Colton Bybee

4/18/2015

Module 13

For this assignment we have a lot of options of what to write our paper on. I have chosen to write my paper on a few different thing. I want to talk about a few of the things I have learned from taking this class. I have learned so many different things pertaining to ways to run a business and ways big company run their businesses. I have learned what works and what doesn’t work. By taking this class it has caused me to do a little research on some great companies. One of the companies I decide to write about was amazon a company I think is ran so great. Amazon does so many great things they have such great customer services and provide more goods and services than a lot of people know about. Also by taking this class I have had the chance to dive deeper into what computers have done and how they have changed the world. Going into this class I didn’t know what to expect but this class has been great. A few of the things I want to discuss in my essay is what I have learned, what we all can learn and why I like this class.

What I have learned

Like I have stated earlier I have learned a lot from this class. Each week we read a lot of the class text book. I learned a lot from what I was reading and from the points the book brings to your mind. As I would first start reading the chapter or even the chapter title I would think what could I possibly learn from this chapter. But then I would read and it would make me start to think and I would learn how so business are run and I would find myself getting on my phone looking up words or different things about companies it was really cool. I really liked the weeks when we would take a break from our class text book and would get the chances to write about a broader subject and get to choose what we were going to write about.

What we all can learn

As I would read or do research on things I was learning from this class I would a lot of the time think about if many people knew what I was reading and if they did know about it how would the world be different and would it make the world a better place I think it would.

Why I like this class

In this part I will be completely honest. I really enjoyed the way this class was taught and the way the class was structured. This class is not an upper division class and it wasn’t treated like one. Now I say this for a reason and I believe a good reason. I am not a fan of when you take a class that is a general class but if you didn’t know it you would have thought it was an upper division. I think our teacher should continue to teach it that way.

In conclusion I really liked this class and I really like the way it was taught and structured. There are a lot of things you could learn from this class no matter what field of study you are going into. I think this class is a great general’s class. I live there is so many things we can learn from this class that we can apply to the world to help make the world a better place for all of us to live in and for the many generations to come.

 

Colton Bybee

4/11/2015

Module 12

                The statement why the future doesn’t need us. This statement can bring up a lot of different topics to talk about. My personal option the future does need us. This statement is referring to how computers would be able to do what we do. In recent years there has been movies that are made about how computers take over. There is always a common problem to that. Humans have a gut feeling or an instinct that computers do not have computers are smart and can do a lot of things. But computers can only do what a human has programed a computer to do. It does not think on it own and first off a human has to create the computer making it capable to do the things humans want it to do. I don’t think computers will ever replace what a human can do. Computers have become and will continue to become such a huge part of everyday life. But there will always be the need for the human touch the ability to make the right diction based off of what humans can do. This is a very important part in my option of why humans will never be replaced by a computer humans are much more important than computers and will always make better dictions. So the statement should be the future does need us.

                Being educated on computers in jr high and throughout high school. In jr high I had my first computer class I would say still to this day that class was the most informative computer class I have taken and probably where I have learned the most. The teacher teaching this class was very nice and willing to help you individually if you didn’t understand something. I learned more about using word, excel and most of the windows offices. In high school I continued my education learning about computers. Here I learned even more about using word, excel and Microsoft office. We also learned how to create websites, movies and many more cool features you can do with the touch of a button. One thing I have always struggled with is I have to look at the key board when I am typing it is hard for me to type while looking at the computer screen. The class in jr high and the class in high school helped me get better at typing.

                How computers helped me on my mission. Computers where a big part of my mission especially to help with communicating with my family while serving in Washington Seattle. Every preparation day on my mission we would go to the library and email our family, friends and our mission president each week. I always looked forward to this day on my mission to be able to communicate family and friends as well as my mission president. This experience made me very grateful for computers and the ability they have to help people in whatever task they are trying to accomplish.

                How computers help me in my work. Computers are a big part of my job I am constantly using a computer to write reports, look at bids, create drawings, put in notes or look up products. Computers are a big part of a lot of jobs these days

                In conclusion while doing this assignment I have had the chance to look back and see what role computers have played in my life and being educated on them. Computers are a big part of our life’s and are becoming more and more a part of our life’s each day. I hope that we all use them wisely and create great things by the click of a button.

Colton Bybee

2/7/2015

Ist

Module 11

 

            For this assignment, I have chosen to write my IT job interview on a man named Mike Wiser. For Mike Wiser’s job, he creates apps from his computer for cell phones. He is the product manager which means he is heavily involved in the programing for the apps. One thing that I really think is awesome is that, even though he gets to work home Monday through Friday, his brain is working twenty four seven on new ideas for apps and ways to get people to use the apps he has already made. Here is a little back ground on Mike. He graduated from Brigham Young University with his bachelors in engineering. Right after graduating, Mike landed a job with Iomega and help develop their overseas department traveling all over Asia. He also helped out with creating new ways to store memory to things such as floppy disks and SD Cards.

            Before sitting down to interview Mike, I did a little research about apps and how to make them and what all goes into the process. As I started to do the research, I was amazed at all the pieces of the puzzle that have to come together in order to make an app for a phone and the storage that has to be used so that a person could continue to use the app daily. For example, let’s take a basic gaming app. It first starts off as an idea. The next thing you have to do is draw it out and come up with an initial plan. The company then has to hire all the right people for the process to begin, including a product manager, computer programmers, IT people and the list goes on and on. This is just the beginning of the whole process. There still has to be someone who to run all the data and servers to hold all the users and make sure the app runs successfully, not to mention all the tweaks and fixes that are constantly being made for the app to run smoother.

            As Mike and I sat down for the interview I first asked him about what drives him every morning to want to make apps. Mike said “I have always loved coming up with new ideas and watching them come to life” he goes on to say “every day I get to turn on my computer and just do what I love”. Mike’s right. Many of use to work each day and have limits on what we can or can’t do, but Mike is always able to start with an idea each day and then he takes that idea and expands on it to see if it works. The next thing I asked Mike was what the hardest part about his job was. He said “It can be hard sometimes to get all the pieces of the puzzle meaning all the people involved on the same page” I think this part of jobs and of life in general is important is always a little difficult, especially when we are not all on the same page. But Mike said “it is also good to have conference calls and hear why people don’t agree with others ideas. By doing that we can come up with a lot of ideas and some may or may not work for one specific app but might be the start of another one.”

            I really enjoyed interviewing Mike and, by doing so, I was able to learn a lot about the IT world and how to make apps. As I open apps on my phone from now on, I think I will think more about the process of what went into making the app and how it is running and operating as I use it.