Essays

After a Semester of Software Engineering

06 Dec 2023

The Semester for me… As this semester is coming to a close, I have found that my definition and perspective on software engineering has changed significantly since the first day of class. Coming into ICS 314 Software Engineering, I was...

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Recipes in Coding

29 Nov 2023

The Recipe ! To be completely honest I did not know what design patterns were before being assigned this essay. Upon a little bit of research, though, I learned that a design pattern is essentially a solution to a certain...

Software Engineering Design Patterns

Keeping up With AI

19 Nov 2023

Introduction AI, specifically within education, gets a bad rep. Of course there’s good reason for a lot of this negative reputation, whether that be plagiarizing whole essays or students using resources like ChatGPT to get out of doing work themselves....

Software Engineering AI Education

Final Project Idea

30 Oct 2023

Project: Study Abroad Central Overview The problem: UH Manoa has multiple programs for study abroad and exchange opportunities, Manoa International Exchange (MIX), Study Abroad Center, and National Student Exchange. However, these programs are all separate entities and it can be...

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Understanding and Using Frameworks

02 Oct 2023

A website built with Bootstrap framework: One built without a framework: As shown above, the differences between a website that a total novice can create with using Bootstrap, a UI framework created to help make building websites significantly easier, and...

Software Engineering Learning

The Appeal of Coding Standards

18 Sep 2023

About coding style… Coding style is something that often seems unimportant in comparison to actual code being able to run or perform at a certain time constraint. However, in reality, the benefits of sticking with a consistent coding style, in...

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Learning Smart Questions and Smart Answers

05 Sep 2023

My Experience… Ever since taking ICS 111 asynchronously over the summer at the beginning of my computer science degree, StackOverflow has been a site I could 100 percent list under my “Most Visited Websites”. While I have never personally posted...

Software Engineering StackOverflow

At Least it Looks Better than C

28 Aug 2023

Last semester, in ICS 212, I had the opportunity to learn the programming language C, and while there were a lot of interesting topics, uses, and especially background to the language, it was kind of a pain to code in....

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Gaining Experience in a New Field

28 Aug 2023

It is often said that the first steps are the hardest. While I can agree to that statement to some extent, I also believe that it is midway through the journey, when the mind and body have started to wear...

Software Engineering