Jayden Tactay

Student

I am an aspiring software engineer pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I expect to graduate in Spring, 2024.


Interests: Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics


Projects

HACC-Hui 2023-11-29

A program developed during ICS 414 that allows for easier team management for the Hawaii Annual Code Challenge.

Software Engineering JavaScript React

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That's My Spot! 2022-12-13

A program developed for ICS 314 that allows users to reserve parking stalls in the UH Manoa Zone 20 parking structure.

Software Engineering JavaScript HTML/CSS

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Sorter GUI 2021-10-24

A sorter GUI that visually displays different sorting algorithms in action.

Algorithms Sorting Python

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Hangman 2021-04-23

A graphical recreation of the hangman game created for AP Computer Science Principles.

Game Development Python

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Essays

Through It All

11 Dec 2023

Another semester, another high-stress preparation period for finals week — scratch that, another high-stress 16 weeks. As I seek to wrap up my undergraduate studies and graduate next Spring semester, before moving on to full-time graduate school for University of...

Software Engineering JavaScript React Bootstrap

Efficient is Sufficient

14 Dec 2022

As I write this, Fall 2022 is nearing its end, and finals week is in high gear. Thankfully, my ICS 314 course has no final “exam”, allowing me to redirect my stress to other finals (cough cough PHYS 272 and...

Software Engineering Coding Standards Design Patterns

This Just In: Design Patterns

30 Nov 2022

Developers encounter problems of some sort on a daily basis, especially with programming. Something fails to compile, a program does not run as it is intended, an error somewhere crashes a program. The recurrence of these issues eventually leads to...

Software Engineering Design Patterns

What's On Your 'Face?

06 Oct 2022

HTML and CSS are the languages of the Web. HTML lays the basic foundation of a page and CSS heavily supports the page with its styling capabilities. Going hand-in-hand, these two languages create almost the entirety of the web, but...

Software Engineering UI Frameworks Bootstrap

A Method to the Madness

22 Sep 2022

Picture this: you are a software engineer working on a team project. One team member, no matter how hard they try, just cannot get their code to work. No amount of brainstorming, debugging, or StackOverflow surfing on their end is...

Programming Coding Standards

Is There Such Thing As A Dumb Question?

08 Sep 2022

According to Carl Sagan, “there is no such thing as a dumb question”. As he says, all questions are asked to gain an understanding of some topic. While it might be true that no question is inherently dumb, how it...

Questions Answers StackOverflow

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