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  • Coming Together

    My first step of working through a “new” and perhaps unexpected problem for me is to usually identify what I want the outcome to be. I’ve had several problems where I am getting the right outcome, but perhaps my test cases were not correct.  So after correctly identifying what I want to happen and reviewing…

  • Almost Halfway There….

    Capstone has been a great experience so far learning to work with our project sponsor and working with two other “career-changers”.  Thus far we have been working through different software architectural patterns, and navigating the different requirements from our project sponsor.   I think our biggest challenge to this point has been trying to settle in…

  • Kicking Off The Capstone

    This week we created our project plan and kicked off our Cloud Optimization of Algorithmic Trading Strategies project.  We are working with a project mentor on his side project outside of his day-job to optimize different trading strategies for certain stocks. Our frontend will take a users input stock and will cycle through different optimization…

  • Hello, Capstone World

    Hi Readers, I am Russell Feathers.  I’m a software developer in the CORE Studio group at Thornton Tomasetti, as well as a computer science student at Oregon State University.  This semester I’m finishing up my time here with this Capstone class and Cloud Applications. Before starting on my CS journey I worked as a structural…

  • Hello world!

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