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 1^st 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.