Making Your Decks 10x Better

Week 13 is approaching. So are the deadlines of school projects. In the midst of finishing project reports and preparing  presentation slides, I chanced upon the handout given by Prof Damith months ago on how to make a better pitch deck. The talk was meant to prepare us for assignment 2 presentation. This is long …

Facebook App Assignment Feedback Reflection

Hey everyone. It has been some time since I updated this blog. I was caught up by work  and didn't really publish anything here. Since this week is relatively less busy, it's a good time for me to publish what have been sitting around in my drafts for quite some time. Let's start with my …

Assignment 1 Reflection

After a few days of sleepless nights, my group is finally done with the first assignment (Check it out here). It is basically an app for couples (ideally LDR) in which they can send rich text and media message to each other. However, unlike other messaging app, the sender can set a specific time period …

Business Calendar vs Google Calendar: A Humble Review

I was tasked to review Group 8's presentation on Business Calendar. Instead of solely criticizing the app, I would like to compare it with another calendar app that I actively use, Google Calendar, and see whether Business Calendar is good enough to convince me to switch over. In my review, I will use my personal …

When your team need more Front-End: Learning React from 0

Having background mostly in Back-End development, I know no Front-End framework at all. Apart from basic HTML, CSS and JS as well as templating frameworks like Jinja2 and Blaze, other Front-End terms seem foreign to me. Nevertheless, when your project need more people as Front-End engineer, you have to pick up the framework quick and …

What I hope to learn in CS3216

Hi I’m Max, a final year Business Analytics student from School of Computing! Although my course mainly teaches me about data analytics, I have been exploring my personal interest in web development and software engineering related stuff. Having the privilege to know web development empowers me to crystallize my (random) ideas to something tangible and …