So here I am, in the final leg of this CS degree. It feels a bit surreal, given how much grinding has been involved over the last few years, but it’s also very exciting. What started off as a small idea during my time in previous careers\/entrepreneurial endeavors, has finally come to a point where it will become a reality. All those moments of thinking if I only had the knowledge or ability to program so I could solve this really annoying business problem, or develop a tool that would save my business some man hours or expenses have led me to a point where I can solve these problems now. It’s all very encouraging and in hindsight, the decision to pursue a formal degree, is one I’m very pleased with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During this period of learning, I also came to discover that I’m not much of a front end guy. Not that I don’t like a responsive UI for a better UX, but I enjoy much more being a back-end type developer. It’s something that is more interesting to me overall. This bleeds into my decisions for project choices, and for this Capstone project in particular. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My team and I will be going with making a crowd sourced travel planner. The idea of having anything crowd sourced means that I’ll get to play with data, lots of it. There will be plenty of back-end work to be had with this type of project. It’s also one project where I’m looking forward to learning cross-platform technologies, aiming to get the project to work on different platforms, be it mobile or web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though CS344 Smallsh project is the one project I’m most proud of during this degree program, I aim to make this capstone project one that I will be equally proud of. It has a lot of potential to be an app that requires me to get as “full stack” as possible. And I look forward to the challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until next time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrew Vo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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So here I am, in the final leg of this CS degree. It feels a bit surreal, given how much grinding has been involved over the last few years, but it’s also very exciting. What started off as a small idea during my time in previous careers\/entrepreneurial endeavors, has finally come to a point where … <\/p>\n