Hello World! This is the first of hopefully many posts here… As a CS student I was tasked on making a weekly blog regarding my progress throughout the semester as I learn more stuff about software design through the course lectures, podcasts, and articles I find across my stay at WSU. I think this journal is a great idea. One thing I remember from a previous psychology course is that writing things down is a great memory reinforcement tool so hopefully whatever I jot down here I will be able to recall when I need it the most, not only that but I think that making this blogging thing a weekly habit will help me be more consistent on my extracurricular projects, because I must admit that I tend to neglect past projects whenever I start a new one, which happens often on a whim. This is the main reason why I added an archive, and made public a list of personal projects, so that in essence I am hanging my work on the wall ready for everyone to see, regardless if anybody actually sees it or not, the peer pressure I get from posting unfinished ideas will entice me to put more effort and love into them so that they stop being merely just ideas and become a finished product instead. Even if the quality leaves more to be desired, I must learn to finish what I start! So, in a sense, if this blog helps me be more consistent with my schoolwork as well as my personal projects, I would consider it a huge success. But I don’t want to stop just there.

I aspire to be a software developer one day, doing what exactly I am not entirely sure, but if there is any constant among every respectable professional out there is they all have some sort of journal that they share and discuss their findings as they develop new tools and design features for their projects (just like this school project!). Collaboration is a big part of this career, programmers borrow and share code all the time, so I think it’s fair play that we also share concepts and anecdotes with each other too. My goal with this website therefore is to join the cool kids club and write stuff down not only for me but for anyone that’s following my steps, of course there is not much to tell right now but who knows when it might prove useful one day.

I’ll stop daydreaming for now and get started

From the blog CS@Worcester – Andres Ovalles by ergonutt and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.