Category Archives: Week-15

Apprenticeship Pattern – Sweep the Floor

This pattern really focused on the idea of your value as the new guy in a fresh team environment. Each party has no idea about the other’s techniques, patterns, thought processes, or communication abilities. While you’ll naturally get acclimated to the team through experience, it’s always a good technique to pick up some of the menail, but important work. It should show the team that you’re willing to pitch in, and if you take your time to make that menial work look stellar, then that’s an even better indicator of your talent and value to the team. It warns of becoming the team’s “gopher,” which I would say is a valid caveat; I guess I would prefer to think that most people are more professional than that.

For the majority of the pattern, I wholeheartedly agreed with this advice. It should garner comradery with your peers, and an improved understanding of the project – I would apply this to any sort of team effort in general, because if the members operate in good faith then it should promote the team to be a more effective unit (theoretically).  The only thing that I have a bit of a disagreement with is the assertion that you might be relegated to that menial work by default, after trying to sweep the floor for too long. I’d say as long as you engage with teammates about where they are on the project, ask questions, and actually learn from those conversations, you should be at least relatively qualified to work on more challenging tasks. On top of your understanding of the different project parts, I’m confident your peers will recognize your engagement and welcome you to cooperate with different or more challenging content.   

Finally, I can understand the sentiment that one won’t appreciate the bigger picture of the project, or would get uncomfortable attempting new types of work outside of their comfort zone. These are very different problems, and require a good amount of introspection to address in my opinion. I’m going to look at the referenced patterns near the bottom to see if he elaborates further.

I think the most important lesson I got from this pattern is not to make yourself useful initially, but make everything that you tinker with is as close to your best work as you can get it. Who knows who’ll be impressed?

From the blog CS@worcester – Dummies that Code by howbrash and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Week 15 II: What Are REST APIs? HTTP API vs REST API

https://blog.devgenius.io/what-are-rest-apis-http-api-vs-rest-api-92c2fe2bb136

For this last blog post, I decided to pick this post on the same blog as the last one, blog.devgenius.io. Admittedly I am picking too many REST API blog posts but I thought this one was a good pick because I’ve never dove deep into why we use REST APIs and what they are as well as some other types of APIs. In this blog post titled “What are REST APIs? HTTP API vs REST API” by The Educative Team (which I assume is a team of authors) they go over HTTP APIs, REST APIs, when to use REST APIs, and what to learn next.

First, they go over what an HTTP API is. It’s an API that uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol as the communication protocol between the two systems. HTTP APIs expose endpoints as API gateways for HTTP requests to have access to a server.
They also go over common alternatives to the popular REST API: GraphQL API, Falcor API, and gRPC APIs. GraphQL APIs are the second most popular form of API and seeks to correct common problems with the REST API structure. It’s open-source and designed to hold data in a tree structure. Falcor API uses much of the REST API architecture with paths and references but automates much of the request structure. Lastly, gRPC APIs are a newer API based off RPC APIs. Almost all of the processing of gRPC APIs are done by the server in RPC architectures.

Next, they go over REST APIs. REST API stands for Representational State Transfer and is an architectural pattern for creating web services. REST APIs see widespread use by application developers due to how simply it communicates with other machines over complex operations. REST is a ruleset that defines best practices for sharing data between clients and the server. It then goes into architectural requirements to be considered a REST API: Client-server, Stateless, Cacheable, Uniform Interface, and Layered System.

Lastly, it goes into when to use REST APIs, when not to, and what to learn next. For when to use REST APIs, REST APIs are great for building general-purpose applications to be scalable in the future. As for when not to, REST is a helpful tool in your toolbelt and a good general rule to follow but it shouldn’t be your programming dogma. For what to learn next, you should learn other API types so you can recognize when a situation calls for a non-REST solution.

I thought this was a good blog post to dip my toes more into REST APIs and just APIs in general. When I was working on my homework, I didn’t really give much thought into the work but when looking into the concepts of the homework more, it’s actually interesting to learn about. I also chose this blog post because it went over other API types that I should learn about if I go into front end development and I thought that was a good takeaway from this post.

From the blog CS@Worcester – Brendan Lai by Brendan Lai and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

week-15

Hello, blog (mood-status: relax), writing this blog after coming home from work, finishing the exams, and submitting assignments. But anyway, on writing about this week-15. I am writing this as my “final” blog for the year 2021 for real. I decided to go on the Syllabus once again to look at the course topics. Then I choose the subject of the Patterns & anti-patterns.

 

Patterns

Patterns are part of everyday language, but it’s essential to discuss algorithms to understand their importance in software engineering. An algorithm performs a daily task like sorting a list of items, storing data for efficient retrieval, or counting occurrences of an object within a data set.

 Algorithms are among the most used fundamental concepts in software engineering. It mainly highlights proofs of its solutions and its only code samples in obscure, ancient languages such as Algol or MIX Assembly. Despite much covered: singly- and double-linked lists, trees, garbage collection, etc. The details are hiding in problematic libraries, but the concepts are the same. These algorithms have remained reasonable solutions to common software engineering problems for more than five decades and are still going strong.

A “pattern” can be a general structure of an algorithm. In algorithm focus on a specific programming task, a pattern challenges beyond that domain and areas such as reducing defect rates, increasing code maintainability or allowing large teams to work more effectively together. Some standard practices include:

  • Factories
  • Pub/Sub
  • Public-key Cryptography
  • Agile

 

These are four common patterns in the industry; it ranges from highly technical to broader, more process-oriented points. Factories are very code-oriented, while pub/sub is more architectural. While public-key cryptography has general importance, libraries to support its operations are available for almost every programming language in everyday use, making it generally short of implementation.

At the other end of the expanse, “Agile” remains unavailable: a point and a tool among developers, project managers, and other stakeholders about precisely what it means and how it should be implemented. From Narrow or broad, technical or process-oriented, excellent working knowledge of these patterns is an essential component in a technologist’s toolbox.

 

What is an Anti-Pattern?

A “pattern” is a known-to-work solution to a common software engineering problem (anti-pattern). Anti-patterns do not incorporate the idea of failure to do the right thing, including options that seem right at face value but direct to trouble in the long run.

Note the reference to “a common response.” Anti-patterns are not a few mistakes; they are familiar and always followed with good choices. As with regular patterns, anti-patterns can be broad or very specific, and there may be hundreds to consider in the realms of programming languages and frameworks.

From the blog Andrew Lam’s little blog by Andrew Lam and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

week-15

Hello, blog (mood-status: relax), writing this blog after coming home from work, finishing the exams, and submitting assignments. But anyway, on writing about this week-15. I am writing this as my “final” blog for the year 2021 for real. I decided to go on the Syllabus once again to look at the course topics. Then I choose the subject of the Patterns & anti-patterns.

 

Patterns

Patterns are part of everyday language, but it’s essential to discuss algorithms to understand their importance in software engineering. An algorithm performs a daily task like sorting a list of items, storing data for efficient retrieval, or counting occurrences of an object within a data set.

 Algorithms are among the most used fundamental concepts in software engineering. It mainly highlights proofs of its solutions and its only code samples in obscure, ancient languages such as Algol or MIX Assembly. Despite much covered: singly- and double-linked lists, trees, garbage collection, etc. The details are hiding in problematic libraries, but the concepts are the same. These algorithms have remained reasonable solutions to common software engineering problems for more than five decades and are still going strong.

A “pattern” can be a general structure of an algorithm. In algorithm focus on a specific programming task, a pattern challenges beyond that domain and areas such as reducing defect rates, increasing code maintainability or allowing large teams to work more effectively together. Some standard practices include:

  • Factories
  • Pub/Sub
  • Public-key Cryptography
  • Agile

 

These are four common patterns in the industry; it ranges from highly technical to broader, more process-oriented points. Factories are very code-oriented, while pub/sub is more architectural. While public-key cryptography has general importance, libraries to support its operations are available for almost every programming language in everyday use, making it generally short of implementation.

At the other end of the expanse, “Agile” remains unavailable: a point and a tool among developers, project managers, and other stakeholders about precisely what it means and how it should be implemented. From Narrow or broad, technical or process-oriented, excellent working knowledge of these patterns is an essential component in a technologist’s toolbox.

 

What is an Anti-Pattern?

A “pattern” is a known-to-work solution to a common software engineering problem (anti-pattern). Anti-patterns do not incorporate the idea of failure to do the right thing, including options that seem right at face value but direct to trouble in the long run.

Note the reference to “a common response.” Anti-patterns are not a few mistakes; they are familiar and always followed with good choices. As with regular patterns, anti-patterns can be broad or very specific, and there may be hundreds to consider in the realms of programming languages and frameworks.

From the blog Andrew Lam’s little blog by Andrew Lam and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

week-15

Hello, blog (mood-status: relax), writing this blog after coming home from work, finishing the exams, and submitting assignments. But anyway, on writing about this week-15. I am writing this as my “final” blog for the year 2021 for real. I decided to go on the Syllabus once again to look at the course topics. Then I choose the subject of the Patterns & anti-patterns.

 

Patterns

Patterns are part of everyday language, but it’s essential to discuss algorithms to understand their importance in software engineering. An algorithm performs a daily task like sorting a list of items, storing data for efficient retrieval, or counting occurrences of an object within a data set.

 Algorithms are among the most used fundamental concepts in software engineering. It mainly highlights proofs of its solutions and its only code samples in obscure, ancient languages such as Algol or MIX Assembly. Despite much covered: singly- and double-linked lists, trees, garbage collection, etc. The details are hiding in problematic libraries, but the concepts are the same. These algorithms have remained reasonable solutions to common software engineering problems for more than five decades and are still going strong.

A “pattern” can be a general structure of an algorithm. In algorithm focus on a specific programming task, a pattern challenges beyond that domain and areas such as reducing defect rates, increasing code maintainability or allowing large teams to work more effectively together. Some standard practices include:

  • Factories
  • Pub/Sub
  • Public-key Cryptography
  • Agile

 

These are four common patterns in the industry; it ranges from highly technical to broader, more process-oriented points. Factories are very code-oriented, while pub/sub is more architectural. While public-key cryptography has general importance, libraries to support its operations are available for almost every programming language in everyday use, making it generally short of implementation.

At the other end of the expanse, “Agile” remains unavailable: a point and a tool among developers, project managers, and other stakeholders about precisely what it means and how it should be implemented. From Narrow or broad, technical or process-oriented, excellent working knowledge of these patterns is an essential component in a technologist’s toolbox.

 

What is an Anti-Pattern?

A “pattern” is a known-to-work solution to a common software engineering problem (anti-pattern). Anti-patterns do not incorporate the idea of failure to do the right thing, including options that seem right at face value but direct to trouble in the long run.

Note the reference to “a common response.” Anti-patterns are not a few mistakes; they are familiar and always followed with good choices. As with regular patterns, anti-patterns can be broad or very specific, and there may be hundreds to consider in the realms of programming languages and frameworks.

From the blog Andrew Lam’s little blog by Andrew Lam and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

week-15

Hello, blog (mood-status: relax), writing this blog after coming home from work, finishing the exams, and submitting assignments. But anyway, on writing about this week-15. I am writing this as my “final” blog for the year 2021 for real. I decided to go on the Syllabus once again to look at the course topics. Then I choose the subject of the Patterns & anti-patterns.

 

Patterns

Patterns are part of everyday language, but it’s essential to discuss algorithms to understand their importance in software engineering. An algorithm performs a daily task like sorting a list of items, storing data for efficient retrieval, or counting occurrences of an object within a data set.

 Algorithms are among the most used fundamental concepts in software engineering. It mainly highlights proofs of its solutions and its only code samples in obscure, ancient languages such as Algol or MIX Assembly. Despite much covered: singly- and double-linked lists, trees, garbage collection, etc. The details are hiding in problematic libraries, but the concepts are the same. These algorithms have remained reasonable solutions to common software engineering problems for more than five decades and are still going strong.

A “pattern” can be a general structure of an algorithm. In algorithm focus on a specific programming task, a pattern challenges beyond that domain and areas such as reducing defect rates, increasing code maintainability or allowing large teams to work more effectively together. Some standard practices include:

  • Factories
  • Pub/Sub
  • Public-key Cryptography
  • Agile

 

These are four common patterns in the industry; it ranges from highly technical to broader, more process-oriented points. Factories are very code-oriented, while pub/sub is more architectural. While public-key cryptography has general importance, libraries to support its operations are available for almost every programming language in everyday use, making it generally short of implementation.

At the other end of the expanse, “Agile” remains unavailable: a point and a tool among developers, project managers, and other stakeholders about precisely what it means and how it should be implemented. From Narrow or broad, technical or process-oriented, excellent working knowledge of these patterns is an essential component in a technologist’s toolbox.

 

What is an Anti-Pattern?

A “pattern” is a known-to-work solution to a common software engineering problem (anti-pattern). Anti-patterns do not incorporate the idea of failure to do the right thing, including options that seem right at face value but direct to trouble in the long run.

Note the reference to “a common response.” Anti-patterns are not a few mistakes; they are familiar and always followed with good choices. As with regular patterns, anti-patterns can be broad or very specific, and there may be hundreds to consider in the realms of programming languages and frameworks.

From the blog Andrew Lam’s little blog by Andrew Lam and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

week-15

Hello, blog (mood-status: relax), writing this blog after coming home from work, finishing the exams, and submitting assignments. But anyway, on writing about this week-15. I am writing this as my “final” blog for the year 2021 for real. I decided to go on the Syllabus once again to look at the course topics. Then I choose the subject of the Patterns & anti-patterns.

 

Patterns

Patterns are part of everyday language, but it’s essential to discuss algorithms to understand their importance in software engineering. An algorithm performs a daily task like sorting a list of items, storing data for efficient retrieval, or counting occurrences of an object within a data set.

 Algorithms are among the most used fundamental concepts in software engineering. It mainly highlights proofs of its solutions and its only code samples in obscure, ancient languages such as Algol or MIX Assembly. Despite much covered: singly- and double-linked lists, trees, garbage collection, etc. The details are hiding in problematic libraries, but the concepts are the same. These algorithms have remained reasonable solutions to common software engineering problems for more than five decades and are still going strong.

A “pattern” can be a general structure of an algorithm. In algorithm focus on a specific programming task, a pattern challenges beyond that domain and areas such as reducing defect rates, increasing code maintainability or allowing large teams to work more effectively together. Some standard practices include:

  • Factories
  • Pub/Sub
  • Public-key Cryptography
  • Agile

 

These are four common patterns in the industry; it ranges from highly technical to broader, more process-oriented points. Factories are very code-oriented, while pub/sub is more architectural. While public-key cryptography has general importance, libraries to support its operations are available for almost every programming language in everyday use, making it generally short of implementation.

At the other end of the expanse, “Agile” remains unavailable: a point and a tool among developers, project managers, and other stakeholders about precisely what it means and how it should be implemented. From Narrow or broad, technical or process-oriented, excellent working knowledge of these patterns is an essential component in a technologist’s toolbox.

 

What is an Anti-Pattern?

A “pattern” is a known-to-work solution to a common software engineering problem (anti-pattern). Anti-patterns do not incorporate the idea of failure to do the right thing, including options that seem right at face value but direct to trouble in the long run.

Note the reference to “a common response.” Anti-patterns are not a few mistakes; they are familiar and always followed with good choices. As with regular patterns, anti-patterns can be broad or very specific, and there may be hundreds to consider in the realms of programming languages and frameworks.

From the blog Andrew Lam’s little blog by Andrew Lam and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

week-15

Hello, blog (mood-status: relax), writing this blog after coming home from work, finishing the exams, and submitting assignments. But anyway, on writing about this week-15. I am writing this as my “final” blog for the year 2021 for real. I decided to go on the Syllabus once again to look at the course topics. Then I choose the subject of the Patterns & anti-patterns.

 

Patterns

Patterns are part of everyday language, but it’s essential to discuss algorithms to understand their importance in software engineering. An algorithm performs a daily task like sorting a list of items, storing data for efficient retrieval, or counting occurrences of an object within a data set.

 Algorithms are among the most used fundamental concepts in software engineering. It mainly highlights proofs of its solutions and its only code samples in obscure, ancient languages such as Algol or MIX Assembly. Despite much covered: singly- and double-linked lists, trees, garbage collection, etc. The details are hiding in problematic libraries, but the concepts are the same. These algorithms have remained reasonable solutions to common software engineering problems for more than five decades and are still going strong.

A “pattern” can be a general structure of an algorithm. In algorithm focus on a specific programming task, a pattern challenges beyond that domain and areas such as reducing defect rates, increasing code maintainability or allowing large teams to work more effectively together. Some standard practices include:

  • Factories
  • Pub/Sub
  • Public-key Cryptography
  • Agile

 

These are four common patterns in the industry; it ranges from highly technical to broader, more process-oriented points. Factories are very code-oriented, while pub/sub is more architectural. While public-key cryptography has general importance, libraries to support its operations are available for almost every programming language in everyday use, making it generally short of implementation.

At the other end of the expanse, “Agile” remains unavailable: a point and a tool among developers, project managers, and other stakeholders about precisely what it means and how it should be implemented. From Narrow or broad, technical or process-oriented, excellent working knowledge of these patterns is an essential component in a technologist’s toolbox.

 

What is an Anti-Pattern?

A “pattern” is a known-to-work solution to a common software engineering problem (anti-pattern). Anti-patterns do not incorporate the idea of failure to do the right thing, including options that seem right at face value but direct to trouble in the long run.

Note the reference to “a common response.” Anti-patterns are not a few mistakes; they are familiar and always followed with good choices. As with regular patterns, anti-patterns can be broad or very specific, and there may be hundreds to consider in the realms of programming languages and frameworks.

From the blog Andrew Lam’s little blog by Andrew Lam and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

week-15

Hello, blog (mood-status: relax), writing this blog after coming home from work, finishing the exams, and submitting assignments. But anyway, on writing about this week-15. I am writing this as my “final” blog for the year 2021 for real. I decided to go on the Syllabus once again to look at the course topics. Then I choose the subject of the Patterns & anti-patterns.

 

Patterns

Patterns are part of everyday language, but it’s essential to discuss algorithms to understand their importance in software engineering. An algorithm performs a daily task like sorting a list of items, storing data for efficient retrieval, or counting occurrences of an object within a data set.

 Algorithms are among the most used fundamental concepts in software engineering. It mainly highlights proofs of its solutions and its only code samples in obscure, ancient languages such as Algol or MIX Assembly. Despite much covered: singly- and double-linked lists, trees, garbage collection, etc. The details are hiding in problematic libraries, but the concepts are the same. These algorithms have remained reasonable solutions to common software engineering problems for more than five decades and are still going strong.

A “pattern” can be a general structure of an algorithm. In algorithm focus on a specific programming task, a pattern challenges beyond that domain and areas such as reducing defect rates, increasing code maintainability or allowing large teams to work more effectively together. Some standard practices include:

  • Factories
  • Pub/Sub
  • Public-key Cryptography
  • Agile

 

These are four common patterns in the industry; it ranges from highly technical to broader, more process-oriented points. Factories are very code-oriented, while pub/sub is more architectural. While public-key cryptography has general importance, libraries to support its operations are available for almost every programming language in everyday use, making it generally short of implementation.

At the other end of the expanse, “Agile” remains unavailable: a point and a tool among developers, project managers, and other stakeholders about precisely what it means and how it should be implemented. From Narrow or broad, technical or process-oriented, excellent working knowledge of these patterns is an essential component in a technologist’s toolbox.

 

What is an Anti-Pattern?

A “pattern” is a known-to-work solution to a common software engineering problem (anti-pattern). Anti-patterns do not incorporate the idea of failure to do the right thing, including options that seem right at face value but direct to trouble in the long run.

Note the reference to “a common response.” Anti-patterns are not a few mistakes; they are familiar and always followed with good choices. As with regular patterns, anti-patterns can be broad or very specific, and there may be hundreds to consider in the realms of programming languages and frameworks.

From the blog Andrew Lam’s little blog by Andrew Lam and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

week-15

Hello, blog (mood-status: relax), writing this blog after coming home from work, finishing the exams, and submitting assignments. But anyway, on writing about this week-15. I am writing this as my “final” blog for the year 2021 for real. I decided to go on the Syllabus once again to look at the course topics. Then I choose the subject of the Patterns & anti-patterns.

 

Patterns

Patterns are part of everyday language, but it’s essential to discuss algorithms to understand their importance in software engineering. An algorithm performs a daily task like sorting a list of items, storing data for efficient retrieval, or counting occurrences of an object within a data set.

 Algorithms are among the most used fundamental concepts in software engineering. It mainly highlights proofs of its solutions and its only code samples in obscure, ancient languages such as Algol or MIX Assembly. Despite much covered: singly- and double-linked lists, trees, garbage collection, etc. The details are hiding in problematic libraries, but the concepts are the same. These algorithms have remained reasonable solutions to common software engineering problems for more than five decades and are still going strong.

A “pattern” can be a general structure of an algorithm. In algorithm focus on a specific programming task, a pattern challenges beyond that domain and areas such as reducing defect rates, increasing code maintainability or allowing large teams to work more effectively together. Some standard practices include:

  • Factories
  • Pub/Sub
  • Public-key Cryptography
  • Agile

 

These are four common patterns in the industry; it ranges from highly technical to broader, more process-oriented points. Factories are very code-oriented, while pub/sub is more architectural. While public-key cryptography has general importance, libraries to support its operations are available for almost every programming language in everyday use, making it generally short of implementation.

At the other end of the expanse, “Agile” remains unavailable: a point and a tool among developers, project managers, and other stakeholders about precisely what it means and how it should be implemented. From Narrow or broad, technical or process-oriented, excellent working knowledge of these patterns is an essential component in a technologist’s toolbox.

 

What is an Anti-Pattern?

A “pattern” is a known-to-work solution to a common software engineering problem (anti-pattern). Anti-patterns do not incorporate the idea of failure to do the right thing, including options that seem right at face value but direct to trouble in the long run.

Note the reference to “a common response.” Anti-patterns are not a few mistakes; they are familiar and always followed with good choices. As with regular patterns, anti-patterns can be broad or very specific, and there may be hundreds to consider in the realms of programming languages and frameworks.

From the blog Andrew Lam’s little blog by Andrew Lam and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.