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Asking Questions The Right Way

25 Jan 2024

What makes a question a “Smart Question”? A smart question is often determined by whether the question asker has tried to find the answer themselves. This doesn’t mean that all questions asked without research are bad questions, but instead means...

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What If Tim Duncan Taught Me How To Code?

10 May 2024

Why These Software Engineering Concepts are Fundamental  Personally I am a big fan of basketball and the NBA. I also am a die-hard San Antonio Spurs fan. Many of you may see where I am going with this but for...

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The Effectiveness of AI in the Classroom

05 May 2024

I. Introduction AI is prevalent in our curriculum, the news, and the proffesional world. We can see the effects AI are having on major aspects of our lives, especially as students in Computer Engineering/ Computer Science. Throughout this semester we...

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Design Patterns: A Product of Dynamic Programming

25 Apr 2024

Common Data Patterns Seen In Algorithms Dijkstra's Algorithm Throughout my time at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, I have been introduced to various approaches to problem solving. One of these approaches is dynamic programming, the practice of breaking a...

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Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstrap5

22 Feb 2024

The phrase “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” originated as a phrase meaning that something is impossible. This is relevant because creating a webpage and managing my HTML code seemed to be a daunting task. Thanks to UI Frameworks, such...

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Reflecting on Javascript

17 Jan 2024

This is my first experience with Javascript, but I have worked with C, and Kotlin programming languages. The first big difference in Javascript that I noticed from C is that I no longer needed variable type declarations. Instead Javascript uses...

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Final Project Idea

01 Nov 2022

Happy Hour Finder Overview (including “The problem” and “The solution”) Problem: Different restaurants and bars have happy hours at different times on different days. It can be hard to keep track of when you can get the cheapest deals on...

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