Both of the articles will serve as good examples for me because the paper that we have to write is going to be a "how I learned" format just like the articles. The two articles were similar in that they were clearly and concisely written and they fully explained the steps that were taken to reach the goal. They are also different in the fact that the programming article spanned many years and was an important life skill (for Feross) while the Google free article was an experiment that was conducted by Joshua over the course of a couple months. Throughout his article Feross kept stressing how important it was to do side projects to learn programming and that you should enjoy it. One of the topics I have in mind from my paper required a lot of practice when I learned it too and I began to enjoy it. Joshua had a plan that he followed as he was trying to live his life "Google free" and as he executed that plan he ran into a few obstacles which he solved. My paper will include my plan to learn the new skill and the obstacles that I had to overcome.
Both of the articles are good examples in different ways. I will most likely use different components from each of the articles when I write my paper.
I agree that ehe two educational narratives were good examples for our first assignment. We were able to extract methods of how they conveyed their story with information and events. I wish you luck in writing your paper!
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