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In the book, Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell, the author is challenging our views of how people become successful. He is saying that to get to where you want to be you can’t rely solely on hard work or determination. It takes much more than that, something that many of us don’t get; opportunities. If you want to be successful, you need a series of opportunities that present themselves to you at the right time, to put you ahead of everyone else. He proves this idea in chapter…

Beyond School Books: Podcast #83, Girls Who Code In anticipation of the International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF podcast moderator Alex Goldmark interviews Rashma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. The Girls Who Code organization seeks challenge many of the culturally reinforced perception and constructs believed as contributing to the low and declining representation of women within the computer sciences industries of North America. The organization provides confidence enriching…

Database Administrator The career I have chosen to research is database administrator. According to a report released by the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment of database (DBAs) is projected to grow 11 percent from the 2014 to 2024, faster than the average for all occupations. Growth in this occupation will be driven by the increased data needs of companies in all sectors of the economy”(1). The 11 percent might not seem like a lot compared to the specific field but if you really…

to introducing computer programming into their national curriculum, and into elementary school. In Estonia, they are teaching students as early as first grade how to create their own computer programs and games. England, is close to updating their national curriculum which will affect every student starting when they’re five years old (Gardiner). While all these other countries are improving their school curriculum, the U.S. is starting to fall behind, and…

Advocate Illinois Masonic has a rich history in how it became the hospital it is today. Before it was called Illinois Masonic, it was Chicago Union Hospital. The Union Hospital was organized during the time of rebuilding post the great Chicago fire in 1901. Belden Avenue Baptist Church Steadfast Sunday School organized the union hospital. Amongst the board members of the hospital were some Masons who formed an association for the purpose of providing free medical and surgical treatment for…

Two articles talk about how computer software is becoming a trend in grading students’ essays. Computer software that grades multiple-choice exams has been around for a while. New software has been developed in more recent years to tackle grading essays. Computer grading has evolved in the recent years, but the journey of computers grading essays has just begun. Computers grading essays is still a new concept; therefore, many kinks still need to be addressed. Like all new ideas, computers…

Information Technology (Programmer) The career choice of choosing Computer Programmer is something that will make a person wants to know how a computer software works. The fun of knowing that several people can write about a program using different terms. Computer Programmer is a great field to learn about all the behind the scenes that it takes for a software to run. There are many attributes of being a computer programmer. In today’s society, being a Computer Programmer is a career that will…

Famed English novelist, Jane Austen once stated “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world” simply put, if a woman is given the proper opportunity in terms of education and enlightenment she will be prepared for what the world has to offer. In recent times fewer women, especially minorities, have been involved in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). This information serves as a chilling contradiction to the late 1960s when technological jobs such as…

implementation team. Along with implementations, we have to programmer and a senior programmer. Symitar is known for is its ability to be customized. Especially in terms of work flow. Symitar uses the PowerOn programming to create user-defined data mining queries, present detailed information in charts and graphs, automate specific manual tasks, and to streamline operations (Symitar, n.d.). Advia Credit Union uses internal programmers to create this code or outsources the work to outside…

At that point, you can move into a management or an architect position. In a management position, you start being in charge of teams of programmers and delegating work. In an architect position, you start writing design documents, deciding what technologies make sense, developing software frameworks, etc. Within HIT, the path of a software developer is basically the same. It is best for someone that wants to develop software for the health care arena to have had previous experience with the…