Wow Was I not Ready for the Real World
08 Dec 2022
Reflections Some say that the prerequisite to success is pain, struggle, and turbulation. While I understood the sentiment at the time, it’s difficult to truly understand what this means until you finally put yourself out there and apply yourself to...
Real Group Projects
Software Engineering
Agile Project Management
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How Web App Development Helped Develop my Understanding of Software Engineering
07 May 2021
Reflections After a time management challenging and fairly rigorous semester, I reflect on what exactly it is I’ve learned. While a large portion of the course I took (ICS 314 - Software Engineering) revolved around web application development, I think...
Ethics in Software Engineering
Software Engineering
Agile Project Management
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Building a Good Foundation
28 Apr 2021
Design Patterns as Foundations People always ask me (they don’t) what in the world is a design pattern? In my own words, I would define it as the foundation of the solution to an issue. The foundation of a building...
Design Patterns
Software Engineering
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Is it Worth it?
22 Feb 2021
The Answer is Simple Yes. It’s worth it. What am I referring to you ask? Well if you had somehow missed the three associated labels with this essay, I’m referring to UI Frameworks! Take a look at the image above...
UI Frameworks
Software Engineering
Semantic UI
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Coding Standards Improve the Quality of Your Coding and Standards
07 Feb 2021
/** * How many violations of the AirBnb Javascript Style guide * can we pack into one file? * Created by Philip Johnson on 8/4/16. */ var foo = 3; const car = "Toyota"; const obj = { car: car,...
Coding Standards
Software Engineering
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Smart Questions for Dummies
24 Jan 2021
There IS Such a Thing as a Dumb Question. A phrase that’s been extremely popular and that’s been preached to me in almost every class from K-12 to even in my university has always sort of made sense to me...
Smart Questions
Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow
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Baby Steps
21 Jan 2021
A Generational Gap Software Engineering felt so sci-fi for my parents. Back in their days, the internet was a waste of money because of how slow it was. But nowadays the entire world, let alone just my parents practically live...
Software Engineering
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Aged Like Wine
19 Jan 2021
Javascript is a neat little language. It’s not quite as tight or secure with its typing of variables as Java is nor does it support multi-inheritance like Java does. But from the very little experience, I already have with Java,...
Javascript
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