An Experience that Keeps on Giving
14 May 2021
…And just like that, another semester as a computer science student is coming to an end. This semester was a wild journey from start to finish, in addition to there being a pandemic, of course. Though I am glad that...
Software Engineering
Programming
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Design patterns... something we've been doing all along?
29 Apr 2021
“[Design patterns] describe a problem that occurs over and over again in our environment,, and then describes the core solution to that problem, in such a way you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it...
Software Engineering
Design Patterns
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Easy, Fun, and Gets the Job Done
25 Feb 2021
What is a UI Framework? The fastest way to understand what a UI framework does is to look at a website that was most likely coded with raw HTML/CSS. For example: Props to you if that’s the look that you...
UI Frameworks
Semantic UI
HTML/CSS
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Coding Standards & Writing Better Code
11 Feb 2021
When one thinks of coding standards, the usual reaction is annoyance. However, for computer science students, coding standards should be viewed as a way to write better code. Coding standards not only improve the quality of your code for yourself,...
Javascript
Coding standards
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Smart Questions for Smart Answers
28 Jan 2021
Now a lot of educators would argue that there are no stupid questions, specifically so that students are not discouraged from asking questions about topics and things they don’t understand. While most can agree that there aren’t any stupid questions,...
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Software Engineering... What?
21 Jan 2021
Software engineering… what is that? With it being such a vague term, I didn’t know what to expect when coming into this class (and I still don’t)… My Initial Interests When I first entered college, I had no idea what...
Software Engineering
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Finally, scripting!
21 Jan 2021
Learning javascript has been a breath of fresh air. Maybe it’s the resources we were told to use (freecodecamp), maybe it’s the format of the class, maybe it’s because I have some experience in coding after having taken java and...
Javascript
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