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From Software to Engineering

13 Dec 2023

What’s Software Engineering? Software Engineering is a broad term that encapsulates a lot. We can begin by taking the two words inversely: Engineering software - taking a practical, methodical, and systematic approach to building software. There is a Body of...

Reflection Software Engineering

Designing a Software Engineering Pattern

30 Nov 2023

Design Pattern Geometrically What do you think of when you hear th word “Geometry?” Shapes! Rectangles, circles, triangles, square, trapezium, convex polygon, parallelogram, irregular polygons, kite, quadrilaterals…The list goes on and on, and through the ingenuity of mathematicians, we have...

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AI: the Road Not Much Taken

21 Nov 2023

Introduction Personal Experience with AI Impact on Learning and Understanding Practical Applications Challenges and Opportunities Comparative Analysis Future Considerations Conclusion Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an inevitable part of computing for the general public with its availability. AI in...

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Frame of Reference: UI

05 Oct 2023

The Introduction: HTML and CSS The initial learning of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) through FreeCodeCamp felt similar to the one done for JavaScript: long, foundational, but necessary. In addition, the BrowserHistory WOD really encapsulates the...

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Standard on Coding Standards

21 Sep 2023

Coding without Standards: “wOuLd yoU RaThEr reaDThIs TeXt ; Or read this neatly formatted text?” Imagine you are reading an English paragraph, one that is without proper syntax, grammar, capitalization, or any sense of standards in the way it is...

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Smart Questions: A necessity for the Community

07 Sep 2023

The saying often goes: “There are no dumb questions.” However, in a technical setting, questions asked often result in different answers, and at times none at all. In Eric Steven Raymond’s “How To Ask Questions The Smart Way,” he introduces...

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Where Will Software Engineering Take Me

01 Sep 2023

What’s Software Engineering? Even at the time of writing, I still don’t have a clear understanding of software engineering, as I am not so much of a reader, but a doer, and doing is something I have not done yet....

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JavaScript: Beyond just "Java" + "Script"

31 Aug 2023

Java; // Without the Script It all began with AP Computer Science A in my Junior year of high school, a class I took from being intrigued by my older sister who took it. However, before beginning the course in...

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