Eric Lam
Projects (3)
Essays (7)
Resume
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03 Dec 2020
Fighting Games I’ve recently gotten into this fighting game called Tekken 7. It was initially released in 2015 so it’s been out for quite a while, but there’s still a very large fanbase. There’s lots of different playable characters to...
Software Engineering
Design Patterns
Final Project Idea
01 Nov 2020
Overview Although there’s a wide range of information on COVID-19 available on the internet, it can be hard to find exactly what you need. There’s currently no easy way to find the most up-to-date and accurate information about COVID-19 for...
Software Engineering
Meteor
Semantically Sound
08 Oct 2020
Language Barriers At home, my family speaks a few different languages. My parents were born in Vietnam but my grandparents are from China so we speak English, Vietnamese, and Chinese. Although I can understand Vietnamese and Chinese almost fluently,...
User Interface
Learning
HTML/CSS
Those Darn Red Lines
24 Sep 2020
Importance of Readable Code This past summer, I started working at Pacific Health Analytics Collaborative (PHAC), a research group that uses applied analytics to drive public health policy in Hawaii. Under this group, I’m currently assigned to a project...
Javascript
Learning
Asking Questions the Smart Way
10 Sep 2020
The Art of Asking Questions In primary school we’re always taught the mantra “There are no dumb questions.” No one should feel ashamed for asking a question that other people know the answer to - that’s the very...
Learning
Giving Scientists Superpowers
04 Sep 2020
How I got here Coming from a biochemistry background, I entered the software engineering world in a sort-of atypical kind of way. I started my college career studying the inner workings of cells. I learned the chemical and...
Software Engineering
Learning
Bioinformatics
Upping My Game with Javascript
02 Sep 2020
Athletic Software Engineering Before taking software engineering at UH Manoa, I had never worked with javascript. I knew it was used to implement interactivity on web pages, but that was as much as I knew about the language. After...
Javascript
Learning