Personal & Academic Portfolio For the Better Boardway Kid
I was never into computers as a kid and didn't really learn about programming until college. I double majored in psychology and computer science at Hope. My big research project was the creation of an iOS application (Swift) to help teach budgeting skills to college-aged students with special needs. I also interned at an interactive design firm in Philadelphia that specializes in work with museums and other cultural organizations. (See the section about mobile apps for some info on one of the projects they started while I was there...)
I have spent the last two and a half years as a full-stack (mostly web) developer for Ottawa Area Intermediate School District. The first two years were spent on a web app with an ember frontend && .NET Core (2.1) backend. I recently started working on a new project- this one is a standalone Blazor Web Assembly application with a .NET Core (3.1 hopefully upgrading to 5.0 soon) backend.
See our repository here.
We spent the semester creating our own version of the wildly popular PacMan. One twist we introduced was the fact that all graphics in our game are based on memes from the last several years. We used Java and Swing to create a game where a sprite moves around a board trying to avoid running into walls and the devilish ghosts while collecting dots and fruit. We made this process flexible enough that any arrangement of the walls/ collectables would be viable for game play.