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Almost Finished
This is the very last term I will be working on this project so it’s super cool to be wrapping things up. It’s crazy to think that in the beginning this project was just an idea on paper and now as we are very close to the end, it is almost a finished full working…
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Most Difficult Challenge
By far the most challenging thing I’ve had to do in this project is deal with learning the in’s and out’s of React. When I was first learning it in the beginning I thought it wasn’t too bad and is fairly simple, but when I started to do some more advanced things that quickly changed.…
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New Technologies
My favorite technology that I’ve been working with and learning on this project is React! As I’ve been getting more familiar with it throughout the term I have come to realize how powerful it can be. Being able to break up sections of the UI into components with state variables has made a huge difference…
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Clean Code
I ended up reading through 2 articles concerning “clean code” practices and both of them have given me some insight one what I should try to do more often, and what I should avoid doing in the future. First off, from the article A Few Principles of Clean Code, it brings up the idea of…
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Blog Post #3
We are currently just two days away from showing off our v0.0.2 so everything is starting to come together. I been working on creating a decent looking simulation navbar that will eventually be able to play/pause, speed up, slow down, and a few other features. Along with that we’ve set up some basic animations for…
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Blog Post #2
So far our project is going great, we have finished up our project requirements/goals along with our preliminary design. We have decided to use Electron for our web-framework and python for our backend. Right now we are working on getting some basic pages made with simple buttons to make sure everything is connected properly. We…
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Introduction
My name is Josh and I live in West Linn, OR and I’m currently pursuing an Ecampus computer science degree! I enjoy hiking, running, playing games with friends, and I have an amazing dog named Dozer that accompanies me throughout all of it. I’ve always been interested in computers my whole life but it really…