What are you going to be when you grow up? What are my passions? Who am I? What does it means to be alive? What's the meaning of my life? Am I different from other people? Am I alone in the world? --- Have you ever wondering any of these kind of questions? How can you be sure to always be yourself in the world full of distractions? I will bring in some basic knowledge of science, philosophical thoughts as well as some comparative religions ideas to help student to learn the ways of thinking. Teaching philosophy is not the goal of this class, but the goal of the class is to help students to learn some basic skills on self development to see beyond what they are now so they can become what they want to be tomorrow.

This course will help students who are interested in becoming a software engineer to learn what it's like to be a software engineer and what are the career paths they can choose. I will combine my own career experience and the industry statistics to paint the picture so you can be aware and prepared to what's ahead of you. Hope this will help you to be more successful in your career in computer science.