Week 1: CST438 & CST462S
This week felt overwhelming even though the assignments themselves were simple. There were just many of them at once, and the most stressful part was trying to communicate and form 3 different groups for 3 different projects across two classes, CST438 and CST462S, so coordinating with everyone and figuring out who is working with whom took more effort than the actual assignments. But we got it done and hopefully everything will go smooth, In CST438 , we learned how to build and test a REST backend using the Spring framework. In the first lab, we created a Spring Boot application that allows customers to register, create orders, and view their order history while storing data in an H2 database using JPA entities and repositories. We also implemented validation rules to ensure that incoming data was correct and added security using Basic authentication and JWT tokens so that users could only access their own data. In the second lab, we focused on un...