Bridging the gap again

“The greatest potential that Germany has so far left untapped is girls and women in IT and the digital industry. […] In Germany, just 16.8% of tech specialists are women.” (eco.de).

Findings like these inspired me to look a bit more underneath the hood of what I was dealing with in my daily translation routine, be it UI content or neural translation machines.

I finished the SoloLearn Python programming course and then discovered this groundbreaking course: CS50x.

Taught by the engaging professor David J. Malan, it encompassed abstraction, algorithms, data structures and much more in C, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. As its main goal “to inspire students to explore unfamiliar waters, without fear of failure”, the focus was on solving real-world problems efficiently.

My favorite challenges were: solving a crime via strategical SQL database queries, recovering JPEGs from a forensic image, identifying persons based on their DNA and implementing a program that computes a text’s readability with the Coleman-Liau index.

I completed this course with a 100 % grade and developed this website as part of the assignments. You can see my final project here.

My next field of keen interest is cybersecurity. Besides logical thinking and persistence, programming requires accuracy and creativity (like translating), and I look forward to deepening this path.