From ME to CS Journey

 I worked with Rahim, Jess, and Saria to review the Markov assignment.  Honestly, I just started coding right away, just going through the hw prompt, but did notice that some methods depended on others so I just worked through each. Everyone else seemed to be more methodical approach than my just do it approach.  In particular Jess started work on methods that did not depend on other methods.  Saria, did more planning upfront to understand how the data flows.  If I were to approach this assignment differently than I would probably would understand how the data will flow through each method and see what the dependencies are.  According to my classmates, my code seemed to follow the Google guidelines very well.

The histogram hw was a fun little project that I enjoyed doing.  The sorting portion was the most difficult and everyone mostly wrote the code the same way.   The sorting code was a struggle since I had to remember how I did it from years ago!  I'm impressed with how IntelliJ does all the autogeneration, which saves so much typing!  I remember having to write all that from scratch.  

 Did some codingBat practice with was a fun refresher to java.  Looking up examples of Map help refresh my memory.  I haven't done too much of the lambda functions in the past but I do like the style of them.  Reminds me of the loops you can do in Python, so it's something I'll use more in the future. 

 The final research video planning was quite difficult to gather all our thoughts and share those with each other.  Rahim was instrumental is gathering our thoughts and creating stock footage to use for the video.  The time frame in particular is difficult.  There might be easier ways to collaborate using cloud tools online but I'm not too familiar with them.   I do enjoy learning about presentation skills as this is something that has been challenging for me in the past.  Currently, I do have to present technical data and information to numerous technical review boards, so that has helped me explain my thought process and ensure I'm saying accurate information!

Looking at the Capstone presentations I think developing a game would be the most enjoyable for me.  Especially something physics oriented, like a planet/satellite orbit calculator.  All I need is a little project to entice me to learn orbital mechanics :).   I think any type of game I'd like to pursue.  Other ideas I've thought about are a simulation type game either in stock trading, or economic type game.   Teammates Goals: Enjoyed reading through everyone's career plan as everyone is in a different boat with their own unique approach to achieving their goals.  It's very inspiring to be in the same group with these very motivated individuals!  Saria's Rahim 's Jess 's Looking to pursue graduate schools, where I'd prefer to be at the forefront of innovation.  I've been an engineer for 10 years now and I don't feel like I'm working in a field/industry where science and engineering principles merge and go hand in hand.  Some areas o...

 Part One: Set Your Educational Goals I'd like to focus on developing an excellent portfolio of projects to show case my programming and creative problem solving skills.  How that goal is judged will depend if I can change my career from mechanical engineering to programming! Part Two: Set Your Career Goals I'd like to have a software oriented role, which can be in a variety of fields, but my main goals would be in flight/physics simulation modeling and/or thermal simulation modeling.  Either developing the models themselves or the software that engineers use to solve these types of issues. Part Three: In 18 months, I think I'd do really well, maybe in 70-80% percentile.  I'm genuinely interested in learning computer science topics so it will be a fun journey forward.  Part Four:  I finally caught up on all my coursework after falling behind in the first couple weeks, so I'm glad to have learned more content this week.  This week after working on my ou...

 Two study tips I've been trying to work on are fighting depression and overcoming anxiety.  While these two subjects I've been struggling with most of my life, they really come into light over the past 5 years.  Since then I've been to therapy and started taking antidepressant medication which helps me cope with depression and anxiety.   Learning about Ethics has always been interesting and also frustrating topic for me.  I've taken an upper division course called Environmental Ethics, which dived into how humans view and interact with nature.  Some of these concepts have stayed with me and I'm relearning them here as well as learning more. Care Ethics is similar to custodian ethics in environmental sense, where humans are a part of the Earth versus the Earth was made for humans.  The reading on what computer science students should know was interesting and I learned quite a bit from it.  I was surprised to see the use of LaTeX being very co...