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A Time Was Had

24 Dec 2025

Estimating or Best Guess? For effort estimates, I mostly relied on breaking an issue down into steps and using my own recent experience as a benchmark. It was mainly how similar tasks felt earlier in the semester and at a...

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Copilot, Not Autopilot

22 Dec 2025

I. Introduction The use of AI has become increasingly prevalent in higher education, particularly in fields like Computer Science, including software engineering, and others. In today’s world of learning, problem-solving, and productivity, tools such as coding assistants, automated debugging systems,...

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Reflecting on what I Learned About Software Engineering

17 Dec 2025

Introduction Over this semester, I realized this course was less about “learning React and Next.js” and more about learning how to think like a software engineer. The tools happened to be for web apps, but a lot of what we...

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Why don't U and I Frame these Works

08 Oct 2025

How does one do this? Moore was correct; this was indeed one of the most harrowing and tedious units. I was familiar with HTML but very new to Bootstrap 5 before this module. I know it’s redundant to say it...

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Coding Standards? I Think Mine Are Pretty High

24 Sep 2025

ESLint more like ESWimp To be honest, when I first heard the term “coding standards,” I assumed it mainly referred to small problems, such as whether to indent two spaces or four, or whether to use curly braces on the...

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Akamai Questions

10 Sep 2025

As we set out to be software engineers, asking questions is a big part of the work. Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen’s “How To Ask Questions The Smart Way” gives us a template for requesting help such as doing...

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TypeScript: Nah Imma Type Own Thing

03 Sep 2025

Getting into TypeScript With my experience in JavaScript, Java, and C, TypeScript was both familiar and distant at the same time. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still the JavaScript I’m used to, but TypeScript’s types do come in handy. When...

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