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Through It All

11 Dec 2023

Another semester, another high-stress preparation period for finals week — scratch that, another high-stress 16 weeks. As I seek to wrap up my undergraduate studies and graduate next Spring semester, before moving on to full-time graduate school for University of...

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Efficient is Sufficient

14 Dec 2022

As I write this, Fall 2022 is nearing its end, and finals week is in high gear. Thankfully, my ICS 314 course has no final “exam”, allowing me to redirect my stress to other finals (cough cough PHYS 272 and...

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This Just In: Design Patterns

30 Nov 2022

Developers encounter problems of some sort on a daily basis, especially with programming. Something fails to compile, a program does not run as it is intended, an error somewhere crashes a program. The recurrence of these issues eventually leads to...

Software Engineering Design Patterns

What's On Your 'Face?

06 Oct 2022

HTML and CSS are the languages of the Web. HTML lays the basic foundation of a page and CSS heavily supports the page with its styling capabilities. Going hand-in-hand, these two languages create almost the entirety of the web, but...

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A Method to the Madness

22 Sep 2022

Picture this: you are a software engineer working on a team project. One team member, no matter how hard they try, just cannot get their code to work. No amount of brainstorming, debugging, or StackOverflow surfing on their end is...

Programming Coding Standards

Is There Such Thing As A Dumb Question?

08 Sep 2022

According to Carl Sagan, “there is no such thing as a dumb question”. As he says, all questions are asked to gain an understanding of some topic. While it might be true that no question is inherently dumb, how it...

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For the Future

31 Aug 2022

Computers are the future. Nowadays, computers and internet services are prevalent in daily life, from navigation to entertainment to research. Approximately five billion people around the world use the internet, and as accessibility to the internet increases, that number will...

Software Engineering Learning

console.log("Hello JavaScript!");

31 Aug 2022

JavaScript currently stands as one of the most popular programming languages, serving as one of the main languages of the World Wide Web. According to W3Techs, 98% of all websites use JavaScript for client-side programming, making it an imperative language...

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