Some feedback I’ve gotten since my last post was that I didn’t exactly give a glowing review of SE. Don’t get me wrong, I do ABSOLUTELY love what I’m studying. But I refuse to sugarcoat things and I want you guys to 100% know what you’re gonna expect before you get in, and that involves…Continue Reading I Am Not A Master Welder
Helloooo everyone! Hopefully some of you remember me from writing for The Inside Word last year, since I’m assuming most of you guys reading this are first years. Well, guess what? I’ve decided to continue my promising career as a blogger, because clearly that’s pretty much all I’m good at. We can call it… Part…Continue Reading Remember Me?
Kia ora! So I hope that you have all been enjoying the posts I have been making this year and that I was able to give you a slight “appetizer” of the software life. I hope that you also checked out the other blogger’s posts too because everyone has been contributing a lot of great…Continue Reading Time to Decide?
Kia ora everyone, Well, it sure has been an intense couple of weeks. I have had pretty much zero time to blog, as we have all been busy with our SOFTENG 206 design project and studying for tests. To be honest, it’s been a pretty good semester, with so many good memories made, but I…Continue Reading Survivors
Kia ora everyone! So, we’ve just passed halfway through the semester and although right now the workload is all good, we know that it’s about to get very bad. We have a test for SOFTENG 211 in week 9, with a large weighting, so that’s going to be intense. We are also busy with our…Continue Reading An Update on Semester Two
Yo! Semester Two! Let’s go! Kia ora everyone, We’re back! And we’re stronger than ever. Everyone pretty much knows everyone now, and we’re looking forward to what should be an even better semester than last semester. I hope that you all had a good break. We’re currently at the end of Week 5 in Semester…Continue Reading We’re Back Fam!
Well, here we are finally at the end of exams, and oh man, it sure has been a crazy semester. I feel like my heart has been racing non-stop since March, and now it actually feels really weird to no longer have any deadlines for a few weeks. I kid you not, every single day…Continue Reading Semester One of Software Engineering
I think the first question I need to answer is: why did I choose Software Engineering? Firstly, let me make something very clear. I had a very hard time trying to make up my mind when I was choosing my specialisation. In fact, I never intended to do Software Engineering, so the story about how…Continue Reading Why did I choose Software?
This is Zain here (also known by my friends as Big Z) and I’m going to take you with me on the thrilling and intense journey that is Software Engineering. So here’s a bit about me. I went to Avondale College, I love food, I love cars, I play the saxophone, and no, unlike some…Continue Reading Zain’s introduction
Find out why this musician-turned-engineer chose to embrace her creative side and go down the rabbit hole of Software Engineering. Establishing a Level of Complexity “…a technique for managing complexity of computer systems…by establishing a level of complexity on which a person interacts with the system, suppressing the more complex details…” Abstraction (Computer Science), Wikipedia,…Continue Reading Software Engineering – Aimee