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This weekend I watched a movie called “Robot and Frank” directed by Jake Schreier. It’s about an aging father, Frank, who is becoming forgetful as he grows older. His son gives him a robot butler who is programmed to take care of him. The movie explores the relationship between Frank and his robot, who he
This week in our XML and Web Services class we learned about XPath and XSLT. I am always surprised at how many different languages there are available to programmers and web developers. It is almost overwhelming because it is impossible to become an expert in all of them. Prior to learning how XSLT and XPath
With the second semester well under way, it is time to start thinking about internships. During my research, I have found myself thinking about my competition. My classmates are suddenly my competitors, and there are thousands of other computer science students who are also looking for an “in” into the Computer Science industry. This thought
One of our new courses this semester is called “Security and Quality Assurance”. Over the past two weeks, the security portion of the course has really caught my attention. I have always been fascinated by hackers and what I heard about them in the news. One of our assignments was to find 3 big hacking
The first week of a semester is always inspiring and terrifying to me. It’s nice to have a clean slate: new classes, new teachers, new groups, and new assignments. It is refreshing. However, change is also scary. In the past semester we learned so much. Hearing the teachers go over each courses’ syllabus and explaining
This past Wednesday was the last day of our Digital Design course at Humber College. Royce was a great instructor. He covered a lot of material, while managing to keep the classes interesting. It’s hard to keep that kind of pace in a classroom. Often a teacher will move too quickly and the class cannot
I had big plans for the weekend that just passed. Very big plans. Those plans consisted of me waking up, sitting at my desk, and working. I did plan on moving for an hour or two a day, to consume some food and to get some exercise. Everything started off well. On Friday night, I
In the Web Development program at Humber College, we have lot of individual assignments and independent studying to do, but we also have a lot of group work. Our teachers, who have worked or are currently working in the industry, tell us that the reason for having group work is that in the real world almost everything
In the Web Development program at Humber College, we learn a lot of things that are completely foreign to me. I’ve dabbled in HTML & CSS before taking the program, but nothing beyond the basics. I’ve even had my own website for a few years, which I designed from scratch. However, I never knew just
As we started learning Javascript in class, I began noticing a reoccurring pattern. Everything we were learning in class made sense to me while the teacher was standing infront of the class and teaching us. However, as soon as I sat down on my own to attempt an assignment, it became clear to me that