Welcome to my blog!

Hello everyone!

My name is Niina and I am 19 years old. I study Information Processing Science in University of Oulu. When I started my studies I did not have any experience in coding. Before my studies I thought that the most challenging part of my studies would be English. I don’t think my strength is in English skills.

If you never try you won’t ever win,

is my motto.

During my studies I have noticed that we have to read a lot of English texts and articles. Sometimes it is difficult to figure out the main point of the text. I usually try to understand the main point of the text first and if I do not understand I ask my friends for help. I think the problem with my English communication skills is vocabulary.

What is the project I am the most proud of? I think it is our homework on a programming course. On that course we learn to program in c language by programming an ATM. That was not a team project, but we got to work together and helped each other in all the challenges we could not solve alone. It was nice to solve the problems together. The most challenging part was solving problems and understanding the assignment. That project taught me to be thorough and persistent and to ask for help when having problems. Because that was my first and only project in programming, I am proud of it. 

We had six milestones in the project. First we had to analyze the operation of the ATM and then we made a harsh version of the code. Third, fourth and fifth milestones went step by step deeper into the code. Final, we made a report that included information about the program and test results.

I hope keeping this blog helps me learning to communicate in English.