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A Bittersweet Ending

09 May 2024

All Good Things Must Come To An End ICS 314 has taught me so much in such a short amount of time, it’s actually crazy. If you told high school me that he would be learning about software engineering and...

Software Engineering Coding Standards Open Source Software

AyAyAy, AI!

07 May 2024

I. Introduction Artificial Intelligence, or better known as AI, has become an overnight phenomenon to the 21st century world, especially in education. AI plays a very significant role in higher education as a tool that aids students in doing work...

Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering

Cousins, Tantrums, and... Cocomelon???

25 Apr 2024

Cousins, Tantrums, and…. Cocomelon??? Imagine you had a little cousin that was the most insufferable brat on the planet that would have constant tantrums. They did not get the toy they wanted, a tantrum occurs; they do not like the...

Design Patterns Software Development

Boots Made For Coding

22 Feb 2024

These Boots Were Made For Coding Using UI Frameworks may as well be as hard as learning a totally new language, but using pure HTML and CSS is like running to school…but you own a car. Why make life harder...

Bootstrap 5 UI Frameworks

Pilled Code & ESLint Roller

08 Feb 2024

Ketchup Is To Mustard As IntelliJ Is To What? ESLint as a coding standard is like any other coding standard for me. My first impressions with ESLint were not too bad. It seemed very simple and with IntelliJ checking the...

Coding Standards ESLint IntelliJ

Answer Me This!

25 Jan 2024

Are There Smart Questions, or Just Foolish People? Whether you’re in a room filled with 300+ students or in office hours with your professor, asking any question can be a daunting task. Asking questions may seem intuitively easy; however, it...

Smart Questions Reliable Answers StackOverflow

Is Free Lunch Even Worth It?

18 Jan 2024

Who Said Anything About Software Engineering? The funny thing is, I did not switch majors to computer science ever planning or dreaming to be a software engineer. Alas, ICS314 is a required class to graduate. My interests lie more in...

Software Engineering Interests

Javascript or Javachip?

17 Jan 2024

So Is It Javascript or Javachip? Javascript is a very powerful language that utilizes very familiar concepts from languages that I already know. Javascript is very reminiscent of Java but with less specificity in the code. Getting started with Javascript...

Reflection Javascript