Essays

Expending Effort For Efficiency

10 May 2024

For Efficiency’s Sake During my final project to build a club tracking website, I undertook the task to log my efforts via a tracker spreadsheet on Github. This was done to see how efficiently I was working and to see...

Effort Efficiency

A Journey's End

08 May 2024

Reflections on days past and new understandings I remember when I first started this class. My understanding of coding was still on a rather basic level as my skills were, up to this point, limited to making small, rudimentary programs...

Coding Software Engineer

AI: A crutch or a useful tool?

07 May 2024

I. Introduction As Artificial Intelligence (or AI for short) technology exploded in developement over the years, the wider world has had to grapple with the rapidly evolving capabilities of AI and the ensuing consequences arising from said capabilities. Colleges all...

Artificial Intelligence Developing Technology

For Every Design: A Pattern

25 Apr 2024

When you start seeing a pattern… Imagine you’re writing up some code for a program one fine day. You’ve finished a segment and are about to move on to the next when you notice your IDE showing signs of errors...

Design Patterns Coding Skills

Why having standards should be standard

08 Feb 2024

Standards? What standards? I must admit that I have never given much thought to coding standards when I first started programming, or at least formally implemented standards. Most of the time, what passed as “standards” for me was simply making...

Coding Standards Language Skills

Frameworks: the bones of any good-looking website

22 Feb 2024

Web building blues Out of all the coding skills that I have in my toolset, User Interface (UI) design is one of weakest skills I currently possess. My aptitude for designing interfaces has never been something that I worked on...

UI frameworks website building

Where it all began, and where it may go

26 Jan 2024

Where it all began I’ve been using computers for my entire life. My oldest computer was one of those old-timey Hewlett-Packard desktops with those old bulky CRT monitors, a clacky and clunky office keyboard, and a mouse with just the...

Software Engineering Interests

How to ask Questions, not questions(?)

25 Jan 2024

Questions? Questions! It’s happened to all of us at some point. You’re typing away at your keyboard, working on your latest and greatest project that will surely garner the attention of big names like Google, Facebook, and Mandiant or trying...

Questions Stack Overflow

Javascript: A dive into new realms and fun times

17 Jan 2024

From Pythons to Javascripting I remember the time when I first took up coding. It was an outside institution called DevLeague from the year 2016 that provided a lot of great experiences when it comes to dipping my toes in...

Software Engineering Learning