Beckett's Capstone Blog

For this blog post, I want to write about one of the most helpful and practical things that have guided my journey at OSU: efficient time management. Prior to coming to OSU, I struggled to come up with a regular schedule for balancing school, work, and other priorities. Through efficient time management and careful course…

Working with the google cloud platform in a team has been one of the more challenging parts of the project for me through the capstone project. From my other coursework, I already had some experience working with web development which aided in the development portion. I also had some experience working with the google cloud…

For our mentor matching project, I am quite happy with the technologies that we have chosen to use for development. On the frontend, we are using React, and on the backend we are using Express. These are very popular frameworks and widely used in industry. One technology I would change if I was starting over…

Writing clean code is one of the most important things to strive for when programming so that others are able to understand your work more easily and future changes can be made without having to relearn what code is doing. I found this graph here taken from GeeksForGeeks to be especially helpful for illustrating the…

For this blog post, I want to write about some of the most valuable resources for me in my job hunt which was helpful in receiving a job offer for when I graduate in June. Over the last summer, I was able to take a technical interview preparation course through the non-profit CodePath. throughout the…

These past few weeks have been very exciting for me and my computer science career. Over the last few months, I have been doing job preparation and applying and interviewing with many companies. I was fortunate enough to be able to receive a job offer at Capital One to be a software engineer after I…

Hello! My name is Beckett Lewis and I’m entering my senior year at Oregon State majoring in Computer Science. I’m in from the Portland OR area. I actually started as a chemical engineering major but after taking an introduction to computer programming course I ultimately decided that CS was the major for me and made…

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