14 Dec 2021

A Step Into the Real World

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...

Software Engineering
Learning
Reflecting
ICS 414

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15 Dec 2020

The Never-ending Class

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...

Software Engineering
Learning
Reflecting

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03 Dec 2020

Recognizing the Patterns

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,...

Software Engineering
Learning
Design Patterns
Frameworks

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08 Oct 2020

The Beauty of Frameworks

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...

Software Engineering
Learning
UI
Frameworks

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24 Sep 2020

No Double Standards, Only Coding Standards!

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....

Software Engineering
IDE
Coding Standards
Learning
intelliJ

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10 Sep 2020

Ask Smarter, Not Harder

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...

Software Engineering
Learning
Smart
Questions

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04 Sep 2020

Let's Build

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...

Software Engineering
Learning
Progression
Improvement

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03 Sep 2020

The Start of a New Arc

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...

Software Engineering
Learning

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