Jaimes Mexia-Santiago

Student

I am studying for a B.S. in Computer Science in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii. I expect to graduate in Spring, 2028.


Interests: Computer Coding, Content Creation Communinity, Web Development, Video Gaming, Spending time with family


Projects

HiLo Card Game 2024

I developed a game based on the Hi-Low playing card game for a software development project at Leeward Community College in 2024.

Game Coding Concepts Java

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Joint Warfighter Software Development 2023

Exercises and tasks directly informing software development for joint military operations

Time Management Software Development

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Official Travel Cost Estimate 2021

Base line excel spreadsheet used for official foreign travel plans for future use into software

Travel Excel Expense Management

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Essays

Final Project Proposal

24 Mar 2026

Aligning Objectives With Safety: SRCH Navigator Proposal Modern computer science and engineering education continually changes and evolves, especially in areas such as socially responsible computing. However, while information on these topics continues to grow and develop, it is often fragmented,...

Software Engineering Nextjs

Chaotic Structure or Structured Chaos: A look into UI Frameworks

24 Feb 2026

This is another language. Right? When I heard about Bootstrap 5 during a lecture, I was amazed: I thought, “Hey, I can pull from something that’s already been created? That’ll speed things up!” Then, I decided to open the documentation...

Engineering

Rules for Rules Sake

10 Feb 2026

Because I said so For those with a military background, standards are everything - Standards dicatate specific and measureable rules that could range from what temperature you are allowed to wear certain articles of clothing, to how many inches above...

Engineering

No such thing as "dumb" questions... except, there is

27 Jan 2026

I have to be smart about how to ask a question? As a student, a large majority of my coding experience comes from structured college coursework, along with some learning materials I’ve dabbled in from online knowledge bases, such as...

Questions Answers StackOverflow

Same, same... but different

20 Jan 2026

Starting from zero… except, not entirely. From the perspective of a student whose entry-level coding courses make up the bulk of my experience, hearing that we must use an entirely new language (which is based on another language we didn’t...

Engineering

Learning to look past what the computer wants me to see

20 Jan 2026

Discovering that there’s more than meets the eye I discovered my interest in software engineering, and all that it entails, by accident; What I wanted to do was play a videogame in a way that was more fun to me...

Engineering