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Taking The Next Step

14 Dec 2022

This semester I was able to take ICS 314 which is a class on software engineering. Throughout these few months, I was able to learn about a variety of topics. We covered concepts such as open source software development, configuration...

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Falling Into A Pattern

01 Dec 2022

Design Me a Pattern Design patterns are used throughout software engineering. They are general reusable solutions that arise from common recurring problems. In other words, they are templates that can be used in many different situations. Each design pattern has...

Software Engineering Design Patterns

Let’s Frame This Img

06 Oct 2022

What Is A UI Framework? A UI framework is basically a set of classes you can use in your html to create an aesthetic website. These classes have styling associated with them already so you do not have to do...

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Is it Up to Code?

22 Sep 2022

Are My Standards Too Low? Throughout my whole programming career, I have never heard of coding standards. I did not know that they existed or the importance of them. Although, I do understand the importance of certain standards such as...

Coding Standards ESLint

Does My Question Have an IQ?

08 Sep 2022

Dumb vs Smart Growing up I always heard the phrase: “there is no such thing as a dumb question”. However, we are still always scared to ask questions in fear that it will not be taken seriously. It is true...

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Software Engineering for the Soul

01 Sep 2022

What To Do In Life? Throughout my childhood, everyone would always ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up. How was I supposed to know? For the longest time I wanted to be a veterinarian. However, I...

Software Engineering Learning

Give me a Java(Script)chip Frappuccino!

31 Aug 2022

The History of Me So far I have had experience mostly with C and C++ with a little Python. This semester in my ICS 314 class I will learn JavaScript and I am a little nervous. During the summer I...

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