Working in teams is hard. Working in teams on the same item at asynchronous times is even harder. Working in teams on the same item at asynchronous times on a problem that no team member has worked on before is the hardest. That is the conclusion for me of this past week 🙂 . In…

My project team is making considerable progress on our replica version of Atari Breakout. We have all of the major features of the game built and implementable (i.e., paddles, balls, bricks, levels, menus, scoring, etc.), but just when things are going well, we encounter the dreaded “bugs.” This is the first time that I have…

For those of you who have been following this blog since day one (an amazing three weeks now), you’ll know that one of my main concerns was simply just remembering all of the concepts/approaches/mechanism that I have learned throughout this CS journey at OSU. I am pleased to say that, so far so good! My…

The capstone project represents the culmination of nearly four years of CS study. In this time, I’ve progressed professionally at my non-CS job (including some value-add CS work), had two children, and continued to remodel our family’s home solo. This has been a long, arduous journey with challenges across all aspects of my career, studies,…