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Keeping it 100 With Software Engineering

10 May 2025

Reflecting On Everything Before taking this software engineering course, I had a vague idea that it would mostly be about coding websites. While I did get better at building web apps using tools like Next.js and React Bootstrap, I quickly...

Software Engineering

Keeping it 100 With My Use Of AI In ICS 314

09 May 2025

I. Introduction Artificial Intelligence has already become a staple in many developers’ toolkits when it comes to software engineering. Just as engineers use pencils, or artists use paintbrushes, AI is just another tool in the bag for developers and programmers...

AI

IDPM Effort Estimation and Tracking

08 May 2025

1. How did you make your effort estimates? To make our effort estimates, I looked back at previous WODs that we did throughout the semester. These involved similar tasks like creating or refactoring websites using HTML, Bootstrap, React, and Next.js,...

GitHub

Keeping it 100 With Design Patterns

25 Apr 2025

Design Patterns: The Secret Recipes of Software Imagine walking into a kitchen where every chef invented new recipes on the fly. Sure, you might occasionally discover a culinary masterpiece, but most of the time, you’d end up with spaghetti ice...

Software Design

Keeping it 100 With UI Frameworks

24 Feb 2025

UI Frameworks: A Curse, A Blessing, & Everything In Between If you’ve ever tried to build a website from scratch, you know the feeling. You start with some innocent HTML, maybe sprinkle in a little CSS, and before you know...

HTML CSS Bootstrap 5

Keeping it 100 With ESLint

13 Feb 2025

Coding Standards Be Like When people hear “coding standards,” they usually think of nitpicky debates over tabs versus spaces or whether curly braces deserve their own line. But coding standards are much more than just style preferences, they can actually...

ESLint VSCode

Good Answers Come From Good Questions

30 Jan 2025

In software engineering, the art of posing questions effectively is paramount. Eric Raymond’s essay, “How To Ask Questions The Smart Way,” highlights the significance of well-crafted questions in eliciting valuable answers. A comparative analysis of questions on platforms like Stack...

Questions Answers StackOverflow

Keeping It 100 With TypeScript

27 Jan 2025

TypeScript? I’ve heard of JavaScript. Is it like JavaScript’s younger brother? No. But that is what I thought it was at first. My initial thought as a complete newbie was that TypeScript was a coding language very similar to JS,...

TypeScript WOD ICS