Computer science: Today and tomorrow
My Beginning
When I was a very young boy, my
mother was beginning her collegiate career. Her declared major was computer
science and Development. Little did I know that this decision my mother made
would impact my life severely. When I
was in the 1st grade my mother started her first year in college
towards her degree. She came home one day very flustered and aggravated. She
told me that she had much work to do; she also had to make dinner for my
family. I was only 6 years old and I asked if I could help her with her
homework. She quickly dismissed my offer and chuckled for a minute. Over the
years I became more and more interested in the work that she was doing for her
degree. She would try her best to explain what she was doing so I could
understand it. I could never quite understand, but her doing this was
increasing my fascination for computers and technology even more. Later down
the when I was in high school my mother would spend hours explaining to me
exactly what she was doing for her major. I took to it very well, I became
knowledgeable about the subject before I came to college. Towards the end of my
high school career I decided that computer science was a subject that I wanted
to look into for my college career. I
still wasn’t sure if this was something that I would really want to do for the
rest of my life. I decided to come to JSU in the summer to talk to Doctor Ford
(the head of the CS department). He
explained many things about the major to me while I was there. This sealed the
deal for me. I finally decided that I was going to be a Computer science major.
