10/16/03

UNDER CONSTRUCTION !!!

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School Projects

The Matrix System: This program simulates a system which holds user accounts and charges users to use the main functionality of the program (Like an ATM machine). After logging on the system, you can choose to create an image which will result in options you select prior to viewing the image.

NOTE:    This program was created as a sole purpose to practice rapid prototyping in my Human Factors course. Therefore, it was quickly made (within a weeks time) in Visual Basic (VB), which I had never programmed in before. I quickly found VB to be extremely easy to work with, but I still didn't know how to optimize code in VB. My lack of programming practice in VB lead to unclean coding, but It worked for the week I had to learn and use it in. I only mention this so the user of this program takes it into consideration when judging it.

* This file is not posted due to it's size. I have a free account with tripod and limited space. I will send copies of the source code and the executable to qualified companies upon e-mail request.

          File: TMS.zip

          Size: 0k

          Platform: Windows 95 or higher

Student Scheduler Project: This program was competed for my Software Engineering class. It's purpose is to store student worker information in which at some point would be used to generate a student worker schedule given certain constraints.

NOTE:    This program was designed in QT designer (which generated code for the interface) by a member in my team. Due to horrible scheduling by the professor and procrastination of many team members, I gathered all work that had already been done by other members (which consisted ONLY of the GUI shell to my surprise) and single handedly coded the population functions of the widgets (a user interface object that can process user input and draw graphics). This ended up being 800+ lines of code that had to be stripped of bugs and all work together which I had to finish in a 5 day time frame (I actually got it done on the third night). So if there is any project that shows how I code under pressure on a strict time line, this would be it. Also, the user of this program needs to keep in mind that the algorithm group never did finish the code that would generate a user schedule. This is the only incomplete functionality of the project.

* I recently realized I took this file down and stored it onto my laptop which is currently in Australia. I will have this file up by the end of the month when I once again have access to my laptop.

          File: StudentScheduler.zip

          Size: 0k

          Platform: Linux

Home Projects

Space Ace: This is my first attempt at a game. It is coded in Visual C++ .NET using WIN32 API. This game was made after I read the book "Sam's teach yourself game programming in 24 hours" book using the game engine provided by the author. This game is an arcade-style 2D space shooter in which your only purpose is to kill as many ships as you can without dying. The game ends when you die three times.

NOTE: I was disappointed that the book didn't fully explain how to use resources (such as WAV and BMP files) to work with the game. I seemed to have problems with Visual C++ auto-generating unwanted code that screwed up my resource IDs. Because of this, I never got the game to work with sound effects. The background music does work correctly however. I never got a response from the author and have sworn off any other books he writes. I quickly abandoned any further improvement on the game (such as AI and graphical upgrades) and am now trying to work with DirectX and a different game engine.

          Files: Game: SpaceAce.zip 

          Size: 94kb

          File: Source Code: SpaceAceSource.zip

          Size: 275 kb

          Platform: Windows 95 or higher