Scaleborne
This is a videogame I and two others made for the SkillsUSA Game Design competition. I did most of the C# programming for
this game, as well as coming up with most of the ideas as to what we would be making. This project taught me a lot more about
working in a group than typical group assignments or projects did because there wasn't as clear and direct of a goal. This gave me
a large amount experience in problem solving and teamwork. I also learned much more about Unity than the Unity Learn course
taught me, and about the dangers of overscoping.
UNO
This is an online game of UNO against 3 computer players. I wrote the JavaScript for the workings of the game, the HTML
and CSS for the surface level stuff, and even created the images for the cards. This project, being one of the first personal
projects I worked on, really opened my eyes to how big even simple projects such as this could get.
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Chatroom
This is a simple group chat that anyone can make a statement in. It uses PHP to read and write a file for collecting
the posts and adding new ones. For me it was a clear example of Occam's razor, since simple solutions worked very well for
getting the website to work as intended as well as fixing unexpected bugs and exploits. An additional thing I learned from it was
that continuing a completed project doesn't always mean fixing issues as they crop up, but can also include implementing new
knowledge to replace workaround solutions. The Chatroom is currently available for anyone to make an account and post in it.
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Simon Says
This is a memory and reaction based game that is coded in Java and presented to the user in a GUI. It uses Timers to
keep track of when the sequence is being shown and when it is time for the player to repeat it as well as how much time the
player has left to do so. Empty JPanels on each side are used to communicate this information to the player. One of the main
things I learned from working on this project was how to make a GUI look good on a level that my classwork didn't cover, such as
dummy panels to control the size of things in BorderLayouts. The other was the importance of user testing, since it wasn't until
I let someone else play the game that I noticed a glaring issue with the way I communicated the important info to the player: it
was too out of the way to be noticed quickly.
Final Fate Calculator
This is a simple website I programmed that allows the user to calculate the minimum grade they need to get on the final
exam of a given class to get a desired letter grade in that class. The main thing I learned from working on this project was the
basics of TypeScript, which, being so similar to JavaScript, mostly boiled down to actually installing it. In my effort to get
TypeScript on my computer, I learned a bit about how to operate Node.js, npm, Visual Studio (Not VS code), and how to set my
exectution policy on the computer with PowerShell.
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This Website
I programmed this website myself, for the purpose of delivering my portfolio in addition to being an element of it. While
working on it, I learned how to really use CSS. I could style a website before, but it was here where I learned how make a visually
appealing website with it. I also discovered a practical reason to use Media queries that check the width of the page. More so,
everything I learned in classes and beyond them about web design and development came together to create this website, which even
includes some Adobe Illustrator to create the background. It and the portfolio it presents are the culmination of my high school
career up to this point, and I only plan to go further from here.
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