Today's event was the 5th Alumni Symposium for the Computer Science Department at the College of Charleston. We all sat down to listen to a "3 minute madness" presentation by each of the presenters. Between the information presented by each person, I was hearing the same concepts taught to us by the Software Engineering courses. There was much to do about the proper gathering of requirements and communication among people involved in a software project.
It was refreshing to hear about what these representatives look for in a qualified candidate in hiring someone for a position in their companies. The fact that one need not know everything there is about computer science in the general sense, but rather know the specifics of selected pieces in order to acquire the job wanted, is the idea I try to follow. I actually became interested in the database side of things in CS, and I am taking up a Microsoft Certification course to be a DBA starting March 2nd of this year. In the end, I consider the Symposium to have been a great experience for all the CS students to get an idea of how their skills will be applied at the job of their choice.
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