Week 4

Another week has gone by, it was also an intense one because of the career fair. Job hunting has officially begun, and that means info sessions, interviews, phone screens, among others; so it is an added challenge on students who are looking for either an internship or a full-time position, like myself. In class we also started discussing the next project, "Voting," which is quite the opposite of Collatz. Here, the "learning software engineering" part is really a minor thing, and it deals more with being able to crack a given problem. Downing himself said that if Collatz was 80-20 between Software Engineering skills and problem solving, then Voting is a 20-80. I already started working on it and I am a little nervous.

In class we talked a little more about overriding operators in C++, and then on Friday we had our very first guest speaker, whom actually was a Software Engineering student of prof. Downing about four years ago if I recall correctly. He came representing Bloomberg and spoke about the way that Bloomberg conducts its operations on a daily basis. It caught my attention how he said that, even though Bloomberg is associated often with Finance and the TV channel, they think of themselves more like a Data company. That's what they do really, collect data and present it. So software definitely comes in on a daily basis. He spoke about the different tools they use, including an open-source one that was created by Facebook. I thought it was a really interesting talk. I'm looking forward to meeting the rest of the guest speakers!