Daunting HACC-Hui
13 Dec 2020
What is HACC-Hui? HACC-Hui is an easy-to-use system that provides simpler team formation processes for participants of the Hawaii Annual Code Challenge. In the past, the team formation process at HACC has been ad-hoc and informal, which leads to high...
Software Engineering II
Meteor application
Slackbot
Team project
ICS 414
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Software Engineering Fundamentals
13 May 2020
Learning basic software engineering For this 314 class, I was more or less expecting to learn about the basics of software engineering since we would be doing web application development throughout the course. I was pleased to figure out that...
Software Engineering
User Interface Frameworks
Agile Project Management
ICS 314
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Wonders of Design Patterns
30 Apr 2020
The wonders of design patterns In life, there are many difficult and confusing tasks we might have to overcome to move forward and succeed. Many things exist to help us in the process of conquering obstacles. One example of those...
Software Engineering
Design Patterns
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Importance of Ethics
23 Apr 2020
What are “ethics” in software engineering? To me, I think “ethics” in the context of software engineering means to respect and follow a certain set of “hidden” rules and guidelines whenever you are involved with coding. Ethics must exist when...
Software Engineering
Ethics
Facebook
ICS 314
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Covid Horror
04 Apr 2020
Changes to my lifestyle Before the enforced lock-down has happened in Hawaii in light of COVID-19 concerns, I never expected that COVID will be such an issue to the lifestyle of my family, my friends, and myself. To be quite...
COVID-19
Learning
Lifestyle
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Difficult but easier?
27 Feb 2020
What are these frameworks? UI frameworks are useful when you want to write compact code that is easier to write and read. The one drawback to using a UI framework is that you have to learn how to use it...
Software Engineering
UI Frameworks
Semantic UI
ICS 314
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Solid coding foundations
14 Feb 2020
Coding standards Learning a programming language takes a lot of dedication and effort. If you don’t learn a programming language without a solid coding standard, I believe that you will have a really hard time grasping everything you need to...
Software Engineering
Coding standards
ICS 314
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Can questions be smart?
30 Jan 2020
Smart Questions When I initially heard about learning how to ask “smart” questions, I thought that it was referring to the saying that there are no dumb questions. What I realized is that in the open-source community though, there are...
Software Engineering
Smart Questions
ICS 314
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The Software Engineering Life
23 Jan 2020
Looking Back One of the biggest reasons why I decided to go to major in Computer Science is because I love to play video games. The core of creating a video game, whether it be super advanced or simple, lies...
Software Engineering
Goals
ICS 314
Javascript
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The Almighty Javascript
23 Jan 2020
First Week Before I came into this 314 class, I did not know javascript; I only knew C/C++ and Java. Hearing the word Javascript made me think that it must be similar to java because it has java in it!...
Software Engineering
Learning
ICS 314
Javascript
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