16 Dec 2021

Software Engineering is about the Journey, not the Destination

not done Ready, Set, Go Now that you are almost done with this class, I would like you to write on last essay that summarizes what you’ve learned about software engineering. Because the technology stack for this class is designed...

Software Engineering
Final Project
Technology Stack

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02 Dec 2021

It's In The Name, Design Patterns

General Problems Require General Solutions What are design patterns? It’s in the name really, but to be more precise, design patterns are general solutions to general problems that have been developed for and by software developers through trial and error....

Software Engineering
Design Patterns
Final Project
Meteor

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02 Nov 2021

Ideas Will Come Into Fruition

HACC Team Jacob Hardy, Kelly Hwang, Kiana Walters, Kylie Higashionna, Taryn Takebayashi Overview For HACC 2021, we decided to ​choose the challenge proposed by NIC Hawaii, the Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) Sighting & Reporting App. Currently HMAR handles all...

Software Engineering
Meteor
HACC

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07 Oct 2021

Margin-ally, no, Massively Better

Why use Semantic UI? You could easily find out by asking last week’s me versus today me. The stark difference in frustration, after the initial hurdle of learning Semantic UI, really showed that using a UI framework lends itself to...

Software Engineering
IntelliJ
UI Design
Frameworks
Semantic UI

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30 Sep 2021

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

Why use RadGrad? At first I did not know either and thought this exercise to be merely a clever ploy to increase the number of students on the platform but after going through the tutorial and seeing the wealth of...

Software Engineering
RadGrad

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23 Sep 2021

Consistency is Key

It comes to no surprise to anyone who has spent any significant time with me that I like margins, consistent justification, and contact names exclusively in lowercase letters. So, when it was not only required for this class to configure...

Software Engineering
IntelliJ
ESLint
Coding Standards

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09 Sep 2021

Play Silly Games, Win Silly Prizes

A PG-version of the common phrase succinctly describes the value in asking smart questions as a smart software engineer. When one asks a silly question on forums such as Stack Overflow, the questioner should not be surprised if at best...

Software Engineering
Stack Overflow
Open Source Software

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