Maya DeBellis mdebel01 Comp 20 - Fall 2016

The purpose of this GitHub respository is to contain and display several assignments I worked on in Comp 20 - Web Programming.

My favorite assignment that I worked on was the 2048 server-side assignment. Before this, I had never worked with databases before and I enjoyed learning more about how all of the different platforms and technologies connect.

I think I have grown a lot since day 1 of this course. Previously, I had very basic understanding of HTML/CSS/Javascript and had no comcept about how servers or the internet really worked. It was amazing to learn more about the web, the internet, and the tools used to build web applications.

The most important thing I learned this semester is that there is much more to being a "software engineer" than just writing a program that works. There are many other aspects to keep in mind like scalability and security. The security assignment showed me how much I am oblivious to security measures in my work and how important tand overlooked they are. In my group project I thought a lot about the functionality of having a multiplayer game and how we could have many of these occuring at the same time. I really enjoyed the problem solving that went into this and spending a lot of time thinking about the architecture of the system before writing any code.

After spending my group project focusing on server side code and MongoDB, I would love to explore using other databases like SQL style databases and Firebase.