Course 1 - Week 4

Set Your Educational Goals

I've set two educational goals for myself going through the CS Online program

1. To feel more confident as in my own capabilities and using that to be able to advocate for myself.  As I am older and already in the work place some of my goals may differ.  I'm a very capable and skilled programmer, but often times I feel like I can't advocate for apply for myself because I didn't have the formal training that most coworkers have
2. Complete my BS.  I started my collegiate education journey a long time ago and part of me has always felt the need to complete that journey.  I want to learn the things I might have missed out on.

Set Your Career Goals

I'm already in the middle of my career, but I feel as though it's important to continue to learn and grow yourself, your aspirations.  With that in mind, I'd like to contribute to a project that has more of a direct impact with the way an end user interacts and experiences the product.

Take a wild guess of your percentile of the ETS Computer Science test

I feel like there's a lot of ground to cover between now and 18 months, but at the same time I feel comfortable that passing the ETS is an attainable goal and that the next 18 months will help reenforce a lot of the knowledge needed to pass the test.  I feel I'd fall somewhere in the 80-90th percentile.  That's mostly due to feeling as though at the end of the CS Online program I'll have the knowledge needed for the test, but taking a test I can tend to second guess myself and make careless mistakes

Keep Up With Your Learning Journal

This week was a lot of time spent researching our ethics topic and putting together an outline for our essay.  There was a lot of researching into the actual chosen topic (whether cars should have autonomous driving systems), but also into learning more about ethical frameworks and how to apply them to sides of an argument in order to have a compelling case.