Briefly, design patterns in software engineering can be described as general solutions to frequent, recurring problems. Since I have a lot of experience with C or C++, design patterns reminds me of function declarations. The idea is that the programmer...

We’ve all heard the phrase “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Yet, this is exactly what we do with each website that we visit, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. We like the images, the flashy backgrounds, and...

ESLint has been extremely useful so far. It has helped me understand the language better, and identify ways to write my code more efficiently. Since it shows errors for redundancy and whether a variable should be declared with let or...

No matter what field you are in, there is no way for someone to know absolutely everything about anything. Programmers and software engineers are no exception to this. Sometimes, we get stumped on an error, and we stare at the...

During this past week of ICS 314, we learned the basics of JavaScript: variable declarations, function declarations, and many other various things. Coming into this class with experience in C and C++, most of the syntax and keywords are familiar,...

One of the hardest questions for me to answer is, “what made you choose to go to school for Computer Engineering?” I can only say that I walked into the advisor’s office before my first semester at the University of...