Joshua Au

Student

I am currently a sophomore majoring in Computer Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I expect to graudate in Spring, 2028.


Interests: Computer Science, Software Engineering, Game Development


Projects

National History Day 2024-07-12

I produced a documentary on the Endangered Species Act that qualified for districts in the 2024 National History Day.

History Awards Project

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GPA Calculator 2024-04-28

A Python program that calculates the user's GPA on a 4.0 scale, based off of user inputs for number of grades and letter grades.

Python Project

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George B Carter Recording Secretary 2024-04-16

I was the 2023-2024 Recording Secretary for the George B. Carter Serteens Club of Hawaii, a gifted and talented club centered around public service.

Club Leadership Planning

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Essays

Framework Makes The Dream Work

26 Feb 2026

Pulling yourself up by your Bootstrap (5) While normally it’s impossible to pull yourself up by your boot straps in real life, you can pull up your code with Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a front-end framework that helps stylize your code....

HTML UI

ES Lint: A spelling check for JavaScript

12 Feb 2026

Across Languages Each language in coding is fairly different to type out. For example, there are tons of classes to use in Java, even when you just want to print something. On the other hand, classes don’t even exist in...

JavaScript ESLint VSCode

Smart People ask SMART Questions

28 Jan 2026

What’s so SMART about questions? In your schools, a teacher might’ve said that there’s no such thing as a “dumb question.” While this is true, it might be hard to get meaningful results off of bad questions. Rather, it would...

Communication Learning Forums

Past, Present, and Future

27 Jan 2026

From the Past While in highschool, I never knew what I wanted to do when I grew up, so I simply tried a bit of everything. I took anatomy classes and music classes but nothing stuck to me except my...

Software Engineering Learning

Typing Up Typescript

22 Jan 2026

All the way back College has been my first experience with hard to read code. In high school, I took a basic programming class that taught basic Python and JavaScript, fooling me into thinking Computer Science would be a breeze....

TypeScript Learning