HELP ME WRITEMY ESSAY PLEASE!

Hi!
 I'm a freshman: My major in Computer Engineering. 
 I have this assignment for english to write an essay about my major, one of the requirements is to interview a personality in my field. I was wondering if you could please take 10 mins. to answer my questions. I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you!!

 

Interview Questions

1. Would you please introduce yourself by giving me a brief outline of you? (Your name, your work place, your major, where you graduated. It is only for the purpose of writting the essay)

2. How would you define your profession and your current job?

3. How long have you been working in this field?

4. Many of my peers think that computer engineers program, repair or build computers. What are other things that computer and/OR software engineers do?

5. How much do you use the calculus and physics learned in college?

6. What would you advise me to become as successful as you are?

Angelica De Leon


Thank You So much:D[H]

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Hi!
 I'm a freshman: My major in Computer Engineering. 
 I have this assignment for english to write an essay about my major, one of the requirements is to interview a personality in my field. I was wondering if you could please take 10 mins. to answer my questions. I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you!!

 

Interview Questions

1. Would you please introduce yourself by giving me a brief outline of you? (Your name, your work place, your major, where you graduated. It is only for the purpose of writting the essay)

I am a .NET developer for a mid size advertising firm in south eastern US.  (Cox Auto Trader, IT Major with a concentration of Database Administration using Oracle technologies, Old Dominion University)

2. How would you define your profession and your current job?

I do mostly ASP.NET 2.0 development with some work on SQL Server 2000/2005. I am very passionate about .NET technology and the future of the web.

3. How long have you been working in this field?
Going on 3 years.

4. Many of my peers think that computer engineers program, repair or build computers. What are other things that computer and/OR software engineers do?

Build web sites. I mostly build content management systems for advertising classifieds. (Sharepoint, Dot Net Nuke, Telerik Suite) Architecture is my passion.

5. How much do you use the calculus and physics learned in college?
Next to zero.

6. What would you advise me to become as successful as you are?

Develop a passion for what you do. Make it routine to keep up with the industry. Learn new technology as a hobby and start a blog/website. (Iron Python, PowerShell, AJAX whatever strikes your fancy as interesting)

:DTTTTHHANNKK YOUUUU!!!!!

Interview Questions

1. Would you please introduce yourself by giving me a brief outline of you? (Your name, your work place, your major, where you graduated. It is only for the purpose of writting the essay)

Name: Tim Graupmann, tagenigma
Work place: Reactor Interactive
Major: Computing and Software Systems minor Systems Analysis
Where: University of Washington

2. How would you define your profession and your current job?

I am currently in the 3rd year of a 5 year development process for making a video game called "Sector13".

3. How long have you been working in this field?

I have been professionally making games for 3 years. It's been a hobby for more than a decade.

4. Many of my peers think that computer engineers program, repair or build computers. What are other things that computer and/OR software engineers do?

There is a lot of research that goes into software development. There is a given for reading manuals, docs, APIs, and forums. But you also have to keep your math and programming skills sharp. You need to read the latest articles, watch game reviews, and watch visual effects in movies to stay up to date with the latest techniques. You also need a related hobby so you can unplug. I use a few 3d modeling apps in the game pipeline and also for fun. Blender, ZBrush3, and Modo 301 are my favorite sculpting and animation apps.

5. How much do you use the calculus and physics learned in college?

I didn't take Physics in school, but I learned enough reading about programming techniques. I did take Biology and Chemistry. I took statistics and 3 quarters of Calculus in college. I picked up Linear Algebra doing 3d. Basically math helps your programming ability, so take as much as you can. To help, try and apply as much math as you can while learning programming. It will help in both areas.

6. What would you advise me to become as successful as you are?

One thing that you can do to keep you sharp is to monitor programming forums and answer questions as much as you can. You'll see questions that you will have to research and the easy questions will help you to not forget anything. And it can be rewarding helping other people.

COOOLL THANKS

Thank you so mucho to everyone  who answered my questions. I am really grateful and its really helpful, not only for my essay but also I know a little more on ehat my future  can look like
Thank you!!!

icacmba wrote:

1. Would you please introduce yourself by giving me a brief outline of you? (Your name, your work place, your major, where you graduated. It is only for the purpose of writting the essay)

My name is Sebastian, I work at DeKlarit, a Chicago based company working with many .net technologies, and I graduated as a Computer Engineer in Uruguay.

icacmba wrote:


2. How would you define your profession and your current job?

DeKlarit is a RAD tool and part of my job is to open the possibilities for clients, introducing new supported technologies to our tool.

icacmba wrote:


3. How long have you been working in this field?

RAD tools? only for over a year. Developing? I started 8 yars ago.

icacmba wrote:


4. Many of my peers think that computer engineers program, repair or build computers. What are other things that computer and/OR software engineers do?

Estimate time and costs, and desiding where to go and why 

icacmba wrote:


5. How much do you use the calculus and physics learned in college?

Not that much, but I'm convinced it gave me a better approach while dealing with problems

icacmba wrote:


6. What would you advise me to become as successful as you are?

How do you measure how successful one is? by how happy one is doing what he loves and does best? Then ,I would say I'm successful. I guess I just got lucky  

icacmba wrote:



Hi!
 I'm a freshman: My major in Computer Engineering. 
 I have this assignment for english to write an essay about my major, one of the requirements is to interview a personality in my field. I was wondering if you could please take 10 mins. to answer my questions. I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you!!

Lesson 1: don't use all-caps. It's ettiquette 101, both online and offline.

Anyway, because your post body reveals you don't want us to actually do your CS assignments for you (as some audacious people have done).

icacmba wrote:

Interview Questions

1. Would you please introduce yourself by giving me a brief outline of you? (Your name, your work place, your major, where you graduated. It is only for the purpose of writting the essay)

2. How would you define your profession and your current job?

3. How long have you been working in this field?

4. Many of my peers think that computer engineers program, repair or build computers. What are other things that computer and/OR software engineers do?

5. How much do you use the calculus and physics learned in college?

6. What would you advise me to become as successful as you are?

Angelica De Leon


Thank You So much:D[H]

1. I'm David, I'm a full-time student, no major yet (there's no real concept of a "major" in the UK HE system anyway), and obviously not graduated yet.


2. Depends, I do lots of things; besides being a student I also:

• Do IT support for a company operated by a friend of mine
• Write commercial software for fun and profit (and yet still haven't released anything). The scope is everything, I decide what to develop, how to develop it, actually developing it, testing it, and deploying it. But I sometimes press-gang people into volunteering for UA testing stuff.
• Write bespoke apps
• Contribute towards the occasional F/OSS app (especially if its user-interface sucks, which most of them do)
  

3. Since 2003, technically early-2000 (if you count my early days mucking around with FrontPage)

4. "Computer Engineer" and "Software Engineer" are totally different things. We've got Microsoft to thank for inflating the definition of Engineer from "designer" to "technician". In reality "Computer Engineers" are technicians, plain and simple (not putting them down, they're also often very qualified Network Administrators). But the guy down at the local PC shop who fixes computers is not an "engineer", not by any stretch.

In the obligatory car analogy, a "computer engineer" is your mechanic. The Software Engineer is the guy who designed the car to begin with.

5. There's more to math than calculus, what about Descision Math (very important in CS), but Physical science isn't that important in CS, except Classical physics which is good for simulations. (Unless, of course you're a scientific software developer)

6. I'm not succesful yet But stay the course, aim high (even if you miss), and live, breath, and eat CS. Ditch your social life, it'll only hold you back from the next innovation you create. Discover Logic and Reason, think objectivly, and drop the hive-minded sheep-like mentality of the masses. You're an individual, so you'd better think it.

W3bbo wrote:


6. I'm not succesful yet But stay the course, aim high (even if you miss), and live, breath, and eat CS. Ditch your social life, it'll only hold you back from the next innovation you create.

I hope you don't actually believe this bullshit. It's one thing to do choose to do it yourself, it's another to tell others that this is how it is. Sorry, W3bbo, but you're not old enough to make that statement.

I agree with Minh here. Ditching your social life is a bad idea. Building a new social life gets harder the older you get. And "it'll hold you back from the next innovation you create" is bullcràp. What was the last innovation you created? I usually get my best ideas when I'm not working, when I'm not thinking about computers or software AT ALL. When I'm at work, I often get solutions to my (programming) problems when I'm sitting on the toilet, when I'm "away from work" for a few minutes. I get good ideas when I'm at the gym, at the movies, anywhere.

TommyCarlier wrote:

I agree with Minh here. Ditching your social life is a bad idea. Building a new social life gets harder the older you get. And "it'll hold you back from the next innovation you create" is bullcràp. What was the last innovation you created? I usually get my best ideas when I'm not working, when I'm not thinking about computers or software AT ALL. When I'm at work, I often get solutions to my (programming) problems when I'm sitting on the toilet, when I'm "away from work" for a few minutes. I get good ideas when I'm at the gym, at the movies, anywhere.

Okay then, it's just me then

I dont plan to ditch my social life, I can't live without family ans friends, and I want to be a soccer mom, and be involved with my kids and their friends and their families, and I love to be witth people .

icacmba wrote:

I dont plan to ditch my social life, I can't live without family ans friends, and I want to be a soccer mom, and be involved with my kids and their friends and their families, and I love to be witth people .

I can tell we're not going to get along. I despise helicopter parents, does more harm than good.

W3bbo wrote:


In the obligatory car analogy, a "computer engineer" is your mechanic. The Software Engineer is the guy who designed the car to begin with.

Errr, computer engineers are the ones who design processors, write microcode, and do low level software and driver work, among other things. Computer engineering degrees here in the US are essentially hybrid degrees between electrical engineering and computer science, so you learn about data structures and discrete math as well as circuit design, signal processing, and other topics in the EE realm.

TimP wrote:



W3bbo wrote:  In the obligatory car analogy, a "computer engineer" is your mechanic. The Software Engineer is the guy who designed the car to begin with.

Errr, computer engineers are the ones who design processors, write microcode, and do low level software and driver work, among other things. Computer engineering degrees here in the US are essentially hybrid degrees between electrical engineering and computer science, so you learn about data structures and discrete math as well as circuit design, signal processing, and other topics in the EE realm.

Yes, W3bbo is incorrect here.

I'm a junior in computer engineering, and if all I had to do was fix computers, I wouldn't have spent the day talking about heapsort (yes, data structures is pretty late in our curriculum), programming an HC12 processor to read data from a distance sensor in C, and studying for a test about bipolar junction transistors and BJT amplifiers. I would not have had classes last semester in computer organization, digital logic design, and discrete math.  In fact, I wouldn't need a degree at all. 

(now back to the BJTs...)