Projects

Current Projects

• Currently, outside of work, I'm working through Project Euler when I have spare time.

Notable Past Projects

• Smart Fridge
  • We created an Android App and a Ruby on Rails Web App for a semester long project.
  • The intial purpose of the App was to help a user keep a record of their food and give the user suggested recipes, from an online database, based on what food they had.
  • The end result was an app that lets you keep track of your food and personal recipes, but you have to manually search the online database.
  • This project included many of the steps of traditional software engineering. These included:
    • Creating a proposal for our project.
    • Writing Requirements and Specification documents.
    • Creating Design and Planning documents based on our requirements and specifications.
    • Doing a design review for another team.
    • Writing a full suite of unit and functional tests for the applications.
    • We developed the code and tests during three iteration cycles. The documents were updated during each cycle.
    • We were beta testers for another group and our code was beta tested.
  • For CS 638: Software Engineering


• Moshball
  • We made a 3D graphics game using OpenGL and GLSL shaders written in C++.
  • The point of the game is to hit all of the targets so that they are in a bumped state. The balls stop being in their bumped state after their timer runs out.
  • More details can be found here
  • For CS 559: Computer Graphics.


• Mini Language Compiler
  • We built a compiler for a language called Mini. The compiler is written in Java.
  • The pieces required for the compiler included the following:
    • Symbol Table
    • Scanner
    • Parser
    • Name Analyzer
    • Type Checker
    • Code Generator
  • The result is a simple compiler that takes something written in the Mini language and compiles it into MIPS assembly code.
  • For CS 536: Introduction to Programming Languages and Compilers.


• Minirel Relational Database Management System
  • We built several of the lower-level pieces of a working single user Database Management System in C++.
  • These smaller pieces included implementing the folloing:
    • Buffer Manager
    • Heap File Manager
    • Database Catalogs
    • Several Different Relational Operators
    • A Web Interface, allowed you to add, remove, and modify things in our database.
  • The result was a functioning miniature DBMS.
  • For CS 564: Database Management Systems.


• CPU Scheduling Algorithms Simulator
  • I created a program that simulated the use of two CPU scheduling algorithms in C.
  • The algorithms used were Shortest Completion Time First and Exponential Queues.
  • This was run on trace files obtained from the Computer Science lab computers.
  • For CS 537: Introduction to Operating Systems.


• Angry Badgers
  • I created a game where you fire a badger at gophers in an attempt to hit them.
  • All of the modules in the game were made using digital circuit design, in Altera Quartis II, and were tested on an Altera FPGA board.
  • For CS 352: Digital Systems Fundamentals.