Education Narratives

In the Article "How I Learned to Program Computers" Feross Aboukhadijeh tells how after building numerous websites, starting from a young age, he has taught himself how to program computers. What I can take away from this model in order to help myself create my own educational story is the ability to write an effective narrative essay. Similar to the article I will need to begin my paper with a brief summary of what educational experience I will be writing about in my paper. Feross tells how he prepared himself before learning to program and what it takes to become a programmer. He tells the audience that the importance of becoming a programmer is to practice a lot. Like Feross, I will share to readers how I became an arborist and skilled in pruning. Explaining the learning process in detail and sharing examples that consist of personal experiences on the field will help hold the readers attention and become interested. Holding the readers interest is important, as well as convincing them that what you are writing about is true. By doing this Feross creates a timeline of his websites; beginning with his first website created at the age 11 or 12. He continues to talk about the improvements he has made in his websites as he got older. He leads up to his big viral hit, YouTube Instant, as well as other popular sites. The way he starts his article with his first learning experience and finishes with what he has achieved from his new skill is a good way of filling in the body of the essay. I will share the process of becoming an arborist; beginning with my first learning experience and leading up to the level of expertise I'm at today. What I liked about the article "How I Learned to live Google-free" is how Joshua J. Romero dismisses a past learning experience and replaces it with a new learning experience. The article didn't offer many tips I could apply it to my own paper, however, mentioning in my essay what I tools and methods I used prior to learning all about arboriculture is a good way of displaying a before and after effect.