Response to "How I Learned to Program Computers"

I found the article, “How I learned to Program Computers” by Feross Aboukhadijeh, very inspiring. It is proof that the motto's, “If at first you don’t succeed try, try again” and “Practice make Perfect.” really are true.  The only way that anyone has ever gotten good at anything was by practicing and doing. And that is exactly what Feross did. In terms of using this this information for my first writing assignment…I think that the best way to start is by doing, which has already happened. In having blog entries that we are posting every week that include thoughts and commenting on class mates’ writings we are already preparing ourselves for our first big writing assignment, even if we are not aware of it yet.  We are working out kinks, learning from our mistakes and figuring out what styles of gathering information, processing, and putting it into use, work for us.  He also mentioned that going in hand with actually doing what you are trying to achieve is doing research for it while you go. In terms of making that applicable to what our first writing assignment it would be good to do some research about our topics, seek others’ thoughts about work we have done so far for critique, editing, and revision. Sometimes it helps to hear/ see things from a different perspective, in order to write about the subject in a way that will be more appealing to your audience.  I feel that the advice that Ferross had is applicable to pretty much anything you want to accomplish in life, everything starts by doing