Checking My Mirrors As my time in ICS 314: Introduction to Software Engineering is coming to a close, I feel as if I’m sitting in the driver’s seat, all of my accumulated knowledge revving me up to go. However, to...

More Than a Million Moves There are an average of 10120 possible games of chess, according to Hercules Chess. This is greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe. This was calculated as on average, in any given...

Cogs and Frogs Coding standards are rules and practices that make the most readable and most efficient code. It helps protect against minor errors and just gives your code a clean feel. Needless to say, when working in a group,...

The Right Questions Asking questions is important. When we’re learning something new, having questions about the material is a good sign that you’re paying attention and thinking critically about the subject. I used to be afraid of asking questions. I...

Flash Back Growing up, my family had one of those bulky off-white computers that were a solid cubic foot and had extremely loud keyboards. Whenever my dad wasn’t using it for work, I would scramble up onto the seat and...

The Good Old Days In high school, I took an Intro to Computer Science class, where JavaScript was our main focus. That was my first dedicated computer science class, so I was worried that I would struggle to keep up....