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The Pace of Technology
As a kid I remember how I needed to ask permission to use the landline phone to make calls to my friends before going over to their houses. It was an era before everyone had a direct line to all their contacts in their pockets, and when making a long distance call was a decision…
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5 Things I’ve Learned from My Senior Project
Introduction Coming to the end of the second quarter of my senior project, I decided to use this blog post to reflect on my experience, and what I have learned in the so far. Having been a college student since 2016, I’ve been looking forward to getting to this point in my studies for years.…
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Technologies
Favorite New Technology To give some background, our project, the EECS Community of Practice Mentor Matching site, background, is a web-based, UI application. To build this UI we are using the JavaScript library, React, as our technology of choice. In particular, we are using React with Typescript, which adds strong typing to React. React builds…
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Clean Code and Code Smells
What I Want to Do More In the chapter Bad Code Smells from the book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Martin Fowler recommends that if you feel the need to comment a block of code, you should just write a new method instead. Following this heuristic helps to make code cleaner as long…
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Picking a Hosting Platform
Regardless of the type of application, online applications need a few key pieces of infrastructure to be accessible securely and reliably online. This includes some sort of server to host the content of the site, networking infrastructure to route traffic to and from the server, and a firewall to protect against unauthorized or malicious traffic.…
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Challenges of a Continuing Project
Project Background The EECS Community of Practice Mentor Matching site is a site where students can go to find mentorship from others within the EECS program. This site is a web based application where the student provides their interests and some demographic information, and an algorithm uses that information to match them with people who…
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My Journey To 2023
My Journey In Education So Far This year marks the 6th year that I’ll be attending college / university. I took my first college course in 2016 at my local community college in Sacramento California. I had no idea what I wanted to do after high school aside from finding a field that was challenging…
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