Samantha Mallari

Student

I am currently an undergraduate studying Computer Science in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the combined Bachelor's and Master's pathway. I expect to receive my B.S. in Spring, 2025 and my M.S. in Spring, 2026.


Interests: Software Engineering, ML, AI, NLP, LLMs


Projects

ProfTCG 2024

A Professor Trading Card Game made for the UH Manoa community.

Software Engineering JavaScript React Bootstrap

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Lyla's Ghostly Adventure 2022

A platformer game demo I made as part of my work-based learning internship at Pilina Education.

Game Development UI/UX JavaScript

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Detector Building 2022

My partner and I won 1st place in Detector Building during the 2022 Leeward Regional Science Olympiad.

Arduino Electrical Engineering Chemistry C++

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VEX Scout 2020

My team developed a scouting app for VEX Robotics competitions for my high school hackathon where we won 1st place.

UI/UX Software Development

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Essays

SWE and Me

10 May 2024

It’s been a looooong semester, but by far, I’d have to say this one’s been the most fun. ICS 314: Software Engineering has easily won my heart for being my favorite course I’ve taken so far in my academic journey....

Software Engineering

Let Her Cook!

25 Apr 2024

Programming is a lot like cooking. Every chef knows how to follow a recipe to create a reproducible dish. However, the best chefs know how to customize a recipe and improve it to make something unique. If the components of...

Design Patterns JavaScript

Getting Classy with Bootstrap 5

22 Feb 2024

Bootstrap 5 is a powerful open-source UI framework used by thousands of developers to streamline styling HTML pages. I know a lot of developers who don’t care for design theory, but Bootstrap 5 follows a standard design and coding convention,...

UI/UX Bootstrap 5

Clever Coders Ask Clever Questions

22 Feb 2024

“Asking questions is half of learning.” - Elijah Muhammad In Eric Raymond’s article, How to ask questions the smart way, he outlines what makes a question “bad” and provides a guide on how to ask better questions. For me, asking...

Stack Overflow Smart Questions