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Education Abroad

Jan. 24, 2023

    When I began college in 2020, I never thought that I would travel abroad to study at a foreign university, but today I am preparing for that very event. I started the process last year in March, asking the education abroad department at Kansas State University about the program and what I would need to do to qualify. After several meetings with advisors, estimating the costs of the program, and considering my future ambition...

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Career Milestone

Dec. 12, 2022

    This week is my 6-month milestone while working at Novacoast/Pillr, and I have learned a lot since then. Most programming/development revolves around test-driven development, where the basis of the feature is set up, and the unit tests confirm that it performs as expected. Before taking the internship job, I had minimal experience with test-driven development, but I am happy to now have the experience in it which has changed my way ...

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Graduation from Community College

May 31, 2022

    I am happy to announce that I am now a college graduate from Butler Community College! I've spent the past two years studying Software Development, and I feel ever more confident in my craft of developing programs and websites, and using other software development technologies. I've been awarded the Dean's Honor Roll certificates for 2021 and 2022, as well as the Order of the Purple medallion and certificate. I'm proud of my work...

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April Update

April 10, 2022

Welcome to the April update!

    So far 2022 has been a very productive year for me. I am set to graduate from Butler Community College in early May, which will propel me in continuing my education at Kansas State University. Though, I have switched over to the computer science program at the Manhattan campus. This is due to reconsidering the utility that a bachelor's degree would serve me in my software development career....

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Parsing JSON Data with Python

March 12, 2022

    Welcome to my first tutorial! I've been very busy with working and finishing my last semester at Butler Community College, but I hope to post more often, especially with helpful tutorials like this one. I'm assuming that you already have a good amount of experience with Python, you should be able to follow along pretty easily. However, if you are new to Python but would like to know how to parse through JSON, I will...

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