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1.     Your name

Robert Sanders

2.     Your preferred learning style.

I prefer to learn something by actually doing it or by being shown how to do it. So I have a more hands on learning style.

3.     Life motto or quote you find inspiring.

”Let me not mourn for the men who died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such hero’s lived”~ General George Patton

4.     Mission in life and strategies to achieve.

Find a job in which challenges me to find new and creative ideas to solve problems and settle down in a comfortable setting. The first part of accomplishing this task was selecting my major. I saw computer science as a way to be creative in coming up with ideas. Then I needed to find a place to learn such a subject, so I chose ASU because of how more well known it was and I’ve heard that its CSE program is one of the best in the U.S. This made it ideal for me to go there.

5.     Passions or areas of interest.

Some of the things I love to do include: Hanging out with friends, listening to music, playing video games, surfing the internet, Running: I used to be on the track team in high school and Hanging out with my family: who are all spread out over the U.S. so I rarely get to see them.

6.     What ASU resources you think you will need to help you reach your goal.

Aid from the instructors in finding out which classes they think I should take to maximize the knowledge I gain at ASU

7.     Major and why you selected to study this major.

Computer Science, I chose this because I have always been fascinated with how computer work, both the hardware and software. I’m also looking towards the future, and I see that the future will be in high demand for people with knowledge in computers and how to use them.

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Take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator evaluation and give the summative results here.

For the following letters add up how many:

E: ______1

I: ______ 0

S: ______ 3

N: ______ 4

T: ______ 6

F: ______ 1

J: ______ 5

P: ______ 2

Now, indicate which letter you had the most of:

E or I: ______ E

S or N: ______ N

T or F: ______ T

J or P: ______ J

ENTJ – Leader

Frank, decisive, assumes leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well-informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas.

A service-oriented architecture is an information technology approach or strategy in which applications make use of (perhaps more accurately, rely on) services available in a network such as the World Wide Web. Implementing a service-oriented architecture can involve developing applications that use services, making applications available as services so that other applications can use those services, or both.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a hot topic in enterprise computing because many IT professionals see the potential of an SOA in dramatically speeding up the application development process. They also see it as a way to build applications and systems that are more adaptable, and in doing so, they see IT becoming more agile in responding to changing business needs. Not only is SOA a hot topic, but it’s clearly the wave of the future. Despite this strong trend, some in the IT community don’t feel that the web services underpinning for an SOA is mature enough for their enterprise to consider migration to a service-oriented architecture. For others, the terms service-oriented architecture and web services draw a blank stare.

One thing that makes SOA a very distinct and powerful process is the ability to reuse of business services. Developers within an enterprise and across enterprises can take the code developed for existing business applications, expose it as web services, and then reuse it to meet new business requirements. Reusing functionality that already exists outside or inside an enterprise instead of developing code that reproduces those functions can result in a huge savings in application development cost and time. The benefit of reuse grows dramatically as more and more business services get built, and incorporated into different applications.

The reuse of services gives SOA the advantage of also being incredibly coast effective. Other approaches that integrate disparate business resources such as legacy systems, business partner applications, and department-specific solutions are expensive because they tend to tie these components together in a customized way. Customized solutions are costly to build because they require extensive analysis, development time, and effort. They’re also costly to maintain and extend because they’re typically tightly-coupled, so that changes in one component of the integrated solution require changes in other components. By simply stringing premade services you can there for make it much easier to create software and decrease the time to do so.

SOA and web services are not just abstract concepts, they’re real approaches to solving today’s IT problems. It’s a way of sharing functions (typically business functions) in a widespread and flexible way. The befits they provide can revolutionize the software development industry by allowing us to make better software at a lower price.