Clean Design becomes Stress-free Applications Before learning about softeare engineering processes, I had tried to write a web application. Unfortunately, the application failed before it got out of the gate. To sum up the problems, my codebase was filled with...

Structured Design There are many ways to go about writing code. The best way is to just start writing. Of course, after reading this you might think “well why didn’t I try that!?” The answer to that question being, “just...

Most large companies have their own UI framework. Bootstrap, React, Flutter… it seems that every fortune 500 tech company finds it necessary to reinvent the wheel. Is javascript too open ended? Is html not enough? If you asked the people...

While a programming language is not the same thing as a natural language, there are many parallels that can be drawn between the two. Both are used to communicate a message, both have easy and hard ways to describe one...

For me, technology is both my greatest ally and my worst enemy. Distractions are all around me in many different forms. There has been more than one day where I saw no sun at all. However, those days were not...

Asking Smart Questions Learning a programming language is not easy. Not everything is well documented. Sometimes the language authors will include funky designs that reference old paradigms that no 20-something should ever be expected to know. Enter, Stack Overflow. Even...

Preconceptions Coming into this course I actually dreaded having to work with Javascript. Browsing programming related forums led me to believe that the language was supposed to be the bottom of the barrel, and insufferable. Not only that, but I...