Essays

The essentials of ICS 314: Software Engineering

13 Dec 2023

ICS 314 taught me many topics that I found useful and essential, however two specific modules within the curriculum became a highlight for my development in programming, “Functional Programming”, and “User Interface Frameworks”. These two topics were the topics that...

Software Engineering Javascript HTML/CSS Meteor

Reiterated Path

30 Nov 2023

Design Patterns, the importance and implementations Design patterns are a set of rules or guidelines that you loosely follow whether it be conciously or unconciously. In art this could manifest in the form of a uniform artstyle you produced, while...

Design Patterns Programming

A new AIdentity

21 Nov 2023

Introduction AI recently has been a prevalent topic for digital assistance in education, specifically the machine learning tools such as chatgt and github copilot. Usually in universities, we see the disapproving sentiments of professors when students use these tools, however...

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT

Final Project Idea

30 Oct 2023

Authors Josiah Kila, Kelly Sato, Lauren Clayton, Richard Baltazar Overview Problem: Students in college tend to desire to have some advice from their predecessors but usually there is no central forum to check for notes/studying resources pertaining to the class/subject...

Software Engineering Meteor

Final Project Idea-2

30 Oct 2023

Authors Josiah Kila, Kelly Sato, Lauren Clayton, Richard Baltazar Overview Problem: Students who want to travel/ or study abroad usually have no prior experieence that helps dictate which country satisfies their desires Solution: Our solution is the Peer To Peer...

Software Engineering Meteor

A Much Needed Rebootstrap

05 Oct 2023

Framework makes the Dreamworks…..website Going into HTML/ CSS, the thought of having to make different versions to different screen sizes for webpages being developed never came to me, and this ignorance brought out more appreciation for frameworks when I was...

Bootstrap HTML/CSS

The Refined Code

20 Sep 2023

Before the standard Before using coding standards, I had been formatting my code to personal preference, adjusting it visually to how I felt it would be easier to comprehend. One such unorthodox adjustment I enacted were the curly braces for...

Coding Standards ESlint Quality Assurance

An Overflow Of Inquiry

07 Sep 2023

How SMART Questions Are An Essential Tool For Software Engineeers Sometimes, a software developer would find themselves lost in a clueless situation where they don’t have any idea what to do next. In this occasion, what would be the best...

Stack-Overflow SMART questions

Programming My path

01 Sep 2023

Game Development My interests in software engineering stemmed from my usage of everyday technology and software. Technology is a part of many people’s daily lifestyle including myself. As I have gotten used to the impact that technology has on my...

Software Engineering VR/AR Mobile/Web Development

A Change In Variable

31 Aug 2023

Background When I first took computer science courses, I had no previous experience in computer programming, as I never had any previous encounters with any computer IDE’s, much less programming language. Going into my first computer science class ICS 111,...

Programming Javascript