12 May 2021
As yet another semester wraps up with finals, sleep deprivation, and a long-awaited summer break, another level of an aspiring programmer’s journey is achieved. Although a few months is a very short amount of time, during these last few months...
29 Apr 2021
Blueprints or Aesthetics? As soon as I heard the words “design patterns”, my immediate thought was that this might be the way a computer scientist’s code is written in clean, organized lines, or how the program and/or application is visually...
25 Feb 2021
Welcome to Design 101 “Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” -Paul Rand As someone who entered the realm of computer science by typing up HTML snippets, I felt...
11 Feb 2021
Start of my Coding Journey When I first started programming in college, my code was all over the place, and I didn’t realize there was anything wrong until someone pointed it out, and helped me clean my code. I was...
27 Jan 2021
What exactly does it mean to ask “smart” questions? To one person, it could be a question that has a thought-provoking, open-ended answer, and to another, it might be a question that many other people were curious about, but weren’t...
21 Jan 2021
Personally, ever since I started learning computer science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, I was always drawn to and was interested in taking this class. As a new student, most people I was acquainted with and befriended were...
21 Jan 2021
A Whole New Field I remember reading somewhere that it takes half a year in order to learn a new programming language. While I was surprised by this, it also made reasonable sense. I was surprised because generally in order...