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Today I got an interview at a small startup in Los Angeles. The startup works with motor controllers, and only has 11 employees (including the 2 founders). I got the interview because I knew somebody who worked there. This was my first technical interview, and it didn’t go very smoothly. Because it happened today and…

Working on this project has taught me a lot about the development process. Previously, I had mostly done solo projects. Even when I did group projects in the past I ended up doing such a significant amount of the work that it didn’t feel like a group project. This project’s work is much more evenly…

Now that we’re really making progress on our project, we’ve started adding quite a few technologies and protocols to our tech stack. I thought I’d discuss the positives and negatives of various technologies I’ve interacted with on this project. For background, I’ve so far worked almost entirely on the backend, and thus haven’t really worked…

Reading This week I read the first chapter of Clean Code by Robert C. Martin as well as the third chapter of Refactoring by Martin Fowler. I think these were optional, but I decided to take a bit more of a deep dive into these programming theories. Clean Code: Chapter 1 The first chapter of…

Teamwork I think the biggest thing I learned this week was about team communication. We were discussing how best to implement our database schema, and I believed it should be implemented in a particular way while another teammate thought it should be implemented in a completely different way. We had to have a voice call…

Backend Data SQL SQL databases, also called relational databases, are generally faster and more efficient than the alternatives. Relational databases work by having tables filled with items with unique keys, and references between those unique keys in other items. For example, if we had products that we made in a set number of colors, our…

The Project I have been assigned my project for the next three quarters, and it is a text based adventure engine. This project will require developing software that can make text adventures, and software that can play these games. The idea behind it is to create a platform for educators to easily create and distribute…

Introduction Hey! This is a blog about my experience with my Senior Software Engineering Project. This first post is really meant to serve as an introduction to me, and show some potential projects I’m interested in. So without further ado… who am I? My name is Cameron and I currently live in Mission Viejo, CA…