Author Archives: Mohammad Al-Abassi

TFM Co-Op: Final Week

It has been a long time coming, but I am finally finishing my co-op this week at Target Freight Management! Although it was 3 months, it seemed to go a lot quicker with all the work and learning that I have been doing. I have accomplished more than I thought I would when I started.

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TFM Co-Op: Week 13

It is almost the end of the co-op, and I have learned so much here in my time as a web developer intern. There are so many skills that are needed in order to contribute to the larger IT goals of an organization. Although my title is Web Developer and I primarily work on our

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TFM Co-Op: Week 12

For this past week, there were a few challenges I had to get past in order to implement certain parts of the project, but with a little persistence and the help of my teammates I was able to overcome all my issues. I had to fix a few things on the front-end of our project

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Week 10 Reflection: TFM Co-Op

10 weeks have already passed, and I feel like I just started yesterday! It has truly been a great experience working with the team here and learning valuable skills in web development. This past week mostly consisted of debugging and making sure my project fits the proper requirements. I was able to finish the functional

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Week 9 Reflection: TFM Co-Op

I am pleased to complete another week here at Target Freight Management, time really flies when you are writing code! This week I added some more contributions to the project, namely the functional acknowledgement (FA) that I started last week. As our project grows in size and scope, I am learning how different pieces of

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Week 8 Reflection: TFM Co-Op

The past week was very busy in terms of the work that was completed on my project. As I look back to the beginning of the Co-Op, it is almost hard to believe how much we have accomplished in a few short weeks. I have learned so many things about programming and development and feel

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Week 7 Reflection: TFM Co-op

This week at TFM, I continued making progress with the project and getting closer to a working version that will be ready for deployment. The big parts I worked on this week was adding improvements to the user interface and working with the database to get the correct records to display them to the screen.

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Week 6 Reflection: TFM co-op

This past week was one of the more challenging and productive weeks of our co-op so far. As we started to put the finishing touches on our program, we ran into a few obstacles with having to re-organize the business logic of our parsing program, but that only helped us get better at debugging and

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Week 5 Reflection: TFM Co-Op

Another week has passed working at Target Freight Management and I continue to learn more about our business and our role as developers. This week we continued to update our database while setting up a connection to an FTP server for our clients to send their documents to. This will enable our program to read

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Week 4 Reflection:

This was a pretty short week since we were off for Labor Day Monday, and I am off on Fridays. Also my supervisor was out of town on a business trip so I was mostly left to do things on my own the whole time. Although we had less help than usual, I feel that

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