Essays

A Year In Review

13 Dec 2022

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work When first beginning this course I had no idea what to expect, and after hearing about the WODs and seeing the amount of work that had to be done I was worried about taking this...

Design Patterns Agile Project Management ESLint Coding Standards

The Keys to Success

30 Nov 2022

The Keys to Software Design Have you ever had to go through someone else’s code and spend hours trying to understand it? This is where design patterns come in handy as they allow for software developers to work collaboratively by...

Software Design Design Patterns Web Development

A Week in the Life of a Web Developer

02 Oct 2022

Web Development Through HTML and CSS Have you ever browsed through the web and seen a well created web page and wondered how it was created? The answer to that question is using UI Frameworks. Having spent the past week...

Bootstrap 5 HTML CSS

The Ingenuity Behind Autocorrect

21 Sep 2022

Standards of Coding Have you ever gone through a program where it is extremely difficult to read? There is no spaces between words and operators, the indentation is non-existent, the code has many unnecessary and unused variables? The simple fix...

ESLint Intellij IDEA JavaScript

Why Won't I Get a Text Back?

08 Sep 2022

What is a “Smart” question? What exactly is a “smart” question you may ask? Well there is no exact answer to this question, but a “smart” question can be thought of as a question that is concise and specific. In...

StackOverflow Smart Questions

My Future in Software Engineering

31 Aug 2022

Interests in Software Engineering As a student studying computer engineering I have always preferred the software engineering aspect more than the hardware engineering side. Some of my interests in software engineering include game development, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things....

JavaScript Game Development Cybersecurity IoT

A New Experience

30 Aug 2022

Background with JavaScript Coming into this class I had very little experience with JavaScript, however, it did not feel as if I was starting from scratch like when I learned my first coding language. Throughout the first few years of...

JavaScript Athletic Software Engineering