Paul Bradley

09-25-13

English 101

In the articles “How I Learned to Program” by Feross Aboukhadijeh and “How I Learned to live Google Free” By Joshua J Romero, Both talk about an experience they have had on an educational journey they have had while learning how to do something. In the case of Aboukhadijeh he talks about how he started his adventure on programming at a young age and never gave up, only continuing to learn and practice programming. I can use this as a model for how I learned something at a young age and continued to practice and learn this hobby till I mastered it. That topic could be biking, at a young age I learned how to bike just like everyone else, only I continued to bike and now I like to bike, I have also learned how to maneuver around streets. The next step I could go for is becoming a more powerful biker so I can bike for longer distances or up steeper hills. I could also use Aboukhadijeh article as a model for how I never gave up on something or persevered through or with something and how I learned from it. That could be about procrastination and my one man mental war against it. I like most other people procrastinate, procrastination cost me a great opportunity and from that moment forward I have worked to stop procrastinating and to procrastinate less. Romero wrote about how he wanted to not use Google at all or be associated with the company at all. Romero’s article had similar undertones as Aboukhadijeh, they both share the story of how they didn't give up on something that was hard for them to start. But Romero focused more on how he worked harder and harder, and persevered through his journey and he did not talk about how it is something that he started as a kid. Romero explains on how he learned that Google was collecting as much data as possible about people and using it to make more and profit from it. This alone I could use as an example or model, I could talk about how I learned about a topic and got more and more invested in learning till I got to the point of doing something about it. After the point where Romero learns as much as possible about Google he then deepens his severing with Google to include all of its products, not just the Google search engine. By doing so he deepens his doing away with Google. Again I could use this as a model for a writing, I could write about a plot I learned or something I studied that got deeper and deeper. All I all there is few things that I can pick out of each article that I could potentially use as a model for my paper.