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Starting CS467: Choosing Projects
My name is Steven and this is my first blog post! This week I started CS467 which is the online capstone project course at Oregon State University. I am excited to begin my project. Yesterday, I selected my top five choices of projects I was interested in doing. The project at the top of my…
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Fixing stuff is fun?
I was able to debug and fix my problems with inserting new entries into my project’s database. Specifically, the new entries would be inserted with some incorrect and missing information. It definitely took longer than I wish it did, but overall I was glad to have found the issue. It turned out that I left…
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Using React is actually pretty neat
I was finally able to develop a React web page with a CREATE (part of the CRUD functionalities) functionality for my animal adoption application project. I feel that developing that web page was actually easier than I expected it to be. If I implemented the code for the page in plain JavaScript, I think coding…
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I am still learning the MERN stack.
Learning the MERN stack has been pretty difficult so far. I ended up following a long tutorial on implementing a sample MERN application but a lot of deprecated code was used in the tutorial. In the end, that led me to not being able to finish that sample application. Luckily, I was able to find…
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Learning the MERN Stack: REACT!
Over the past few days, I have continued my journey in learning the MERN stack. I have learned how to connect a server to a MongoDB database. I have also learned some of the basics of React.js to develop the front-end of an application. One aspect of React.js I learned about are React hooks. In…
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More Web Page Designs and Learning MERN Stack
Earlier this week, I design five more web pages for my team’s animal adoption application. I am pretty satisfied with the basic layout for the web pages. Albeit, they could look more aesthetic but I think that is something my team can take care of as we code the user interface for the web application.…
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I Learned To Use Figma
Earlier this week, I designed two mock-ups in Figma for two of the web pages for my team’s animal adoption application. Figma is a platform where you can make prototypes or wireframes of the user interface for software applications such as the one my team is doing. I had never used it before and given…
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The Project I Am Doing Is…
We were finally assigned projects based on our top choices and the project I am doing is the dating application for animal adoption. I am pretty excited to do this application because I love animals and I frequent animal adoption websites. I am not sure if my group will decide to make this into a…