{"id":10,"date":"2024-11-13T03:32:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T03:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/soulobrettcs\/?p=10"},"modified":"2024-11-13T03:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T03:32:52","slug":"week-7-461-373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/soulobrettcs\/2024\/11\/13\/week-7-461-373\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7 &#8211; 461 &amp; 373"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8088\/files\/2024\/11\/oldman.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" style=\"width:611px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8088\/files\/2024\/11\/oldman.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8088\/files\/2024\/11\/oldman-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-moss-green-background-color has-background\">Above image represents how I feel almost 4 years into my CS degree, after a grueling fall term so far (mainly due to Defense Against the Dark Arts). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Senior Software Engineering (CS-461)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-moss-green-background-color has-background\">The first term of my Senior Software Engineering Project class (461) has been a good experience overall, and much less intense than I had expected it to be. Some things that I think have contributed most to this are as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">An awesome and approachable hands-on professor. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">A well designed and thought out course.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">Building a CyberSecurity related project that I am somewhat passionate about.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">A solid and diverse project group that each brings a unique set of skills to the table. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">Likely the fact that it is not an industry partnered project, so probably not as intense as those can be. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">The first term in this course sequence being more about planning and design than actual building.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-moss-green-background-color has-background\">These factors, along with others, have provided a good experience with 461, and looking back on hearing some horror stories about the difficulty of the sequence from some past students, I wish I wouldn&#8217;t have spent so much time in fear and worry about this course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8088\/files\/2024\/11\/cybersecurity_stockPhoto.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13\" style=\"width:611px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8088\/files\/2024\/11\/cybersecurity_stockPhoto.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8088\/files\/2024\/11\/cybersecurity_stockPhoto-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Defense Against the Dark Arts (CS-373)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-moon-dust-blue-background-color has-background\">As you can maybe guess by now, this hasn&#8217;t exactly been the case for CS373. I will attempt to focus on the positive here for this course, as there is plenty of that. The course it not what I expected after taking my previous and first cybersecurity course last term in CS370. We are covering many different areas that may or may not have to do with security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-moon-dust-blue-background-color has-background\">One takeaway so far has been that this class could likely be classified as a low-level systems class. The reason I say this is because the majority of our weekly labs and homework have been working in a virtual environment, whether that we a Kali Linux of some Windows OS variation, and we are dealing with a heavy amount of both assembly and operating systems stuff. Some major benefits here have been getting better with systems overall, not being so dependent on my local machine and it&#8217;s tools, and getting a TON of terminal experience. I view these all as important skills to improve on, and am doing my best to focus on the positives here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-moon-dust-blue-background-color has-background\">For our final few weeks in 373, we have some higher-level concepts to focus on, such as network and firewall areas. The exception to this being in week 7 we will be using actual hardware that we ordered for a lab, so that should get interesting. Hopefully in a few weeks I can say I made it through the other side of this challenging course as a more experienced cybersecurity focused CS major with another couple notches on my belt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above image represents how I feel almost 4 years into my CS degree, after a grueling fall term so far (mainly due to Defense Against the Dark Arts). 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