The City Built on Solid Foundation
15 Dec 2022
Building Cities ICS 314 Software Engineering I had us laying the foundational pieces in building an application, but ICS 414 Software Engineering II was the first real test to that foundation. How well can we implement what we learned? Will...
Software Engineering
Learning
Building Empires
12 May 2022
Building Rome To be perfectly honest, I had no idea what software engineering entailed. In my mind I hand-waved it and watered it down by categorizing it as just “creating software and apps” and never gave it another thought. I...
Semantic UI
Software Engineering
Cookie Cutter
28 Apr 2022
I want to make a cookie Imagine making a chocolate chip cookie from scratch. Without looking at a recipe, you could probably guess what kind of ingredients you’d need based on what you already know about a cookie. For example,...
Semantic UI, Design
Pockets of Creativity
24 Feb 2022
What is your passion in life? Before we transitioned our online class to in-person, our professor used to give us surveys to fill out at the beginning of our class for attendance. I remember one of the survey’s asking a...
Semantic UI
The Anxious Future
17 Feb 2022
“What do you want to do with your life?” I don’t know. “Does it make money?” I think it will. “How are you going to get there?” I don’t know. “What do you mean you don’t know? You should already...
RadGrad
Familiarity in Formatting
10 Feb 2022
We’re not learning Python anymore My first experience with coding ever was coding turtles to draw pretty geometric shapes with python from a base level IT class. It was super simple to follow along with, and pretty straightforward after you...
Software Engineering
Learning
Meet Them Halfway
27 Jan 2022
I want it, and I want it now Good, honest, and expressive communication, is by far, such a widely useful skill to master and continuously develop. You need communication in everything: the relationships that you build with your family, your...
Software Engineering
Learning
Finding your fit!
20 Jan 2022
She tasted the large bowl and said, “This porridge is too salty!” She tasted the medium bowl and said, “This porridge is too sweet!” She tasted the small bowl and said, “This is porridge is just right.” - Goldilocks and...
Software Engineering
Talk the talk with Javascript
18 Jan 2022
Not my First Choice Computer Science wasn’t my first choice. I graduated from my high school as my class’s leading valedictorian and had gotten in to West Point, a distinguished military academy with a super selective acceptance rate…many could say...
Software Engineering
Learning