Daunted from the Get-Go When I registered for Software Engineering II, I expected it to be, more-or-less, similar to its predecessor, Software Engineering I––ie., In groups, create a web application and continuously develop it throughout the rest semester. What I...

Over the course of these past five months, I was able to learn a lot about software engineering as I gained new skills and improved on old ones. While my knowledge only scratches the surface of what software engineering has...

Design Patterns: An Instructional You might have heard a phrase, “cooking by the book.” Well, design patterns are “coding by the book.” Design patterns provide software engineers a general template, or blueprint, that can help them find a solution to...

Ethics: An Overview Ethics, specifically Western ethics, dates all the way back to ancient Greece at around 500 BC. Major ancient Greek philosophers, such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, began the study of human nature during the reign of science...

A Last Minute Decision I initially enrolled in the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a Biology major with a goal to get into medical school. I had been dead-set on going into the medical field since I started high...