My sixth week as a Mission Techie.

This is now my sixth week as a Mission Techie in the program.  Two more weeks to go and it will be our graduation (hooray!). Every day is a learning experience. Olivia taught us how to build our own resumes properly. She showed us the dos and don’ts when writing a resume. I thought that my resume looked better after I edited it and followed Olivia’s guide.

We also went to JONES IT this week with Leo for a tour [JONES IT, by the way, is a tech support company that services most companies and residents in the Bay Area; and MEDA (Mission Economic Development Agency) is one of them.] There, we met Edwin, a former Mission Techies alumnus who toured us in the company. He told us about his job and how JONES IT started. I was fascinated in the story because they only started small (5 people or less) then they doubled each year after.

Also, we had a guest from USCF (c/o Karen), and she talked about her work as a Digital Communications Director. Her story was interesting because she comes from a different field (not computer technology) and yet she learned how to make websites and made it as her job.

Another thing that we learned this week, is the how we can make conditionals statements in Java.  I like the lesson because I can manipulate the output based the different conditions that I can set. Last, we learned about virtual machines in Networking. Virtual machines are fake machines that can be created from on single machine. It segments the resources that one machine has and from those segments you can put any operating system you want. For example, you can have a Windows 7 and MAC OSX running at the same time in your laptop. Sounds good, right?

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