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MBA student reflection – July 21, 2025
Robotics Conferences: RoboCup 2025 Salvador What do you think of robots? This was a pretty interesting conference that happened this past week: RoboCup 2025 Salvador. This is the video recording of the events that happened this week: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2517563463?filter=all&sort=time. Please take a look. I personally think that robotics is still in its infancy. I feel like
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MBA student reflection – June 27, 2025
I am about half way through my last class at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The class is called Operations Management. It has been a pretty exciting 3 years in this online MBA program. As I start applying to jobs that require skills of my education background, I am also exploring further education and training. Three
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MBA student reflection – May 14, 2025
I’m coming to the end of my MBA program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It has been a pretty good experience so far. It has taken me about 3 years to complete the coursework in this MBA program. I just have 1 more class and the program capstone before I graduate. I am learning
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How to jump in a 2d Unity Game
If you are making a 2d unity project, whether it be a platformer or another type of game, jumping is a common mechanism. Lets start by creating an empty C# class called PlayerJump. In this C# class, lets first grab the rigid body which allows our character to move around. Also, lets create a jumpSpeed
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How is Coding Used in Data Science & Analytics
How is Coding Used in Data Science & Analytics What is Data Science? In recent years the phrase “data science” has become a buzzword in the tech industry. The demand for data scientists has surged since the late 1990s, presenting new job opportunities and research areas for computer scientists. Before we delve into the computer
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How to navigate in Android & Kotlin
Navigation comes up frequently in any standard mobile application. In the android ecosystem, navigation is done with the concept of intents. Intent will navigate from one activity to the next. We can also attach extras to the intent to carry information between activities. In the above code snippet, a new intent is created using the
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How to create a toast in Android Kotlin
Giving user feedback throughout an android application is useful so that the user knows that they are doing the right set of actions in your application. Let’s create a simple button that creates a toast message in this blog post. In our Layout, let’s add a simple button. Now that we have a button to
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Introduction to SQl
SQL is a general programming language that is used to control database tables. It is common to store data in databases in sql format. We will be focusing on postgres in this article. Sql commands are very useful to select and analyze data in our databases. To start the example, lets create a database called
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How to access mouse inputs in Unity
In most computer based video games, mouse input is necessary for movement and selection. Unity game engine makes this relatively simple for us to access mouse inputs. Input module is what we will be using for Unity. In the following examples, 0 stands for the left mouse button, 1 stands for the right mouse button
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How to access keyboard inputs/key presses in your Unity game
Many games will need to receive keyboard inputs for their game to function correctly. Whether it is to shoot or create movement or even special abilities, Unity game engine makes it quite simple for us to accomplish this. The Input class makes this a rather simple process. The Unity documentation page for keycode has all
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