Goal or dream concerning my course or program.
As I finished this semester, I realised that there are more things that I need to explore and educate myself. These are my goal and dream about these courses and programs.
First, I would like to sharpen and upgrade my programming technique skill. After finishing course SECP1015, I will explore in C++ language first. Make sure that it is strong enough, and at the same time, I understand the program entirely that whenever someone needs a hand on it, I can explain it to them well. I found myself very fond of this course. Hence, I would like to focus and sharpen my coding skills by taking advantage of that interest. Plus, if I have the opportunity to learn another language program, I would take it gladly. This course helps sharpen my creativity.
Other than that, after taking a step back to review all the courses that I had learned in this program, I found that I need to make a significant effort in understanding Discrete Structure. I am having a hard time understanding this course. Every time assignment needs to be done, I need my friends helps to do with the assignment given. Without it, I don't think I can finish it. Therefore, I hope to understand this course well before the final test.
As you can see, these two courses play a significant role in this semester. For other courses, I enjoyed learning them. One of the best memory is for the TIS assignment where we need to do a low-fidelity prototype. I hope in the new semester I can do some more similar projects like that again.
Action or plan to improve my potential in the industry
Knowing what I can improve is a tremendous help in coming up with a strategy for resolving my flaws and becoming a better employee in the future. I can make myself a more appealing candidate for promotions by addressing areas of weakness and expanding on areas of strength.
However, I need to choose or specify the career path I want before all that. To be honest, I still don't know what to choose, but I will follow my interest in programming. I will set that as my starting point in my career journey. The most significant action that I need to take is strengthening my foundation, which involves soft and hard skills. Here, I would like to focus on this two first rather than travel far in planning my action towards this goal.
Firstly, I need to reinforce my soft skills. This way, I could interact with others with ease and confidence—one of the skills that I need to prioritise is my communication, time management, and leadership. How? Overall, I will first self-reflect to identify the best approach to make up for my weakness. Next, step out of my comfort zone to get into a settling that I do not naturally gravitate to. For instance, I always felt timid and intimidated whenever I needed to speak English. Therefore, the best way was to join an English club or casually speak English with my friends every day. Next, asking for feedback about my soft skills could also strengthen my skills. Lastly, actively listen—many of the soft talents described before require excellent listening skills. When I listen, I need to be sure that I listen to comprehend, not just to respond.
Next are the actions that need to be taken for hard skills. Hard skills are those that are required to do a given task. These abilities are often obtained through education and training and are necessary for pursuing and succeeding in a specific employment field. For now, I would like to focus more on computer skills as my most extensive interest is in those scopes. The specific computer skills include Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Suite skills. Plus, programming skills are also classified as computer skills. Therefore, learning Python, Java and C++ would be my goal. I can think of and do several ways: to take online courses such as Harvard free course and regularly practising these hard skills is a key to getting better at them.
My opinion on whether this subject contributes to my knowledge.
The TIS or Technology and Information System course do contribute a lot of knowledge to me. It exposes the emerging trends of information systems and technology and how it is used ubiquitously at home and the workplace. This helps me understand more about technology and broaden my career prospects. The most important lesson was when we needed to complete the AWS academy and make a low-fidelity prototype website. AWS certificate exposed and taught me a lot about cloud computing systems. Plus, making the low-fidelity prototype help me to understand better design and flow in making a useful website.
Acknowledgement for my lecturers.
I want to express my special appreciation and thanks to all my lecturers in year 1 for their constant guidance, which they always provided me. I want to thank you all for always encouraging me in doing all those assignments and projects. These would never be possible without the appropriate guidance and motivation. Once again, thank you.