14 May 2020
A Look Back It’s the end of the term and I think that it’s an appropriate time to look back at what I learned over the course of this class. I feel that I’ve not only learned how to “program”,...
30 Apr 2020
Level Up Suppose you’re playing a complicated action, roleplaying, strategy, adventure, nonsensical game that requires you to complete the puzzle or finish the level. You’re aware that there’s a way to beat the level, otherwise, you’re playing a trash game....
02 Apr 2020
Commitment First off, I believe that in regards to software engineering, “ethics” is defined as a set of guidelines and expectations that are universally accepted as the norm for a software engineer. Loosely speaking, it is what programmers and engineers...
02 Apr 2020
Daily Routine With a natural disaster on such a global scale, there are bound to be massive changes to everyone’s lifestyle. For me personally, I’ve seen pretty small changes to my daily routine. The major change is having to learn...
31 Mar 2020
This was collaboratively written by Sang Nguyen and Sola Takahashi. Overview By now, students should be familiar with the Laulima site and its many tools. However, if it isn’t already clear, Laulima is not friendly towards new users. Navigation around...
27 Feb 2020
Introduction to Semantic UI When I was told that we were going to start using Semantic UI in our HTML and CSS, my mind initially drew a couple of blanks. Before this, I’ve never heard of a UI framework before...
13 Feb 2020
Transitioning After the big move from JSFiddle to IntelliJ, I felt like I was doing something completely new despite using the same language. Of course, it wasn’t the first time I used an IDE nor coding in Javascript. It was...
30 Jan 2020
How to avoid looking stupid To form an answer, we have to know what it is that we are trying to answer. In other words, what is the question? We’re taught in school that “there are no stupid questions” but...
23 Jan 2020
First Steps We all must begin to crawl before we can learn to walk. This analogy can hold true for any skill besides just walking, especially for something as complex as software engineering. We can’t jump into instantly learning an...
23 Jan 2020
Past Experiences After going through the basic Javascript course, I can say that it is much simpler than that of the previous languages that I have learned. While very similar to Java, it feels more toned down and easier to...