14 Dec 2021
Its for the Client This semester I decided to take ICS 414 - Software Engineering II. There were no exams, no lectures, no assignments, and no quizzes. One may even question if anything was learned in this class. As it...
15 Dec 2020
Experiences Gained and Lessons Learned What is software engineering? What do software engineers even do? These are questions I asked myself before starting my software engineering class. Before starting this semester, I was completely clueless on what I would learn...
03 Dec 2020
What is the Pattern? “Wait, you can have designs in patterns? Or patterns in design? I’m confused”. These are the first thoughts that I had when I found out that we will be covering design patterns. To be completely honest,...
08 Oct 2020
The World of Design I have always wondered how websites are created. Does someone just draw them out in a program? How do the functions and links work on a web page? How are they added to browsers so that...
24 Sep 2020
A Trick to Neat Code? Unfortunately, no there is not trick to neat code. But there are ways to make it easier. When I first started coding in ICS 111, one of the first things I learned was coding standards....
10 Sep 2020
How Do I Ask? As a software engineering student, it is important to ask questions frequently. Whether the reason you’re asking the question is to better understand a concept or finding an error in your code that you can’t seem...
04 Sep 2020
Time for Change Up until the past two years, I never considered myself to be a computer person. When I first decided to go to college I majored in liberal arts, and I dreaded the fact that we would have...
03 Sep 2020
Nervous but Excited Am I good enough? This a question that I found asking myself every start of a semester. The syllabi, assignments, exams, and a fear of the unknown all contribute to a sense of self-doubt and overthinking that...