Essays

Is it Up to Standard?

26 Sep 2024

Standards As the world of coding languages quickly improves over time, our ability to write clean, well maintained, and high quality code becomes increasingly important. Writing code is no longer about being able to understand the code that you wrote...

Coding Standard ESLint

The Delicate Art of Software Engineering

19 Dec 2024

Reflecting on Software Engineering Concepts Beyond Web Application Development In this class, I learned about more than just web application development. I also gained a deeper understanding of fundamental software engineering concepts that can be applied across various fields, not...

Software Engineering IDPM ESLint Coding Standards

Artificial 'Intelligence' (See what I did there)

17 Dec 2024

AI in the Classroom The use of artificial intelligence in the classroom has increased throughout the years. It can be used as a tool that can write simple code, or explain complex code. In ICS 314, these AI tools were...

AI AI use in Classrooms

Design Patterns

05 Dec 2024

WHAT’S THAT? When I was first asked, “What is a design pattern?” I was unable to answer. I have been coding for over three years at this point, but I have never in my life heard about a ‘design pattern.”...

Design Patterns Application

UI FRAMEWORK MY WORST NIGHTMARE

10 Oct 2024

Background The time for only using HTML and CSS for our websites is over! Over the years, we have seeen a massive change in websites. They used to be “boring” stand alone pages that didn’t really have much user interaction....

Bootstrap HTML CSS

StackOverflow 101

12 Sep 2024

Stack overflow is a platform where developers can ask questions related to programming. I often found myself having at least one tab of stack overflow open when doing my homework, if I did not understand what was going on in...

StackOverflow Questions Answers

The Road

05 Sep 2024

Beginning of the Journey Growing up, I have always had an interest in video games. I saw life as one big video game that we were all playing in. To me, the world was one big locked map that was...

About Me Learning

ICS 314 and What to Expect from TS

05 Sep 2024

First Exposure I first heard of Typescript being mentioned in a video about web development. At the time I had just started learning about and working with Java so the language looked familiar but different. Readability When I first took...

Typescript Athletic Software Engineering