Going to college is totally different, and I really appreciated the practical environment of it. It made me wish I went to Centennial College right out of high school. I ended up taking two courses, an advanced and introductory course with Mike Oullette, who was enthusiastic and passionate about programming. I learned how to do some really cool things with C# for document formatting and data analysis. It was really good to have somewhere to go and just practice, get feedback, and talk about the problems that I was having. When you’re new to programming, you get a lot of exceptions, you run into a lot of things that can just stop you in your tracks. At the end of the advanced course, we had a project to just make something with what we learned, and I was able to use that to make an add-on for Microsoft Office that allowed the company to create report formats dynamically, and that would save people a lot of time — Aisha Mahmoodallah, Part-time learning, Graduate, 2014