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- Seeing people use a software that I built,
and that was the coolest thing ever.
- Computer science is not just programming,
it's a lot richer than that.
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- I really like kind of building the software
and putting it out there, and building something
that wasn't made before, and having people use it.
- I've had the opportunity to build a web application
for the Hackathon this term.
I built an Android application, which I'd never done before.
And I built a desktop application,
and this time I'm building a Java application.
This summer I have an internship with Google,
where I'll be doing cloud computing stuff,
so that's like, just like broadening my experience.
- Computer science is a lot more than coding.
It gives us the opportunity to work with other fields.
We have a lot of collaborations with the sciences,
we just hired last year a computational biologist.
We also have connections with the arts.
We have a course called Art, Interactivity, and Robotics.
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- It's a beeper bot.
- I had not taken any computer science or programming
before my first term at Carleton,
so I thought I was gonna be like some bio major
or physics major, some kind of natural science,
but I took Intro to Computer Science my first term.
- So I just took it for the fun of it,
and really, really enjoyed it, 'cause then
I was exposed to so many things that I never thought
I could actually do, and I was given the opportunity
to do one of those things and I'm like, okay,
I totally should do the rest of these things.
This is awesome, this is what I wanna do forever,
pretty much, yeah.
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- Many of the projects that we do in our courses,
and much of the day-to-day work is done in groups or pairs.
Because we know that that's how students
are going to be working out in the real world,
and it's a lot more fun to work that way,
and it's a lot more effective to work that way.
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- Ooh, that's good, I like that.
- [Professor] Students get to collaborate with faculty,
both on research, but also increasingly
on civic engagement projects, so, for instance,
working with the Alzheimer's community in Northfield
to develop an application geared at caregivers.
- Maybe you have a brother and sister
taking care of their mom, and maybe one of them
is across the country, so our app's gonna help them
keep up to date with the financial, legal,
medical, personal aspects of mom's life.
Maybe you have like a cousin who you don't wanna know,
or you don't want them knowing
all of the financial information, that kind of thing,
so we're gonna be able to
filter out access to information
depending on the caregiver.
- [Student] So maybe I want her to be able to see
just personal things, I'm gonna give her access to that.
Okay, and then maybe I'll refresh this and you'll see.
There we go.
- It's something that we didn't think of ourselves, but
going out in the community, that kind of helped
us see that problem, so we added that.
- With CS, you actually help, you actually solve problems
and also coming from Africa,
I'm very passionate about technology
and it's awesome that I'm going to have a job
that will actually change lives.
It's, for me, I guess that's the best feeling
in the world, yeah.
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