepted into Heritage Christian School, and I continue with my computer classes. Java was my favorite class even though it was hard. I enjoyed publishing programs and making things work, even though I hated the programming part. I dislike programming!
In college I received my bachelors degree in Computer science. Again that was a lot of programming, but I found a little liking for it. The professor made it fun and interesting for me. While taking college courses I noticed that the computers has change dramastically. I love it though. I love troubleshooting and fixing computers. I also like teaching others about computers and how to use them. It changes how I play and work. I can do things more easier and faster now. Even adding on usb flash drives for computers are very helpful now. I remember the floppy disks and I still have some of them with my old work from high school on them, ha! Now we have touch screen computers, you can speak to the computer and have it type your work for you. There's a lot of other things the computer can do, I love it too.
I love that you to look back to the games we played on computers when we were younger and laugh at what we thought was "cool!" It was the same for me only getting to use the computers at schools and those were limited to what we could do. I also think it is great that you took the time for a computer science major, and are now following it up with MEIT. It show that you really do want to share the knowledge you have with others and you are taking the right steps to do it. Kuddos!
ReplyDeleteI agree about the old games we used to play at school. What used to be a big deal is now something a kid these days would get bored with in a minute. Keyboarding wasn't a required class at my schools, so I never really learned how to "properly" type.....some I'm sure you could beat me in a speed contest! :)
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