Unit 2 Essay: Summary #2, Analysis #2

The second article is about why girls need to become computer geeks. The article talks about why computer science is not for girls, and how the major is really hard. It also talks about how being in the field is beneficial for your life, if you want to be a family man/woman. The article also says that coding is creative, it may be hard at first, but if you stay with it just like any other career you can create anything your mind is set out to, women want creativity, but they think that CS is not a good way to create. The conclusion of the article also says that a job in technology can give financial freedom, and the right to do anything you want because coding is a demanding skill for just any job possible.

The article to me was kind of weak, but still strong because even though some women can just try to see past the exterior of the major there is always going to be a negative stereotype of the major amongst girls. I don’t think that it’s going to overcome, because as long as the stereotype of a “Geek” is negative among society, computer science will always have be hand in hand with the geeks. 

Unit 2 Essay: Summary #1 Analysis #1

The first article I found is from DotDiva.com, and what their article is about is why girls are so turned off by computer science. Even though girls are doing really well in math and science, they see Computer science as “Nerdy”, “Boring”, and “Antisocial”. For teen girls this career does not deliver, they want a career that is fulfilling and bring a better change in the world, and to them being in a computer creating a program does not bring change in the world.

This article’s argument is strong, because Computer Science does not seem as a girl major, at all. From an early age girls are depicted as a gender who likes dolls, make-up, books, and being in touch with themselves, while guys are more rowdy, loud, and stubborn. Also they see computer science as hard, as programmers have to solve problems in programs, and find bugs for hours and hours.

About this blog!

Hello and welcome to my blog about unpopularity in computer science. If you guys are avid tech geeks like i am you will find yourself asking the same question i am trying to unfold and....why is computer science popular? Well in this blog i am going to show you guys the answers to computer science by the research i have done in order to solve this. Hope you enjoy this blog!

Letter to the girls who think they are all that and bag of chips!

Dear girl who hates math and computer science:

Well to be honest I don’t know why I even bother why I try to write you this but look, I know that computer science is not always cracked up to be, I know the boy that you reject every time he asks you out is going for that path for the rest of his life is kind of  a geek and a nerd, but reconsider your options here if you know that you have a passion of computer science why staying away from it just because it seems like somebody with no life would choose it, I mean its not that bad darling, if you look at tours of Google on the internet you can see that it’s a state of the art place to work with slides, a gym inside, healthy food and other activities for you to do, it’s a workplace never seen before, I mean sure you can travel around the world and experience different things, but maybe if your good enough Google can fly you out somewhere enjoy your life while doing a project! Come on Darling Consider it, you don’t need a lot of math like they say you do, I suck at math too, I’m in elementary algebra for Pete sake, I’m in the same as my LITTLE BROTHER!, but I’m still going for it because I know I believe in computer and technology as a whole, why cant you? Why can you be the next Steve jobs, or the next bill gates? Why can’t make a revolutionary that will change the tech industry forever? Don’t treat geeks and nerds bad because the people who are crazy enough to change the world are the ones who do, and that is a fact so think about it, and write me back because I get very lonely.


Sincerely,


Claudio Bardales

My Trip to Google!

You can tell that this is not a picture that i took while i was at Google but i did go to check it out its funny actually that the security guard was cool and let me in, but told me not to go in the building or i would get him in trouble. So when i got in to the building, it was just simply amazing it was my first time going in there, but who i saw walking around are people who was my age just hanging out during their break and just having the time of their lives, some of them were working some of them were playing games on their smartphone. The reason i didn't take no photos is because for some reason it was not  allowed inside the campus, that's what the guard told me so i just went with it ( I didn't wanted to get him trouble so i listened to him) What i didn't like about this mini trip is the cooperation of other workers that did not wanted to help me do an interview for my other part of the blog so i couldn't find anybody, but nonetheless it was really fun i really saw myself working for them and find the next best thing in technology, maybe next weekend ill visit apple campus and hang around there as well to see how it.

Political Cartoons

So this comic strip is about a Man on December 31, 1999 at 11:59 pm using a computer, and a caveman in January 1 2000, 12:01 am trying to use technology. This political cartoon was really interesting because it represents so many things not just the y2k scare in the late 90s. It  represents something that people are afraid of technology and afraid that they can get sucked in, and that is the fact that people cant live without technology that's how i see it, and the reason why is because it has become a natural extension of the human race. That's another reason why people don't like technology because its addicting, and in a way its true, but its not bad like drugs or alcohol, they are just afraid of change and getting out of the bubble in my opinion.

So this strip is about two things (I don't know if they are chickens or monsters) One looking at the other working nonstop in a computer. This also takes me back to the fear of computer science and working for companies like apple, Google, and Microsoft, and its about having a monotonous job description and just press a lot of numbers and letters and you make software. My response to this is that whoever makes these cartoon have me flabbergasted because CS is not a major at all you can make it fun, if you have a sociable personality you can make any environment fun!

"Think Different" Video

Before i start my analysis.....I know this video is not 30 minutes long its barely more than half, but i just really loved this video and it connected to me and my very being.



Summary:



The video was about marketing and the how the commercial represent the vision and the passion of Steve jobs and every apple employee.



Analysis:



I found a couple of interesting things about this video. The fact that there was no girls in the entire audience, you can tell that computer science was still not popular with the ladies back then either. The body language of Steve was interesting you can tell right off the bat that he was a very zen type of person.



Response:



That was my first time watching this video i was looking into other presentation that he made like the iPhone one, and the ipod one, but this one even thought it was short captivated me in mere minutes when he said his famous quote "The people who are crazy enough to change world, are the ones who do." And that really got me because being different in this day and age is considered bad, but one of the tech titans in the world today tell me that being different is alright i might just have a chance in the CS Field for sure.