Spotting a Pattern Design patterns play a major role in everyone’s lives and is definitely not something that is exclusive to coding. It is essentially the frameworks or building blocks for a solution to a common problem. Design patterns apply...

The Ugly The worst thing anyone wants to see when visiting a website is an ugly website. It’s bad for the brand, it’s bad for the user, it’s just an overall lose-lose situation for everyone. Even if the site is...

Why I (sometimes) Enjoy Standards Coding standards often receive extremely mixed reviews. Many who are beginning to learn coding absolutely hate having to conform to a very specific set of rules regarding things like spacing and rules. I, on the...

What is a “Smart” Question? Eric Steven Raymond and Rick Moen’s “How To Ask Smart Questions” is an interesting article that explains what they believe is a “smart” question and how it helps to produce better answers. The article does...

Past Classes The ICS program at UH Manoa is set up pretty interestingly. Students start at ICS 111, learning the basics of programming using Java. This is continued in ICS 211 as many of the basic ADTs and sorting algorithms...