The final examination is coming

May 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

After reading the new announcement on IT Faculty’s website, I felt a bit worried about the final exam is coming on the week after next. I’ve lost some important lectures in the last semester. I hope two weeks are enough for me to review all the lessons. If only want to pass the subjects, it is not hard. And if want to get A grade on the subject is not easy. Every semester you learn 5-6 required subjects. We cannot compare what subject is more important than the other one. This comparison depends on what you plan for your future career. In my case, I want to be a JAVA Programmer, so I only focus all subjects relate to basic programming skills and theories. I rarely spend time for Network, Database or other subjects.


Passion is my strongest point, and it’s also my weakness one. I can code day by day to develop my ideas. Whenever I decided to put all my concentrations to one thing, then nothing else is matter. This why I often come late to class or do not care about my subjects in class. Does it sound reasonable? And as a result, I got some 5-6 subjects with “F” grade. However, grade is the thing that I never think about. =)) I am ready to leave my university at any time if I found a better chance on somewhere else. But until now, I can not find any where better than this place. :D Maybe I will try hard to stay. kkkkkkkk

The truth is I really love to study at my university. I appreciate all the lessons that I’ve learned at this place. The Computer Science course in my university is not latest as other well-known universities in the world, but it gives you an essential knowledge to learn everything else, e.g: Basic Programming with C Language, OOP Concepts with Java Language, Discrete Math, Graph Theory, Algorithms and Data Structure, etc. If you can master all these subjects, I think you can learn new languages (Object C, Python, PHP…) in a short time. You can also download learning material from the website site (wowebook.com, lynda.com, …) to update your knowledge during the time you’re learning at school.

Taking your responsibility for your career, don’t wait until your teachers teach you how to do it.

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Doing something new

May 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I always try to learn latest Technologies as much as possible because it’s my responsibility in my career. Moreover, this is my passion, I feel very excited when explore something new especially in technology. But it’s not everything, someday ago, I realized that there are a lot of people do not have the same feeling with me when they face to the technical problems.

One of my neighbors ask me about “How to attach file to an email?”… I was really surprised because I thought no other jobs in the world easier than it, but the truth is a different story. If you ask them about computer, most of them will give you an answer that “it’s useful machine, but it’s still too complicated to use”.

People often put themselves in hard circumstances when ask for other help. The result will depend on other people. The problems are not hard as they thought, the guidance for their problems is always available on the Internet for them to access. But they must have a required knowledge about Computer e.g: Basic Computer skills(What is windows? What is titlebar? What is web browser, How to search Google…) and English.

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Some moment in life

May 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

“Lonely” become more common word on these day, people usually use it on Facebook Status, Blog posts, Twitter updates and available on peoples’s face. Remember when I was a child, I only felt lonely when being alone at home. I was scared, really scared. Maybe that was the first time the loneliness touch my heart. This feeling was really strange to me at that time.

When I grow up, experiencing more in life, this feeling become my bad friend. I really don’t like it when it appear in my thinking. But I’m the thinker of my thinking, I try to push it out of my head immediately. How fortune I was, some good friends help me to do it. It’s Love, Friendship, and Work.

We often lost in our thoughts, think is good but think  too much it is not good anymore. Don’t let our thoughts kill our life. I’m not alone and you too! Just smile you won’t be said!

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Develop ideas

May 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I often get new ideas from normal daily works. It’s simple. However, I’m too lazy to get it to be done. I wish I had enough time to complete one by one. It’s really great when you can do everything you wish in life.

Two months ago, I began to learn English online. I met a lot of friends. We shared learning experiences together and more especially I got a lot of ideas from them:

  • Redesign the lectures to make it easier to understand.
  • Write some small tools for supporting teaching English online.
  • Make some clip to help other people using computers to learn English independently.
  • … (more)

Idea comes from very normal works and at every aspect of life. Everyone has good ideas but less people can keep track of them, and only a small number of people can pull it off.

 

I am an example. I got some new ideas from my English Room, but I do not have enough time to develop it. If I put more time into the ideas, I will not have time for learning English. How can I  do two things good at the same time?

I found the solution is a Schedule. If I could arrange all my jobs into a schedule and stick to it, I could get things done as I want. The big problem is you must get yourself to take responsibility to what I planned. I list all the tasks to the paper or project software, put more information about your tasks like: status, description, time, duration, priority. These things will make my ideas more real and measurable.

Finally, always say to myself “Don’t give up and just do it!”

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How I learn English (Part 1)

April 12, 2012 By 5 Comments

Nowadays, English becomes an International Language. A lot of Language Training Centers have been open according to main streets in Ho Chi Minh City with different fee and courses. Therefore, people have so many choices, which adapt for their purpose and finance.

They usually learn English to adapt job requirements or get a certificate for scholarship to study abroad. In my situation, I learn English just for reading and research. I regard it as a tool to read document, e-book and improve my Programming Skill. Moreover, it helps me communicate with other foreign developers to collaborate in open-source projects or exchange news, knowledge, etc. I feel English useful in above situation.

At the beginning, I listed all methods for learning English that I have known to my notebook and started to compare the pros and cons for finding the suitable solution for me. Finally, I choose learning English Online. At first, I searched for ten popular English Forum Websites and find some friends on Chat website. Fortunately, I meet a lot of friends on the website who have the same purpose with me. Though we’re eager to learn English and sharing learning experience with one another, we still do not have a clear plan to learn effectively. It’s not a relax task to kill your time in a meaningful way. You should learn deliberately and have a clear plan to get a measurable result in a limited time. It’s not easy for people who could not take responsibility for themselves.

Once again, I find a mentor in a Online English Club and ask him for help. He agreed and gave us some new methodology to solve our obstacles. I was impressed by the way he showed us how to learn English. He used statistic, software, etc, to eliminate all the complicated of the English Vocabulary, especially the way to analyze sentences and how to break it down to a small parts for easier to understand. After three weeks, his method has made a significant change in the way we learn English. Though the result is still unclear now, but with my effort, I think I could get TOEIC Certificate in a short time that the thing I never think about before.

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