Determined Roots At the beginning of this semester, we were all asked the question “What are you most excited to learn in this course?”. Though others had answers like “I want to build a website” or “I want to learn...

The Bowl Solution Suppose that someone had tasked you to “make a bowl”. That’s it. No other instructions on how to create said bowl nor any specific materials on what to make the bowl out of. All you know is...

The Appeal of a Beautiful User Interface In the same way that fashion styles, advertisements, and special effects are constantly changing and adapting with the times, so too are the user interfaces seen on websites across the internet. Websites in...

Training Wheels A problem that I have always encountered when it came to many different school assignments in elementary through high school was the fact that many times the way that an assignment had to be structured was not clearly...

Dreaming Before Doing From the time in which I was a very young child, I was always interested in the different intricacies of everyday objects and appliances around me. I liked building things and taking them apart, so I was...

Unfamiliarity The computer science track at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has always been a shaky one as I really had no previous experience with computer science in the past. Growing up I had no problem sitting behind a...