Task 2

Personality test

Today I took a personality test and I was surprised to find my personality about which I was not aware of. My personality was described as "Determined Realist" and I was pretty amazed about it. Below are some points about my personality as found by personality test

1.     Practical, traditional and organized.

2.     Likely to be athletic.

3.     Not interested in theory or abstraction unless they see the practical application.

4.     Have clear visions of the way things should be.

5.     Loyal and hard-working.

6.     Like to be in charge.

7.     Exceptionally capable in organizing and running activities.

8.     "Good citizens" who value security and peaceful living.

After the personality test I looked at these points as tried think about myself and I found these points are true.

The personality test also pointed out some of the career fields that I could fit with my personality and which are Military, business administrators, managers, police/detective work, judges, financial officers, teachers, sales representatives, government workers, insurance agents, underwriters, nursing administrators, trade and technical teachers. Although the personality test pointed out some career fields for me and currently I am not heading toward any of the career path stated above but I have always dreamed of being a soldier and serving my country.

The personality test also gave a chart about my personality. The chart shows that

·         I am little more extroverted than introverted

            [extrovert- somebody whose interests are directed outside the self,introvert-

             somebody whose feelings and thoughts are directed inward]

·         I am more sensing than intuitive

  [intuitive- knowing things instinctively]

·         I choose thinking over the feelings

·         I am little more judging than perceiving

The personality test also gave the names of the renowned persons with similar personality as mine which are given below.

·         Andrew Jackson, American president

·         Bette Davis, actress

·         Elliot Ness, prohibition agent

·         George W. Bush, American president

·         Grover Cleveland, American president

·         James Monroe, American president

·         John D. Rockefeller, industrialist and philanthropist

·         Lyndon B. Johnson, American president

·         Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart

·         William Henry Harrison, American president

This personality test gave many personality about me and I found this to be true. The test showed that I am little extroverted, sensing, more thinking and judging and showed the renowned persons name with whom my personality matched and I found this test exciting and informative as this test helped me to find my own personality.

Task 1

Below are two of the ability I should aim to acquire during this course as a computing student.

1.    Use criteria and specifications appropriate to specific problems and plan solutions.

Being a computing student I will face the different problems in my career and for that I must acquire some skills to handle the problems which come ahead of me. I must learn to handle the problems during my computing course and gather experiences which will be useful for my career. Following are the steps that I should learn and experience when the problems comes in-front of me

·         Identify and understand the problem- when the problem comes, first I must be able to identify the problems and understand the complications of the problem.

·         Think of logical solutions- after understanding the problem, I must think of the logical solutions which will help to solve the problem.

·         Choose the best solution- I must select the best and logical solution which will lead me to solve the problem.

·         Evaluation of the problem after solution- I must check whether the problem is solved with no side-effects otherwise look for other solution.

Above are the steps that I must experience during my computing course to face the problems In coming future.

2.    Work as a development team member, recognizing the different roles within a team and different ways of organizing teams

As a computing student and making career in software development, I must work in a group in my career so I must gain experience on group work and recognize and respect the roles of the members of the group. Working in a group with unknown peoples will be hard in coming future so I want to gain some group working experience and find the complications during group work and minimize these errors from my side. As we already have done our first group work project on our 1^st semester and being the leader of one group I personally encountered and experienced some complications that come during group work and I am trying to minimize errors of groups that comes from my side which will be a huge step for my career. I am also looking forward to learn different ways of organizing teams and team leadership.

So, above were the ability that I aim to acquire during this course.