Samantha Kocher

Student

I am studying for a B.S. in Computer Science - Security Science in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences, with a Minor in Japanese from the Japanesee Language in the East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii. I expect to graduate in Spring, 2025 and fulfill a career in Cyber Security.


Interests: Cyber Security, Encryption, Data Security, Network Security


Projects

Kalo Stems 2024

An application built for University of Hawaii at Manoa students to connect students with companies.

IntelliJ React Meteor Bootstrap Web Application Design Team work and Communication

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The Journey of Growing 2021

A collection of my top literature pieces from high school.

Writing Senior Portfolio

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EM Hawaii 2021

EM Hawaii is a local organization that creates various things organically, with a main product being a solution of micro-organisms (good bacteria) that have many beneficial capabilities like cleaning in the house or even cleaning polluted waters like the Ala Wai.

Environmental Organic EM Hawaii

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Essays

Living in the Software Engineering Realm

09 May 2024

Throughout this past semester, I was able to dip my feet into the software engineering realm where I got a sneak peek of what it feels like to built custom and cool applications, website, or just functions in general. Although...

Software Engineering UI Frameworks Coding Standards Agile Project Management Outside Applications

Integrating AI

03 May 2024

I. Introduction Everyone knows that AI is the future. It’s what almost everyone and anyone will turn to with any question, regardless if they are “tech-savvy” or not. Of course, it depends on the type of AI application being used,...

AI ChatGPT Education

The Patterns of Prototypes

25 Apr 2024

When it comes to thinking of software engineering, you may think, “Oh, engineering a software to run by coding a bunch of things.” However, the part that people may not think of is what engineering is the software engineer actually...

Javascript Design Patterns

Bootstrap: What's So Good About It?

22 Feb 2024

Welcome to the world of UI Frameworks, but more specifically, Bootstrap 5. To start, a UI Framework is a User Interface Framework that is a set of pre-designed and pre-coded elements, components, and tools for developers to use to create...

UI Frameworks Software Engineering Informative Bootstrap

Why Does Question Format Matter?

25 Jan 2024

When asking questions in times where help or advice is needed, it is important to adjust your question to the audience in which you are asking it to. In the Computer Science world, it is important to value one’s time...

Questions Lesson Advice

JavaScript and Internet Slang

17 Jan 2024

Javascript is a type of programming language that was reportedly created over a weekend. With just a weekend, I think it is crazy how intricate and complex, yet simple and efficient it is! As my only prior experience with programming...

JavaScript Internet Slang