On my first day of second grade, my teacher comes in and sits at her desk. She immediately starts stomping and clapping in sequence. She continues to do this for about five minutes until the confused students have to ask...

HTML and UI Frameworks: An Introduction One of my biggest dreams and aspirations for my computer science degree was to learn how to build a highly functional and visually appealing website to help someone or something. However, I never had...

Coding Standards: An Introduction Everyone loves seeing a green checkmark on something. Usually, that signifies a type of accomplishment and people feel a lot of personal satisfaction. In terms of programming, a green checkmark appears in the IntelliJ IDE when...

Good vs. Bad Questions Just the other day, I was sitting in one of my lecture classes. The professor said “Gosh, I can’t remember when I had a class that asked so many good questions”. Most if not all teachers...

Learning New Languages Learning a new language is always a struggle. For example, currently, I am learning Japanese at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I am currently at the 202 level and we are expected to be fluent in...

One of everyone’s passions in life is to help someone or something for the better. For me, my hope is that I can eventually do this with a computer. Computers have always interested me from the moment I started using...