Smallish Post 6

As a child, my mother didn't allow us to play electronic games unless they were educational, and even then, we had time limits. It was probably a good thing, because I was mesmerized watching other children play games, like Pokemon while I waited for gymnastics practice. Now that I have my own daughter, my wife and I will need to decide how much and what kinds of games we will let her play, and what kind of example we will be to her.

Book Post - Here Comes Everybody

Like Spiderman's Uncle Ben said, "With great power comes great responsibility. " Social networks provide a powerful way to share information. This information can be spread and influence many people in the decisions they make day to day. Because of this, erroneous information can have a detrimental effect on people in just the same way good information can inspire and promote others to choose wisely. We, as users and consumers in this vast network, need to make sure the information that comes to us is reliable, and that the things we say are truthful.

Smallish Post 5

Before I was a web developer, I was a quality assurance analyst. I would spend my day going through web apps, lazily clicking buttons and dragging images in an attempt to break a specified function. When I found an error, I'd tell the developers, and later they would come to me asking how to reproduce the bug. Now, I do the same to my team's QA. Though her documentation is much better than mine was, many of the details on how to reproduce the bug are unclear. This is probably due to her inexperience with the tools she could use to describe the bug better. I've learned that when testing, it is important to record details well so that issues can be fixed quickly.

Smallish Post 4 - Why I declared Computer Science

After coming home from my mission, I decided that I wasn't willing to put in the work to get a degree in Cello performance, and that it would just be a hobby of mine. What got me into computer science was my cousin, Andrew. Andrew was majoring in computer science, and I thought that if he could do it, I could too. I ended up liking the intro class enough to declare the major before the semester was through. If I hadn't had someone like Andrew to show me that computer scientists aren't all geeks and recluses, I wouldn't even have considered a career in computers. If that social stigma would have prevented me, a male student, from entering computer science, how much more would the perceived environment scare away female students?