One Last Project (Or Three) Nearing the end of my time in college, I felt like ending with a project or three. During this last semester I did a project for ICS 414, and the project was called Room Directory....
What Exactly Does It Mean to Practice Software Engineering? Discussing the process of learning a set of skills with most people will often boil down to whether or not you can do it or not, especially if the person has...
What Is the Difference Between Design and Design Patterns? When someone first hears the phrase “design patterns”, their attention would naturally be attracted to the word “design”. Thus, from someone who has only heard the name and nothing else, like...
How Hard is Building a Webpage? In my experience, when people talk about programming, they often confuse HTML and CSS as programming languages. To be fair, I also thought so until high school, but the general consensus is that it...
What Are Coding Standards? When most people talk about coding, they mostly focus on the function of the code. What some people seem to ignore is what the code looks like. Like essays, code had its own set of standards...
Why Do Smart Question Matter? Sometimes people have issues solving problems and need a helping hand. This isn’t something to be ashamed of, since most people need help from time to time and there are many people who are willing...
What Do I Want to Do? Sometimes when you learn something new, you find that you can’t think about anything else. New shows, new games, new hobbies, you just find yourself think about it constantly. Eventually you might stop actively...
Another One For the Record When I first decided I wanted to learn how to code, I never imagined that there were so many different coding languages. I always assumed that coding would be straightforward to learn, maybe with a...