Just a few hours ago, I was thinking, it has been such a long time since I have written something inspirational, or something that actually meant anything. We I don't think I am going to do that today. But what I am doing is putting up this video. There is this lecturer in Carnegie Melon University called Randy Pausch. He has been diagnosed with cancer and is terminally ill. But despite that, hiis outlook on life and the way he carries himself is really mind blowing. The below video is a 70 something minute lecture that he gave at his university. It's not a technical lecture, rather it's a lecture about life. I found it really interesting and inspirational.
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture. How to live your life. To achieve your childhood dreams :
This was quite a lecture. I also went to the Alice website and read up on it. Of course for me today, Alice would not be a useful tool. But definitely a few years ago when I was learning Java and all the various programming languages it would have been a wonderful tool. I guess it would want you to start coding.
Today after working in a production environment for over 2 and a half years I look at project development in a very different light compared to when I started down this road. I used to think, Coding was a nightmare. Never did have the confidence that I could do something like that. I thought, you'd need to know all there is in the language and you need to be a technical genius and just rattle out code as fast as you could. As time as has gone by I have realized more the value of analysis and the understanding the needs of the application. It more a matter of thinking logically than about coding. I don't have an exceptionally vast skill set, but it has developed to a reasonable extent over the passing time. I guess work experience does change the perspective a bit. I never really thought about this until I wrote it down today. But it does feel good.
Kudos to Alice and their creators and a heartfelt thank you to Dr. Pausch for the lecture. It was worth listening to, was great.
