Week 4
This week the majority of our assignments have been focused on sounds. Becoming familiar with sounds and how they're digitized has been pretty interesting. I think I still need to practice understanding the correlation between bit depth and the value. Aside from the sound assignments, the rest of the assignments were focused on string manipulation and access in python. String manipulation has been pretty straight forward since it's similar to other string manipulation functions in other languages. However, splicing and splitting strings is a bit different in python (with the string[:3], string[3:], and string[3:3] syntax). The paired programming labs were a bit better this time with encouraging them to be done together, as a pair. Also, we had to wrap up our midterm project this week, which was creating filters on photos with certain themes. We had to do one that was CSUMB themed and one that was up to our own discretion. I chose a Buffy the Vampire theme. I'm pretty happy with that decision.
Assigned Readings
Many companies hire people based on their (almost perfect) resume. This article asks that employers look for different things in potential employees, like obstacles they may have overcome. It suggests that these companies should prefer candidates that are different from the rest and challenges them to not follow the social norm of hiring practices. This sounds great and realistic, but that's just not how most companies are hiring (aside from focusing on the cover letter). I do think that you have to have that characteristic or special thing you can bring to a team in order to stand out from the crowd and get a job.
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