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#Exps 407 reflections mportfolio software#

Programmers often joke that 'the better you become at coding, the worse you become at spelling.' In the meeting room where I interned, the word 'sharif' was written in the top corner of one of the whiteboards as an eternal reminder of how badly one of the senior developers once butchered the word 'sheriff.' We poke fun at the idea that writing ability is something we leave to the English majors, technical writing is far from absent from the software development experience. I feel like these documents together highlight how much I've improved while also wrapping my hard skills with what inspires me. The fact that my first and last project both focus on video games was unintentional, but its effectiveness is not lost on me. It's not nearly as impressive as my Technical Definition/Description, but I feel like it makes an excellent complement to my Multimedia Evaluation project. Overall, this document showcases the widest range of skills of any of the projects I've included.įinally, I've included my Instruction Set. Furthermore, it serves as an example of my proficiency using LaTeX to typeset scientific documents. I think I've demonstrated a level of comfort with a fairly complex topic that I can show not only to potential employers but also to my peers when they inevitably ask for help with linked lists again. The subject matter, linked lists, is something I still find my peers in 300-400 level classes struggling with. This document sits at the crossroads of so many of my strengths. The decision to include my Technical Definition/Description was probably the easiest decision I had to make for the entire site. The last two projects were both from this class, and I had very different reasons for including each.

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Proxylab, on the other hand, relies on a bit of starter code provided by my instructor. Also, this is the largest programming project I've built from scratch. While it probably won't be directly relevant to what I want to do post-graduation, it demonstrates my understanding of low-level, hardware concepts that is absent from elsewhere.

Proxylab was the final project from my systems programming course, and it showcases a lot of skills that, as my professor put it, 'separate a programmer from a Computer Scientist.' The processor is from my computer engineering course. Proxylab and the processor from lab 5 are the two most involved programming assignments I've completed to date. The next two projects are my 'hard skills' projects. My passion for good game design has been with me since I was very young, and I had a lot of fun with this project (and received a really good grade for it as well). Despite this, I've decided it belongs among the others because it highlights the reasons I chose to major in Computer Science in the first place. Having completed it my first semester, it is by far the least polished project of the group. The first project I've included is my Multimedia Evaluation project from ENGL015. My decision to include each is elaborated upon below. They are included under the 'Sample Work' tab and are organized chronologically. I've decided to include a variety of projects in this e-portfolio that touch upon both my hard and soft skills. It pushed me to improve myself in a way that most other writing courses have not.

Overall, this class ended up being the most valuable English class I've taken in a long time. I was encouraged to revisit some skills I hadn't quite mastered such as the art of concision and the exclusion of flowery language to make my points. However, in this course, I wasn't allowed to just ride on the things I was already good at a certain level of self-reflection was expected of me. Over the years I spent there, I developed my writing chops considerably, and it gave me an edge in English classes ever since. The question 'who is going to read this?' was something I spent a lot of time considering during the writing process, and I think that played a huge role in helping me tailor my final drafts to a variety of individuals.Īt age 14, I joined an online 'role-playing' forum where I spent hours writing complex narratives with some very talented individuals. While concepts such as 'audience' and 'exigence' were covered in ENGL015, this class seemed to expect a deeper consideration for these concepts (particularly for audience). However, I found myself working a lot harder than that while also enjoying the work I did.Ĭompared to ENGL015, the freshman-level English requirement, this class felt a lot more focused. I figured this course was going to be 'another one of those classes' where showing up would be enough to boost my GPA. My mother was an English major, and I inherited her talent for drafting up quality papers the night before their due dates. I've always been a little bit dismissive of English classes.