Introduction
Julia loves to attend tech events and meet people in the city of Vancouver and also in the city of Seattle in 2016. So far in 2016, she has attended more than 6 tech events. Two hosted by Microsoft, SQL server in Seattle (March 31, Microsoft Database Systems Engineering Open House), Vancouver Tech Woman in Vancouver (Sept.); Two hosted by Amazon (May 3, Amazon web service talk; June 23, RDS talk); One by Arista Network; One by Tableau, algorithm/ data structure interview workshop.
Seattle two day vacation - tech event trip
Such a beautiful season with tour of Seattle, so many good memories and good laughs with friends.Microsoft:
In March of 2016, she took 2 days vacation and drove to the city of Seattle to attend Microsoft SQL server tech event, and visited her FAU classmates in Seattle.
And then, she visited the headquarter of Amazon, near union lake.
Tech events are fun
She had such great time to watch the video and learned a few things on Oct. 19, 2016
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
https://www.facebook.com/gracehoppercelebration/
Entertainment episodes in tech event:
1. Episode 1
Personal coding blog is such an entertainment topic in tech event:
A senior principle programmer (A) and Julia's conversation:
A's Questions: Who can tell quicksort best performance or worst performance?
Julia:
I can tell, the worst of quicksort is linear. Because I just wrote a blog about quicksort.
A's question: where is the blog? Show me on my cellular phone?
Julia:
"Julia coding blog" search Google.com
"quick sort" search blog
2. Episode 2
A senior principle programmer (A) and Julia's conversation:
A's question: why do you write she instead of I?
Julia:
It is more close to reader, instead of I, I, I, too self-center; I choose to write as she likes; it is a style. More picky, close to reader instead using "I".
A's question: where is the code? Show me your code.
Julia:
...
2010 - 2015 five years
Julia attended more than 5 social events in the city of Vancouver (from 2010 to 2015) hosted by facebook. And almost every time, she asked around how to improve algorithm problem solving, being competitive on algorithm problem solving.
She learned a lot, but she wanted to be a competitive programmer.
2015 - Now
She decided to take some risk, and take algorithm problem solving as a highest priority in her life; she works on goals she has more control, like HackerRank contest performance improvement.
Writing is most challenging for her, so she started to write more through her coding blog, and also log her practice very honestly.
Best learning is by doing, not just reading other people's work; Best learning is also a sharing, willing to take some risk to make mistakes, share the pain, struggling to make a little progress every time, and get connected to more people, motivate others to work hard as well.
Share my favorite quote about practice - when to stop?
Don't practice 'til you get it right. Practice 'til you can't get it wrong. #tennis #motivation pic.twitter.com/GNpWdF372B— Tennis Coaching™️ (@tennisdothow) August 20, 2015
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