As I read the essays “How I learned
to program computers,” and “How I learned to live Google free,” I thought about
how to use them as models for the first assignment. Feross’s Narrative was
about how he basically taught himself to program computers by building tons of websites.
He spent a lot of his time programming and that’s why he got good at it.
Romero’s narrative was more about the experiment of trying to cut ties with Google
after realizing what a pervasive company it is. Feross started at the every
beginning, with the very first website he ever created. He explained how he did
it and then he discussed his next website, what he did differently and what he
learned from the previous one and so on and so forth. If I were to write my
education narrative on a certain experience where I had to persistently tried
something to get good at it or learn it, this would be a very good model to
use. Romero explained one by one how he cut out each facet of his relationship
with Google, his gmail account, his search engine, etc. His approach was more
step-by-step, while Feross’s was a more progressive description.
