TJ Acasio

Student

I'm a student studying for a B.S in Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, focusing on web application development and software engineering best practices. I expect to graduate in Spring 2027.


Interests: Software Engineering & Web Development, Data Science & Analytics, Sustainability , Gaming, Fitness


Projects

A Simple Coin Flip Simulator 2025

During my time learning C, I created a coin simulator that outputs the amount of times a coin either lands on heads or tails"

C Terminal Programming

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RIBows: Finding UH Mānoa RIOs 2025

RIBows is a web app that helps UH Mānoa students search for Registered Independent Organizations (RIOs), bookmark them, and explore club details through a clean, card-based interface.

TypeScript Next.js React Prisma PostgreSQL

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Assignment Tracker 2024

I developed a spreadsheet that tracks an assignment/project's due date and displays the days remaining until the deadline.

Management Spreadsheets

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KAPA FM: KSWCD 60-Second Sustainability PSA 2023-05-05

Guest speaker with KSWCD leaders & students in a 1-minute live radio spot: public awareness on soil erosion prevention, water conservation, and flood prevention in North & South Kona.

Sustainability Resource Management Volunteering

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Essays

A Time Was Had

24 Dec 2025

Estimating or Best Guess? For effort estimates, I mostly relied on breaking an issue down into steps and using my own recent experience as a benchmark. It was mainly how similar tasks felt earlier in the semester and at a...

Questions Essay

Copilot, Not Autopilot

22 Dec 2025

I. Introduction The use of AI has become increasingly prevalent in higher education, particularly in fields like Computer Science, including software engineering, and others. In today’s world of learning, problem-solving, and productivity, tools such as coding assistants, automated debugging systems,...

AI Essay Software Engineering

Reflecting on what I Learned About Software Engineering

17 Dec 2025

Introduction Over this semester, I realized this course was less about “learning React and Next.js” and more about learning how to think like a software engineer. The tools happened to be for web apps, but a lot of what we...

Software Engineering Essay

Why don't U and I Frame these Works

08 Oct 2025

How does one do this? Moore was correct; this was indeed one of the most harrowing and tedious units. I was familiar with HTML but very new to Bootstrap 5 before this module. I know it’s redundant to say it...

Bootsrap 5 Essay UI Frameworks

Coding Standards? I Think Mine Are Pretty High

24 Sep 2025

ESLint more like ESWimp To be honest, when I first heard the term “coding standards,” I assumed it mainly referred to small problems, such as whether to indent two spaces or four, or whether to use curly braces on the...

Questions Essay Coding Standards

Akamai Questions

10 Sep 2025

As we set out to be software engineers, asking questions is a big part of the work. Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen’s “How To Ask Questions The Smart Way” gives us a template for requesting help such as doing...

Questions Answers StackOverflow

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