BOOK REVIEW

Book Review

            Since I have researched a lot of why computer science is unpopular I wanted to go right to the source of this, and learn about the man and the company who started the trend of computer science: Steve Jobs. I picked his autobiography into possibly find some answers to my questions and needless to say I found some answers indirectly of course. The book is about Steve jobs and his whole life how he started apple and how he met everybody in his life. This story started in the Silicon Valley when he got adopted by his parents. When he was in school he was a prankster always causing mischief and just having fun, from then on he met Steve Wozniak, and they started this computer called “The Cream Soda Computer” Because when they were inventing it while they were drinking cream soda. That little invention was the foundation and mentality of apple, Jobs never in his wildest dreams would he ever wanted to start the company that we all know today.

            Steve was really into the beat of his own drum, he dropped out of Reed College in 1974 just to figure himself out and check what he wanted to do. He wasn’t really that religious, he was considered an agnostic. When he when to bible study he questioned the teacher there how god was not doing anything to improve the world, and the teacher told him passages from the bible, and jobs didn’t buy it and he walked out, he was into Buddhism and into being Zen, he went to India with a monk who preached in reed college, and he found himself, not only that he did a lot of drug especially LSD. 

            When apple started waging war against IBM, jobs started to change he wanted to keep seeing his vision he almost forgot about his friends, but when he was dropped from project Lisa, he got into the Macintosh team and he made the computer that made Microsoft windows, and the Imac and the Mac os x. But the Macintosh flopped, and because of the price increase, and IBM and other smaller companies like Microsoft at the time they were doing better.  The shareholders wanted another person to be the CEO, and jobs got eventually got kicked out of his own company. When Steve jobs got kicked out, he made another computer and market it, but then when he got back into apple he combined the computer he made with the Macintosh and made the Mac os x.

            Steve jobs were the leader in the tech industry Post-IBM. He revolutionized everything related to technology today. He made something that had been intergraded into our very beings for decades now: Home computer, but after reading the book I didn’t find a direct argument in his book, but an argument nonetheless I found. Which was the reason why computer science is not popular is because of the competition of other companies they always want young fresh minds to market and make money out of. Computer science is for people that care about technology anybody who has that passion, I guess computer science are for people who are considered outcasts, and not popular in high school or in college, they are seen as people who are introverts and shy and unsocial to everybody else, and that’s what is the turn off of computer science but as how Steve jobs said “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them” That’s really the main argument in this book is that they scared of the job environment, and don’t want to be stuck in a cubicle in a office working on software for the rest in their lives.

I don’t agree with the argument because technology should be right now in this time a natural extension of the human being. People who are considered nerds, geeks, wee boos, people with no social class are the people that will lead the human race into evolution that’s why I am proud to be a computer science major, because I know that even though in my high school years was not popular or much liked I know that when I get my degree and work for one of these companies I know that I will make something so revolutionary that it will inspire others into getting into the field. I think computer science is gaining popularity as we speak, with websites popping up that teaches the main foundation of computer science which is programming. If we can find a better way to show people that computer science is not for the outcast, it can be for the average joe, we can make computer science one of the most popular majors in the country if not the world, we just need somebody to lead the ship into the right direction, and since Steve jobs has passed away right now there is a seat open for anyone, no matter what company they work for to step up make computer science popular, and make it a good working environment.

            Computer science is not just making software or hardware is much more than that, people just think that this what they are going to do the for rest of their lives and that’s not it, you have to be some type of humanitarian to be in computer science, because if you are not then you’re going to feel like work in cubicle for the rest of your life. Computer science has a chance to be popular and it will be its just a matter of time when people realize that this is the best way to go.