Computer Science is a programming course taught by Ms. Taricco that focuses on Java with instruction on HTML and CSS as well. We learn programming concepts and apply them in labs and class projects, including the development of this website. Scroll down to see some of the assignments that I have completed so far.
Apps for Good is an international initiative that inspires students to create apps to help their communities. Throughout D term, I worked with Vatsal and Sohini to make an app to help with time management in long-term projects.
In the MAMS STEM/STW course, students often struggle to effectively manage their time for long term projects. Many researchers and other students also struggle with deadlines and effective time management and many solutions are ineffective for at least one type of work style.
Our design is a personalized calendar that breaks down large assignments/projects into work hours, depending on your availability. This is meant to help those who have trouble with time management, so they can delegate blocks of time for different tasks. This way, you are given realistic deadlines to get tasks done in a timely manner, based on how your motivation/focus may vary over time.
Our app can be useful for researchers, school/college students, and adults in the workplace, although it was originally designed with MAMS students in mind.
The MVP was an app that plans project steps and the time distributions per day based on the user’s work style as determined by the s-curve for project management associated with that learning style and productivity on a project. Our app takes a project that is inputted by the user and distributes the estimated length of the project over the amount of days until the due date varying the amount of time based on how far along the user is in the project along an s-curve.
Creating this app with my team was a really fun and valuble experience for me. I enjoyed making something that wasn't just a cool design or random algorithm, but something that I could see myself and others using.
Line Art was a lab that asked us to apply what we had just learned about graphics in Java to create a curved shape using only straight lines. For bonus points, we were asked to create the same design in the center of the first one at half the size of the original.
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This program was also part of our graphics unit. We had to create a Pac-Man out of a yellow arc and add in three evenly spaced white circles. Pac-Man and the white circles all had to be centered vertically. Read the code for this program below!
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