Email:
yanxu90@neo.tamu.edu
Class
Standing: first year master
1.
Why am I taking this class?
---Some of my friends recommended me that I
could really learn something interesting and beneficial to my future career in
this course. What’s more important, Professor Hammond is nice and easy-going.
2.
What experience do you bring to
this class?
---I have some programming experience on C,
Java, Android, HTML and JSP in my undergraduate studies. Last semester, I
successfully completed the study of CSCE 614 Computer Architecture and CSCE 629
Analysis of Algorithms.
3.
What is my professional life
goal?
---My ultimate professional life goal is to
become a creative and inspirational technical director in a Fortune 500 companies.
But everything starts from hard-working junior programmer.
4.
What is my personal life goal?
---My personal life goal is to travel all
over the world with my family, tasting their cuisine, enjoying their holidays
and learning as many languages as I can.
5.
What do I want to do after my
graduation?
---I prefer to work in industry if I do not
find a research topic that interests me.
6.
What do I expect to be doing in
10 years?
---I wish I will have already become a
project architect by then, closer to my ultimate goal.
7.
What do you think will be the
next biggest technological advancement in computer science?
---A reform in human-computer interaction, maybe. Just as depicted
in sci-fi movies, we can click, drag and control by gestures via a virtual
screen that identify our instructions through sensors. We do not need PC any
more. It is just my wild imagination.
8.
If you could travel back
in time, who would you like to meet and why?
---I want to meet Dennis Ritchie, the father of C language. The reason
is quite simple. C is the first programming language I learnt (I am still
learning). I want to figure out what difficulties he met and how he overcame
them in the process to create such a popular language with a history of more
than 40 years.
9.
Describe your favorite shoes
and why they are your favorite?
---I like white sneakers. White is my favorite
color. It can easily suit a lot of clothes. Sneakers looks casual and is OK for
every season (Quite convenient).
10.
If you could be fluent in any
foreign language that you're not already fluent in, which one would it be and
why?
---Spanish. I want to travel to Spanish
after my graduation. My favorite soccer team is in Spanish. It is widely spoken
in Latin America.
11.
Give some interesting
fact/story about yourself.
---I like collecting cool beverage pop cans.
