12 May 2022

Software Engineering is Hard

The Fundamentals Throughout this semester I was able to build my repertoire in software engineering. Although this course focused primarily on web application development, it taught me many fundamental software developing concepts and values. Some of the concepts that stuck...

Learning
Reflection
Design Patterns
Ethics
Agile Project Management

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28 Apr 2022

Ka ʻŌnohi O Nā Code

The Gem of the Code Much like in the beginning of my hula career, my beginnings in web / app development were very vague. I only ever saw the finished product of a person’s blood, sweat, and tears through a...

Learning
Reflection
Design

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24 Feb 2022

UʻI i ka lei

Pretty is the lei Any day that there is a lei, is a special day. A graduation, a birthday, a paʻina, or any occasion really, even for a Bat Mitzvah from your neighbor two blocks down and one block up...

Learning
Reflection
HTML
CSS

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10 Feb 2022

No One Likes Lint

“OCD” Let’s face it no one enjoys having lint in our laundry. THANK GOD for lint catchers! This same sentiment is paralleled with my opinions on ESLint and coding standards. I have always been a little “OCD” as many might...

Learning
Reflection
JavaScript
ESLint

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26 Jan 2022

There Are Such Things As Stupid Questions

At one point or another we have all heard or have been told the phrase: “there is no such thing as a stupid question”. Well… “There is no such thing as a stupid question” ? false : false. Eric Raymond’s...

Learning
Stack Overflow

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20 Jan 2022

The (Software Engineering) Odyssey

Baby Steps The novice stages of my software engineering experiences began in my 6th grade year of middle school, sitting in an introductory extracurricular coding class learning JavaScript. My teacher had us conceptually create if-else programs with a Frankenstein maze...

Software Engineering
Reflection

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18 Jan 2022

Java...Script?!

New Avenues Prior to taking ICS 212 I had learned JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Java in middle school and my first semesters in University. Admittedly, I did not truly take my JavaScript knowledge into practice in my middle school and...

Software Engineering
Learning
Reflection
JavaScript

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