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Software Engineering Is More Than Just Writing Code

13 Dec 2022

Software Engineering Is More Than Just Writing Code It’s like an Onion Many people want to become programmers because of the comfortable and lucrative life it offers. Work hours are normal and consistent. Your work environment is a desk with...

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The Goods and Bads of Design Patterns

01 Dec 2022

Wikipedia - the Most Used Design Pattern Wikipedia (I know, I know…Wikipedia is not a reliable source) says “a software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. It...

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Final Project Idea

01 Nov 2022

By Galen Chang Food Truck Review Overview Problem: Food truck prices are often more expensive for less food compared to other dining options near UH. With the limited time students have to grab food between classes and their limited budget,...

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The Art of Creating Webpages and UI

06 Oct 2022

Left vs Right Brain I’m sure you have heard of the “left brain - right brain” idea. If you haven’t, let me explain. There is a popular theory that people who are left brain dominant are logical people, excelling at...

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The Code Is More What You'd Call 'Guidelines'

22 Sep 2022

As Captain Hector Barbossa said in the 2003 smash hit “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”…“Coding standards are more what you’d call ‘guidelines’”. Ok, he might have not said exactly that, but the point still stands....

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Filling In the Gaps with Software Engineering

15 Sep 2022

Doctor Wannabe to Pen Tester Extraordinaire…maybe Way back in 2010 after I graduated high school, I had hopes and dreams of becoming a doctor. Nothing ever goes according to plan though, and 3 years into my Biology degree, I volunteered...

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Writing Smart Questions

08 Sep 2022

I’m sure that you’ve experienced running into a problem that you can’t seem to wrap your head around no matter how much effort you put into trying to understand it. You might spend a day reading a textbook, another 10...

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From Struggling to Underline in Word to Coding in Javascript

31 Aug 2022

From nothing to…something? Just over one year ago, if you told me to read a simple “Hello World!” script and tell you how it worked…I could tell you was that there were what appeared to be words on the screen....

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