I’m a Computer Science student, not a . . . I have only known what design patterns are in a computer science context for approximately 24 hours. Before then, I never would have even thought that the phrase had a...
Start at the Beginning Software engineering has always felt intimidating to me. It seemed like something only otherworldly intelligent and creative people, people who have been so passionate about the subject that it is something that they have worked on...
Time to Move On The little time I have had with a UI framework I have appreciated. It has opened my eyes up to the possibilities of HTML and CSS and inspired a new interest in web development to the...
Life Without Code Quality Control It was my third hour staring at the screen without having made any changes. I had combed through each line of code multiple times – hadn’t I? – and yet I still had not found...
Stupid Questions Are Stupid It is likely that many people have heard the phrase, “There are no stupid questions,” at least once in their lives. Armed with this knowledge, some of these individuals may strut into Q&A forums like Stack...
A Lonely Year Online Led Me to Software Engineering
21 Jan 2020
Then . . . Locked in my room, trapped at my desk, thousands of miles away from my friends and classmates, I stared at my laptop unseeingly. I knew the clock was ticking down and each second passing was a...
Over My Head? I know very little about computer science. My first day of ICS 314, my nerves were through the roof. I had been told the class was hard, although not why, and that many people had to retake...