Leah Yanagisawa

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: Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Photography, Education


Projects

Happening At Manoa - ICS 314 Final 2023-12-14

My group and I created an application for UH Manoa students to become more active in different events going on around campus.

Final Project Software Engineering

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SWITCH STEM Event 2023-04-29

I helped out UH Manoa's SWITCH club in their Supporting Girls in STEM Day.

STEM Education Volunteer work

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Girl Scouts Community Service Projects 2019-2023

I helped various Girl Scout troops raise money to do Take Action projects throughout the community both as a girl scout and as an adult.

Volunteer Work

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Essays

How to: Software Engineering

11 Dec 2023

Going into this class, Software Engineering seemed so arbitrary. I thought hmm if I shot high enough maybe I’d be smart enough, but it wasn’t anything more than an unobtainable goal I kept in the back of my head. Coming...

Software Engineering ICS 314

Design Patterns... but not for clothes

29 Nov 2023

In my experience with coding, not once did I think “hmm, nice design pattern used here.” I usually associate the phrase design patterns with clothing: plaid, stripes, dots, floral, etc. Up until this semester, I did not realize what design...

Software Engineering Design patterns

AI: it's not cheating!

20 Nov 2023

Introduction In almost all of my classes, there has been a new clause added under academic dishonesty called AI usage. Under this section, it states something to the effect of “Students are not permitted to use generative AI applications to...

Software Engineering AI Generative AI

UI Frameworks are meant for U and I

04 Oct 2023

Who knew there could be art in Software Engineering? Not me! Majoring in computer science, I thought it was all about coding and did not anticipate any art to be incorporated into the mix. After creating simple websites and even...

Software Engineering UI Frameworks Semantic UI

Coding Standards: Painful, Useful, or Both?

20 Sep 2023

News Flash: coding standards DO matter! It is very easy to be lazy and say: well it doesn’t matter how I got here, as long as I did it. As easy as it is to not care about the quality...

Software Engineering Coding

Not All Questions Deserve an Answer

05 Sep 2023

Spoiler alert: there is such a thing as a stupid question! From the time I was in primary school, my teachers would always drill it into my brain that there was no such thing as a stupid question. This was...

Software Engineering Smart Questions

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