First Days Homework

For the first two readings in this course we were asked to read “How I Learned to Program Computers” by Feross Aboukhadijeh and “How I Learned to Live Google-Free” by Joshua J. Romero. Both of these readings talked about an experience that the author had with technology and the role it played in their lives and an experience they gained somehow in their interaction with it. I found both of the articles to be interesting with each having a slightly different approach at telling the story.

           Both of these articles shared a few things that I may try to incorporate into my own educational narrative. The thing that stood out to me the most was the use of humor. This can make all the difference between and engaging or a dry read. Of the two I felt that the one written by Romero incorporated this better, an example was his quoting the microsoft representative comparing google to cigarettes. Another thing that I liked was the organization, the way that the stories were chronologically told. I felt that Aboukhadijeh did a better job of this while Romero tended to ramble a little bit. “How I Learned to Program Computers” did a very good job of breaking the story into pieces and explaining why it was included.