All Kinds of Skills Wow. Just like that, I’ve finished my first undergraduate class in software engineering. These concepts that seemed so convoluted and complicated four months ago are actually forming a part of my toolkit, believe it or not....
An Age-Old Adage We’ve all heard the saying: “Don’t re-invent the wheel”. It’s pretty obvious that means don’t go and waste all your precious time trying to create something from scratch when the ideal basic element is right in front...
Underneath the Skin What does a half-done house look like? I’ve seen a few of them in the middle of construction, but I’ve always been intrigued by how they’re put together. It is incredibly interesting to see beneath the skin...
Squiggles, Light-bulbs and Red X’s…Oh My You know the feeling: you spend all day working on a bit of code, figuring out syntax and trying to get it to work, and then you’re finally rewarded with the proper output in...
Think Before You Ask Yes, we’ve all heard it: “No such thing as a stupid question.” I always feel tempted to ask something ridiculous whenever someone says that, just to see their reaction. I understand the spirit: be nice to...
My Interests As a computer science student for the past two years, I have been exposed to a lot of different aspects of coding and the world of developing software. Previously, I had thought that computer science meant either coding...
The Old World The first semester of my Junior year as a computer science student comes around and I think “Here we go, I have to take software engineering. Long hours of typing away in my development environment and trying...