This UML Editor was a project that I did for my Software Engineering course in college in the Spring of 2020. I worked on a team with 3 other students to develop a program that the client (our professor) wanted us to make. The project had 3 distinct sprints; during each of these sprints we were to try and achieve the functionality that the client wanted. Once every sprint we would have a meeting with the client showing them our progress and receiving feedback as to how they liked the program.

One of my proudest achievements with this project was making our GUI interface testable in a headless environment so we could use Git actions for continuous integration. I was able to make mock objects for all of the Java Swing components we used to allow our GUI code to be tested.

Bouncy Ball is one of my most involved projects I've ever worked on to date, and while some of my old coding practices from a few years ago were less than great, I am still extremely proud of this project.

Bouncy Ball started as one of my earliest Java projects after I had taken an into programming course in my sophmore year of high school. I wanted to test out my skills and see if I could replicate a seemingly simple game that I had played a lot around that time. The game I chose was of course Bouncy Ball from Raon (the link to their app on the Google Play Store can be found here).

So I began working on the game and realized that creating a completely working game from the ground up was not nearly as easy as I thought in my head. The very first versions of the game were horrible, but I was learning a lot very quickly. Each iteration took the elements I had learned from the last version and improved upon them to enhance the mechanics of the game. I was even able to make a custom level editor where users can design and test their own levels; this is something I am very proud of and took a lot of work to accomplish.

While the code has definitely aged and I would do a lot of things differently knowing what I know now, I still love this project and everything I learned from working on it. More details as to what changed in each version can be found on the Bouncy Ball Page where I also go into detail the things I was learning how to do.

TBD is a platformer I wrote for a seminar class in my senior year of highschool where we got to pick the project we wanted to do. By this point in high school, I had a pretty good grasp on Java and had already taken all of the computer science and programming related courses that Warwick offered. However, I didn't have too much experience with using outside libraries and figured that this would be a good class to do so. The project uses the Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) to make a basic 2D platformer with a few levels. The main libraries used are GLFW and OpenGL, something that ended up helping me in my computer graphics class in college. I had a smooth working camera and the movement felt really good, in my opinion. It was a fun project that looked nice and taught me how I can use other libraries.

The Connect 4 A.I. was a bonus project for my AP Computer Science class in high school. After the exam our teacher at the time gave us a list of things we could work on that he would grade and I chose the Connect 4 A.I. The goal was to make an A.I. that could beat everyone else's A.I. as well as the teacher's. After some research I discovered the minimax algorithm and began implementing it for this game. I was able to tie for first place (some other found the minimax algorithm as well). This was before I was in college where I got to take an actual artificial intelligence course, so I am sure my minimax algorithm has some problems, but I am really happy with how it turned out.