Week 3. Post 1.

Prompt: Invite your supervisor or other colleague for coffee and to learn about his/her career story. Discuss what you learned.

I had the first chat with both my co-worker intern and a supervisor early in the week and got a lot of valuable insights from the conversations with them.  My mentor has been telling me how dedicated he was to the field of Computer Science and how he has always been focusing on one language which was Java and now he is very proficient with it. He said he was able to succeed in his career by being able to solve complex problems with Java. On the contrary, my other co-worker told me how he was switching back and forth between CS and statistics and ended up knowing a lot of different languages little not feeling confident with any of them; although he got a lot of various stats-related languages in his skill set. 

After this conversation, I realized that I might be making a mistake by diving into a lot of different programming languages and scratching each one on a surface, rather than making me prepare myself within a framework of one programming language (like JavaScript, C++, Java, etc) and focusing on solving complex problems with this language. 

So now, I will try to reconsider my plan of action by making sure to have a go-to programming language for myself, rather than having a lot of different languages in my skill set whereas I don’t quite know how to solve complex problems in any one of them. This way, I can ensure that I focus on the computer scientist mindset and cultivate a problem-solving skill set, rather than simply aggregating multiple languages on my resume and not knowing how to solve the problem in any of them.