Today Alex discussed briefly what Operations, Development and DevOps are. DevOps is an interesting field where one is a jack of all trades in both hardware and software with generalized skill set. A sort of fixer that bridges the gap between hardware and software needs to create IT solutions. Next, I helped out my CTT …
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Today the CTT students spent the day with Jacob and the PRO. We had an interesting session where we practiced saying no to a customer in a polite way and sort of hold our ground to the company policy. The objective is to deny the customer request and offering alternatives and not just turning them …
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Today Alex continued our journey into logic by asking us to help create pseudo code for a Number Guessing Game. It was fun trying to think of the errors in the code which often programmers may tend to forget satisfied that one has a working code but not might be fool proof. We continued with …
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Today everybody got a taste of programming using pseudo code. Alex gave a hypothetical example of code to run in a vending machine. It was a fun practice figuring out the logic by looking and simulating how a vending machine should be programmed to respond. Our project for the week is working with the mBot …
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Today at Employment Services we started answering some interview questions that we shared with Aubrey. We also did a mock interview using the same questions with two partners shifting roles as an interviewer and interviewee. I had Greg and Rolanda as my partners and we all had productive sessions. The practice helps a lot in …
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Today Alex shared an intriguing problem he had when he re-imaged 6 computers at the Scott classroom. 3 computer was imaged correctly but the remaining 3 others had a blank screen. On these problem computers the caps lock turned on but with a delay and was obviously doing something in the background. So we did …
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Today we discussed the problems we had yesterday in setting up our network. There were a number of issues with resetting the router and having interfering routers with the same SSID. However, the crucial information that Alex clarified was to check the IP address of the computers we were using if they were using the …
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Today we did a review of networking with Omar a new student at CTT. Our ticket for today was to build a network using the basic building block as a template. The network will be composed of a Wireless router, 2 PCs and a laptop. We have to do a hardware reset on the router …
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Today at Employment Services each of one shared our overall experience in the recently concluded Career Fair. It seems everyone observed the same things that I did such as the venue being too small, the number of applicants, companies that were not there, etc. It was an opportunity to experience and be better prepared the …
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Today I worked Frank with the Hardware Rehab. Elizabeth, Jimmy and Jose also worked in this hardware project. I must admit that going through the different computers and testing each one is somewhat tiring. We were encountering different problems such as unresponsive systems or peculiar behavior like being unable to boot from USB but able …