How To Get An IT Job In Canada: College Stories 2/6

Allen Goo
4 min readJun 18, 2020
T building at Algonquin College — our second home

Congrats, you’ve made the first semester.
Here we are, the semester 2!

Semester 1 → Semester 2 → Semester 3 → Co-op 1 → Co-op 2 → Semester 4

How did you find your first semester? Hope you enjoyed and started feeling of becoming a Developer. If you haven’t read the previous story, you can check it here, College Stories 1/6.

You probably notice that there are more interesting programming courses this semester and they get difficult. It’s not only you who feel that way. So, don’t worry!

I want to talk about particularly three courses for this semester.

  • Object-Oriented Programming (Java) + lab
    This will be your second Java course and the gap of difficulty is huge compared to the previous one. You will not only learn object-oriented concept, how to properly debug your code with JUnit, how to build a desktop application with JavaFX, etc but also complete labs every week and assignments requiring a ton of time to get full marks based on their rubrics. In fact, many students fail this course unfortunately and if you fail the course, you must take this course again to…

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