Doing OK?
I was perusing some of my fellow coursemates' recent blogs a while back, and found meself reading many thoughts not so close to the undergoing project, and think to myself, is it people caring less about what is at hand (well I only mean less)? Is it the way it should be to think and write about general stuff? Am I doing ok for just thinking and concerning my current task, which is filled with a big mess of detailed technical stuff? coz even disregarding my language ineffectivity, I cannot come up with any deep thoughts right now to write down even in chinese. Does this mean Im not mature enough to care about things that a grown up should always ponder in their everyday life? coz all that was filled in my mind for the past weeks is simply about the apps I am making. I would find myself so empty if I am to write abstract stuff supposedly drawn from the class. hmm, makes me being questioned myself: your can't be so simple a person, yea?
Well I think things are going fine. I'm just sometimes a bit fretful.
Pursuit for excellency
how to make a great piece of art? only my point of view: Only if you are pursuing excellency and perfection. No other way will do. A good example is a freak called Michaelangelo. Seeing his works will tell, that what kind of stunning splendor can be achieved by desire, and passion, and desire, and passion, and more. making an app can be an art, yet great art piece doesn't mean great profit, which leaves a choice for different kinds of people to make. Profits matters most of the time, yet often excellency also brings happiness. right now I just don't know what kind of person I could turn out to be in the context of the above scenario. Prior to all that concerning, however, I have to make meself a much better craftsman.
What else to learn?
honestly speaking I hate camping in COM1 overnight, coz recently I really feel somekind of energy falling short, which makes me quite low sometime (especially when suddenly bringing into to mind another blog or homework to be done..), but I obviously cannot leave my dear energetic partners spending the rest of the night without me. Well according to my observation, my team is the most hardworking one, with no other team I have witnessed been staying up every single day since we launched 2 weeks ago. I must say this exhaustive approach really gets me learn a lot, but to be honest so far what I have learned are those can be learned (by self learning) in other SE classes. I may not be aware of something, but I kinda feel there should be something else to learn. that cannot be teamwork, coz every project based course trains you with that. Self learning ability? maybe, but that's what I've already acquired, right now is to master it. and several other not-so-unique skills I will not mention here. Time management can be one. I heard people saying we're gonna learn a lot of things before and right after I took the course, so far I havn't touch many of them yet, I think. but I guess this is a gradual process, maybe I'm just not feeling it.
is it people caring less about what is at hand (well I only mean less)?
ReplyDeleteNope. They probably just needed to talk about something else to keep their sanity. :-)
how to make a great piece of art? only my point of view: Only if you are pursuing excellency and perfection.
Agree. That's pretty much how you get good at ANYTHING at all. :-P
I kinda feel there should be something else to learn.
Yep, that something else is beyond software engineering. It involves figuring out WHY you're building the app you're building, why people should care about your app, and if they are not already, HOW to make them care.... stuff like that .... common sense really - but in a couple of days, we'd figure out how much of that common sense you and the rest of your team figured out.
It's important to work hard, but hard work is not enough. You have to figure out how to work smart too. Again, we'd figure out in a couple of days how smart your team worked. :-)