Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Computer Programmer

I love that I am working to my goal of being a computer programmer, since I am logical and love working with computers. I love when I can create something that serves purpose and functions, merely with a few strokes on the keyboard. Writing this essay is a very hard task for me, since it means comprising four months of experiences in a few paragraphs, which is a very challenging task. Writing this essay also means, that my time here has almost come to an end and it is time for me to have learnt the best I can and use this knowledge to help me with future endeavours. I am lucky to be one of the chosen students who had the good opportunity to work for the school that I study under. My externship site was for the ‘Career Service Department’ of ASA College. The function of this particular department is to help their students to find jobs. It could be paying jobs that help students to be financially stable, or jobs that would help the students gather experience and have a better resume by gathering experience on site. My supervisors was expected to help students studying their last semester find a job, enabling them to earn their credits for the semester and be ale to graduate.

Since I was asked to build an application which challenged me to put everything I learned to use and more. Until before I started working at this externship site, everything I studied felt very theoretical and now I got to utilize it and see the practical version. Out of all the courses that I took at ASA, three of them helped me a lot. The Photoshop class helped me design our application. It made me think of the color schemes that would make it pleasant on the users’ eyes, keeping the school theme colors in mind. I used SQL to build the database. I also used C# to code the desktop application. Most of the C# that I used, was not however taught in school and we had to take out time to do our research on