The job market out there is tough. You heard getting into software engineering is lucrative, so with your non-computer science degree, you decide to start applying to jobs. You soon notice that places will pass you up for jobs or even interviews because you do not have a computer science degree. And that is where…

As you have been coding in your classes as well as when you get your first software engineering job, you will realize there will be multiple people contributing their code to a central code base. To link people to their code as well as link them to a time frame of when they committed their…

Now that you are a Post-baccalaureate student, you will now be juggling multiple responsibilities. From work, to school, to even taking care of kids. I urge you to do one very important thing. TAKE BREAKS! Going to school for Computer Science is already hard enough. Having to juggle this with other major life responsibilities will be…

Finding a job is very hard. But you probably already knew that. Before joining Oregon State University (OSU), I was looking very hard for a job. I decided to take the self taught route for computer science, but that proved to be fruitless because the interviews I was getting told me that I did not…

Now that you have secured a job offer for work as a software developer, what should you expect? I’ll let you know. From company to company, the logistics of what a developer does and how a developer interacts with his or her team members varies. However, there are some things that remain the same and…

There are a lot of front end frameworks out there, but one that I appreciate the most is React. This is a front end framework that was developed by Facebook. Why I really like this framework is because it is not as rigid as say Angular which requires you to use things like a separate…

Now that you are coming close to finishing the Oregon State University Computer Science program, you will be looking for a job. Many employers like to ask candidates Leetcode type questions, so you will have to start practicing Leetcode questions. There are a lot of resources out there to help you, but what has helped…

In software engineering there is a discipline called Usability. This is basically a measure of how well a specific user in a specific context can use a product/design to achieve a defined goal effectively, efficiently and satisfactorily. If software engineers or usability engineers understand the importance of creating products that work well for their users,…

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