Maya Chang

Student

I am studying for a B.S. in Computer Science in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii. I expect to graduate in Spring, 2025.


Interests: Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Animation, Foreign Language Learning


Projects

Manoa Recipes 2023

A web application that aids college students in finding and sharing easy-to-make recipes.

React Bootstrap Meteor MongoDB GitHub

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Introducing Me 2023

I developed a simple project to help ICSpark students practice the basics of HTML and CSS.

HTML CSS Javascript

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Bike Lane Bonanza 2021

My Climate Crew Cohort III developed and hosted a bike challenge to celebrate the opening of the new bike lane on Oahu.

Canva Instagram

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Essays

Chapter, Closed; What's Next?

10 May 2023

At First Glance Admittedly, the majority of my time in school has been governed by the same cycle: memorize, then purge, memorize, then purge. My only goal throughout highschool was to get straight As and get into the best college...

Software Engineering Reflection

The Building Blocks of an Application

27 Apr 2023

The Value of Design Patterns When building any application without proper organization, a developer’s code is at risk of becoming unruly and unmanageable very quickly. Design patterns offer a way to mitigate this issue by allowing a coder to split...

Software Engineering Design Patterns

The Ease of Frameworks

23 Feb 2023

Exploring UI Frameworks Despite having played around with HTML, Javascript and CSS for a while now, Bootstrap 5 was my first encounter with a UI Framework. Although I do find it helpful in some aspects, learning how to use it...

UI Frameworks HTML CSS

Sturdy Foundations

09 Feb 2023

Initial Thoughts As a person who feels most at ease with at least some form of rules and order, I have no particular grievance against coding standards. This extends to ESLint with IntelliJ. Although I do sometimes find getting the...

Coding Standards Javascript

Goals of a Sleep-Deprived College Student

02 Feb 2023

Naivety Having come into this class with prior experience with HTML, CSS and Javascript, I am slightly ashamed to say I expected this class to be a simple web development course where we made pretty websites and called it a...

Software Engineering

The 'Right' Way to Question

26 Jan 2023

In order to get a good answer one must first learn how to ask the right question. This is especially true in the field of computer science in which the quality of the answer a person receives is directly dependent...

Smart Questions Stack Overflow

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