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Graduation
I am closer to graduation than ever before. With my Capstone almost being completed, spring and summer term are my last two academic terms at Oregon State University. This school has given me a lot in the last three and a half years. I have met amazing instructors, professors, staff, and classmates. I also made […]
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Remote Communication
One challenge I faced while working on our project is communication. I believe communication is the key to success when it comes to team projects. Since all team members live in different physical locations and have different time zones, it was quite difficult to communicate with each other. Furthermore, it has affected our ability to […]
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ChatGPT
My favorite and least favorite technology at the moment is ChatGPT developed by OpenAI. First, I want to talk about why I do not like ChatGPT. Using ChatGPT can step over the boundary of plagiarism more often than you realize. Some programmers will rely on ChatGPT to write their entire code, which is not beneficial […]
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Code Smells (Comments)
Code smells are codes that need to be reorganized and makes your current implementation hard to read or use, which often leads to software decay over time. Something I have always struggled with are code smells with comments. The comments I have for my code are sometimes too abstract and vague, but sometimes do not […]
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Capstone Project Part 1 Completed
Now that our team has completed the final draft of the design document and client verification, our project is ready for development. Which means that the first out of three senior software engineering project courses is coming to an end. So far, I think the structure of this course is very well developed. I think […]
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Design Phase Completed
The Capstone project that I am working on is an opinionated project management system website. My team has successfully drafted a design document and is ready for the implementation phase. We struggled on a missing team member problem, but that has been overcome. Now that we have a design for the front-end, back-end, and database […]
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Initiation
My name is Xiaoyan Yang and I am a fourth year undergraduate student at Oregon State University I currently live off campus within Corvallis and the time zone is PST I have three cats and a dog. I play tennis and love video games I have always loved computer since I was young and something […]