19 Dec 2025
Wrapping Up My Time in ICS 314 As I’m finishing up ICS 314, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much this software engineering class has actually taught me. Going into it, I expected mostly coding, but I ended up...
Software Engineering Reflection Configuration Management Agile Project Management
14 Dec 2025
Estimates? Really Off While working on this final project, I’ve come to a startling realization. Estimating the amount of time that is required to complete something is not something that I am partically good at. It might half be because...
Effort Estimation Reflection
04 Dec 2025
Design Patterns as Etiquette In everyday life, we follow many unwritten rules—saying “thank you,” waiting our turn, softening requests, not because someone forces us to, but because these shared patterns make interactions smoother. I think that Design patterns in software...
Design Patterns Reflection
08 Oct 2025
Learning Frameworks Learning a to build a UI framework felt like learning a new language. I spent hours remembering new class names, layer behavior, and adjusting margins so that it looks perfect for what I envisioned. While HTML defined the...
UI Frameworks Bootstrap Reflection
24 Sep 2025
“Real” Coding When most people hear about coding standards, they often imagine rigid accurate comments and strict uses of classes and functions. However, while these are true to an extent, I have learned and begun to see it as a...
Coding Standards Reflection
11 Sep 2025
Smart Questions and Smart Engineers When thinking of software engineering, the ability to code and problem solve is paramount to the success of a career. However, how do newcomers develop that skill? The ability to ask a well formed question...
Smart Questions StackOverflow
03 Sep 2025
Learning Typescript So far, this was my first ever experience with typescript and it has been pretty okay. I am used to learning languages like Python and JavaScript, and I always felt that learning a new language was like reviewing....
Typescript Reflection