Computer skills have already become essential. This is no surprise as everything is getting digitalized and integrated. The more we go, the more important and essential these tech skills will become.
However, not everyone needs to learn these fancy things to save the world. From the observation, it seems like what’s usually expected is an adequate level of Microsoft Office skills. Words, Powerpoint and Excel to be more specific. This is the basic and that’s a good start.
While some people struggle with what’s perceived to be the basic, others are reaching out to other realms, programming for example. This is usually not pursued by students from the business administration major nor the social science major. As for the person who is interested in this field as well, I can only guess one might simply think these skills are irrelevant or think that it is not worth their time.
Popularity in learning these new tools makes sense to me though. There are great, powerful tools like Tableau that help you to visualize data in a better and more intuitive way, and programming skills themselves may come in handy in the later stage of life. Maybe this could be the extra edge for one to reach their goals.
What is important is that more people are showing interest in technology and programming. But as these people are the minority in APU, it’s hard to find other fellows with whom they can share information, experience, and interact.
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APU Tech club is a community founded for those people who are passionate about learning and sharing new technology and programming. There are around 60 people in the community sharing information and knowledge they learned. They host various events for topics like data science with guest speakers from different firms. They are currently looking for people in the leadership role. If you are a tech enthusiast and want to partake in this community, you are in a good time!
I asked Nick, a 4th year APM student from Vietnam, a student ambassador at Microsoft, what makes him interested in technology and programming and why did he decide to form a community.
He said not having the technical skills to actualize his ideas was the moment he knew he wants to try. He was a very active student from the 1st year and participated in various activities. When he was participating in business case competitions, he realized that he couldn't make his ideas come true, and finding those talents was quite difficult in the environment he was in.
Taking a Data Mining course from Professor Claster was the turning point for Nick. He realized that he is quite passionate about learning data science and would like to learn more about it. At first, he started the group focusing on data science only. They hosted weekly workshops and had a guest speaker from various workplaces like Rakuten. Soon he realized that one-way communication from the workshop was not the way, and decided to make the group more interactive with an even wider range of topics, which became the APU Tech club.
I asked this 4th-year student for advice to Kouhais. Please find the video below.
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