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In Spring 2019, I took CSE 154 taught by Lauren Bricker and Melissa Hovik at the University of Washington. This course focused on developing web pages with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL. We created web services and APIs (Application programming interfaces) in PHP and populated data in our web pages by fetching it through JavaScript from our APIs. My main takeaway from this course was the development of APIs and how they can integrate into bigger applications.
I took CSE 143 taught by Hunter Schafer at the University of Washington for my Winter 2019 quarter. Following CSE 142, 143 was definitely a more difficult class, but it was also a much more satisfying and fulfilling course. In CSE 142, it was more focused on the basics (and while the fundamentals are still important for success), CSE 143 used these basics and combined them with more advanced topics to create programs that were interesting and fun to do.
Nearing the end of my Autumn 2018 quarter, I reworked the Stellar Event Rental's website. Primarily, it was a redesign of the frontend and did not include much back-end work. There were many different goals I had in mind for the site, but the priority was making it responsive. Previously, the site was outdated and did not offer a mobile-friendly layout and design. By using a responsive design, it allows the site to be easy to use on any screen size.
During my winter break, my friends and I wanted to do a Secret Santa. Secret Santa is where a group exchanges Christmas presents anonymously. Each participant is assigned another to provide a gift for. Instead of turning to a premade solution, I decided to create a program that would allow me to organize a Secret Santa. Using what I had learned in an introductory programming course, I was able to write a simple Java program that would help me accomplish this task.
In my Autumn 2018 quarter, I took CSE 142 taught by Brett Wortzman at the University of Washington. Although I had self-taught some programming basics using online tutorials, they were mostly in Python and not in Java (the language used in this class). CSE 142 was my first real experience with not only programming in Java, but also taking a structured programming class. Overall, my experience in CSE 142 was great and very enlightening.