Educational Narrative: Learning from Ferros

Reading how people got to where they are today can often be a useful thing for us. Given the opportunity to read about Feross’s first years in computer programming often makes us go back in time and think about how we began doing some of the things we love doing today. Reading about his start from the age of 11, and his ongoing practice and pursuit of something he loved, brings us back to some of the fondest memories of our childhood. This article and website can help us a lot in our first writing assignment; an Education Narrative. This article, in a sense, gives us a framework on the important details we need to include and how we came about those. Reading this article, we can clearly see the Feross included all the important steps he took to get to the programming world he is in today. When recalling on something we learned, we must also do this. It is often hard to recall events that we mastered at a young age, but when they have a lasting impact on our lives we can almost give you exact details on what we did to continue building that knowledge. Feross provides us with this step-by-step layout that he recalls on what got him into being a successful computer programmer, and reminds us that in order to succeed at something we must not be afraid to try it and we must also continually practice this skill until it is mastered. Using this article in terms of our education narrative, we must pick an activity or event that we love doing, because clearly Ferros loves what he does, and this is why he can remember almost every detail that brought him to where he is today.