The Witty Tech Newbie

  What a ride it has been getting an introduction to Information Technology! The IT field is diverse and ever-changing, which makes it exciting to learn.  There are many different paths an IT student could be interested in pursuing as a future career.  IT careers span all the fundamentals of the field, past, present, and future.  With so many possibilities, how would one decide which way to go?  I decided to take a brief look at some of the IT careers available in each of the areas studied in this course, and what these professions entail. Hopefully this will shed some light on the question we all must ask ourselves: what do I want to be when I grow up?    A Computer Systems Analyst is a business’s IT partner in terms of the history of computers and the means by which they operate.  They review past, present, and future technology needs to make recommendations on how the business can run more efficiently (Vahid & Lysec...

Beginning an introduction to programming languages is an exciting start to the IT world! Programming languages allow us to harness different aspects of technology and use our creativity to imagine what could be. This journey began with a dive into Machine Language, Assembly Language, and High‐Level Languages, and ended with small project created in Scratch. These languages built upon each other and provided a new opportunity, and each has its own place where it best fits. Much like how the technology we use fits in to place, so does each person entering the technology field, with their own preference on the type of technology they use and the languages within it. It all fits together like the puzzle pieces that were so beautifully designed for Scratch.   Creating a project in Scratch was a fun, hands‐on introduction to programming languages. At first it felt a little overwhelming to dive into a program I hadn’t used before, but the platform was user‐friendly and easy to figure out....