Hi, I’m Chad and this is my blog for CS-401.

I’ve never developed a mobile app before, and only recently had access to a smartphone to play around with, so that’s going to be something new for me. However, since we’re more-or-less converting web pages, that’s a bit more up my alley. I’ve played around with a lot of HTML and CSS for years, with little bits of JavaScript here and there. I’m hoping this course can help me learn some real JavaScript and get me involved with HTML5, which I’ve never really worked with before. Hopefully what I already know will be able to help a lot too.

The process of signing up and starting a blog is pretty easy. I was going to set up my own server with WordPress, but I didn’t get the chance to. I was then going to sign up for a WordPress free blog, but they don’t let you use domains with that, and I wanted to make use of this domain I bought a while ago, so I checked out Blogger. Blogger can use the Worcester State Google account I already have, so that worked pretty well for me.

The hard part of blogging is always coming up with content. I couldn’t even think of a title really, so I asked my friend for a suggestion and he gave me “Five mvs of Doom” which is a pun on a professional wrestling term and the mv command used to move files. I don’t know too much about wrestling but I thought it was pretty funny.

Hopefully I’ll be able to run an interesting blog.

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My name is Mike Aguirre, and I’ve started this blog mainly because it is a new interesting and involved requirement of my “capstone” computer science course at Worcester State –  CS 401 Software Development Process.  I’ve had various blogs in the past, always following the blogging revolution, my last blog ending with a stale Live Journal site that ended up tucked away in a dusty corner of the internet.  This time, I’m determined to start anew, beginning with this first post, and motivated by my participation in this new and interesting course I’m taking at WSU.

About me – I’m a part time student at Worcester State University, and have been working slowly to my degree while working full time as a network administrator for a technical consulting/training company in Westborough called The Training Associates.  One thing that I can really appreciate, is the necessity of a course like this at the end of my Computer Science career at the university.  “Software Development Process” sounds like it will finally tie in my education to my life experiences in the work place.  I know I will learn a lot in my involvement in this course and have the advantage to apply what I’m learning at my job which also involves development work on our Trainer Tracker software.

Tomorrow I’ll be heading to the Worcester Art Museum to meet my fellow classmates and my Professor to find out more about our semester long project.  From what I’ve heard, we’re going to help develop and release several educational mobile apps for a special exhibit that will be  displayed on four iPads which will be on the exhibit floor to enhance the experience of the museum patrons.  I’m looking forward to starting this semester, trying something new, and working together with my colleagues to make something that will actually be used by the general public.  More to come next week!

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Hello. My name is Sompop Suksawat. I am a 4th year Computer Science student at Worcester State University. I am creating this blog as part of the course CS401, Software Development Process. For this course, we will be making an iPad application for the Worcester Art Museum, and I will write on this blog once a week to keep all my peers updated on my progress.

The challenges for this course would be my lack of experience with app development, and also that I have never worked with HTML/CSS and javascript before. So I think that this will be a great learning process, and I hope that by the end of this course, I will have gained enough experience of working in teams on a real-world project and be ready for a real CS job after I graduate.

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My name is Kerry Sabanty and I’m starting this blog to track my progress in this semester’s CS 401 (Software Development) class. I’m a senior computer science major at Worcester State and will be graduating at the completion of this semester.

This course is described as the capstone course in the CS department, encompassing everything we have learned over the past few years. It should be a fun yet challenging semester that really allows us to put to use the skills we’ve gained at CS majors. I’m expecting to gain valuable real-world project experience with this course that will help me in the future.

A little more about myself: I’m a captain on the Worcester State Track and Field/Cross Country teams, which I dedicate a lot of my time to. After graduation I have accepted a job offer to work for Fidelity Investments as a Quality Assurance Engineer. I’m excited and relieved to have obtained this position, as many college grads in this market have trouble finding work.

I’ll be updating this blog once a week to inform readers about my progress in the course.

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My name is Brandon Chaban, and I am in the second semester of my Junior year at Worcester State University. I am majoring in Computer Science, but I also recently declared a minor of Psychology. I’m not 100% sure what I want to do after school, but I am hoping to find that out soon. This is the first blog that I have ever created, and I will be using it to update the progress of a project for my Software Development Process course (CS-401).

I’m not sure what to expect from this course, and this project. It will be different to finally be creating something that will actually be used by someone. Knowing this, I expect that I will feel some pressure, but I’m sure it will be fine. Like I said, I have no idea what to expect. I’ve also never worked on this type of a project collaboratively with such a large group before. I think that this experience will be interesting, and it will help me. It will be sort of like a stepping stone between school and actual real world experiences, and I feel that it will be an exciting course.

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My name is Andrew Thomas Murray, I am creating this blog to track my progress and learning in college class CS401 Software Development Process.

First some information on myself.  I am in my last year of Computer Science degree at Worcester State University.  While I have used computers all of my life I have had very little experience with any kind of coding before starting this degree.  So I am looking forward to learning more on software development and especially the class project getting good experience working on creating full usable software.

I am expecting a lot of work in this class, but also to learn a lot.  The tools we’ll be using like javascript and html I haven’t done any real projects with before.  So learning them on top of the course material will be a challenge.  I expect though to come away from this class with a lot of good information and skills.

I will be updating this blog once a week, though likely on different days depending on class workloads.  This is my first time using a blog but so far haven’t had any difficulties with it.  As I get more familiar with it might be able to add more to future posts.  That is all for this post, class starts this upcoming Monday so next post will have more about the class and project.

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Hey there. I’m Sean!

This blog post is my first post for the Computer Science department at Worcester State, as well as my first… ever. Exciting times!

In all honesty I am pretty excited for this class to start. It seems like we are finally able to use all the knowledge from previous classes and create a fully functional program, or app in this case. I think it will be a fun, but challenging course as we have to follow an outside guideline by a client, the Worcester Art Museum! I’m assuming this class will emulate a real world environment where we have to work in ‘large’ teams. Incorporating each others code to reach an end product. I’m hoping this class will give me a big chunk of knowledge, although I’m not sure of what that will be. I’m expecting I won’t know what it is until the end of the semester.

To me, starting a blog is the easy part. It will be following through with blog posts that makes it difficult. I’m sure it will be a great outlet to let off steam as well as share success. Hopefully building a community along the way.

Just for a little background, I’m a CS major and a music minor. I’m not to sure of what I want to do once I’m done here, but I’ve already been enjoying it. I would like to get an internship soon, as I think that would be a good stepping stone and hopefully bring me closer to something I want to do.

I enjoy tinkering around on computers, that is what lead me to this major. I’ve also been playing guitar for a long time. And I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Right now I’m working for the Town of Sterling, both for the department of public works and the water department.

I’m excited for the first class period to start!

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