Daniel Trupp | Professional Portfolio

17 Dec 2020

A Broad Perspective A concept like software engineering is extremely complex and time consuming to realize, thus why universities have it as an upper-division course. The wide range of topics in such courses are designed to give students an experience...

Software Engineering

03 Dec 2020

The Bread and Butter of Computer Science The thing that makes computer science unique, and arguably its best feature is code reusability. The ability to come up with a general solution to a problem and specifically apply it allows for...

Design Patterns

08 Oct 2020

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder Many people disagree on what something beautiful, but most people can agree what makes a user interface look decent and function well. Creating said interfaces, however, can be time consuming and can...

UI Framework

SemanticUI

24 Sep 2020

Coding Standards are Useful If you have a development environment that can automatically check them for you. If you aren’t using an IDE that checks spelling and standards (maybe you’re one of those people who likes vim), coding standards can...

Coding Standards

IntelliJ

10 Sep 2020

A key part of programming is troubleshooting. Whether it be a minor bug or strange behavior, you’re likely to have questions if you spend time programming. Some problems will be solved by rereading your code aloud to a rubber duck...

Questions

StackOverflow

04 Sep 2020

I was introduced to programming in high school, and have enjoyed it ever since. My first exposure to programming was in the C language, where I learned the satisfaction of getting code right, and the frustration of bug fixing. Frustrating...

Software Engineering

03 Sep 2020

So far it’s been a week into the course ICS 314, and the first week tasked us with the daunting task of jumping right into a new programming language: Javascript. An Initial Impression Prior to this class, all I’d heard...

JavaScript

Learning