My coding story.
I have always been interested in getting computers to do neat stuff.
I self-taught myself a lot of advanced MS Excel functionality, in the development of sophisticated personal projects, including a Latin rhyming dictionary.
My formal education in the field was minimal. That changed in January 2019, when I joined Code Nation, a bootcamp that will teach you employable IT skills, through projects that test your burgeoning understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I designed and built this site, for instance, but I’ve also used React.js, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB.
Some of my projects are linked below. I am particularly pleased with my chess game, and my contributions to group projects.
After graduating from Code Nation, I developed my Latin Excel file into a proper website, and got an apprenticeship with Information Catalyst.
For the first three months of my apprenticeship, I returned to Code Nation for further training, in which I started learning Java — Information Catalyst’s usual language — and MySql.
Since October 2019, however, I’ve been collaborating on a C# endeavour, using Windows Forms and the MS Office Interop API to process Word documents. I’m very much enjoying it!
Background photo: The river Dee in my hometown, Chester.
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Background photo: The river Dee in my hometown, Chester.
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Reminders app
made with Express.js and MySql with two other devs(no live demo as I’ve not deployed it)
(finished 2019 Oct 07)
Snake
made with Swing(no live demo, but you can download the .jar file from GitHub)
(finished 2019 Sep 11)
Calculator
made with Windows Forms(no live demo, but you can download the .exe file from GitHub)
(finished 2019 Nov 27)
App to transfer photos from a memory-card
(no live demo because it’s a console-app, but you can download the .exe file from GitHub)(finished 2020 May 23)
velut — a Latin rhyming dictionary.
If you know Latin and you’re interested in writing rhyming poetry or lyrics in that language (and who isn’t???), you might just be interested in a website I made in the summer of 2019.
Go to velut.co.uk, type in a Latin word, click “Search!”, and you’ll be returned rhymes (or other word lists), information about the lemma(ta) that the word is a form of, and links to other online dictionaries. You can also search for words made with only the letters you provide, like in a game of Scrabble or the TV show “Countdown” (but in Latin).
This is my first project using the MERN stack, or integrating with any sort of database. Details can be found on velut’s about page.
Background photo: Two fulmars on a cliff-face, because I use a photo of a fulmar for my logo.
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Background photo: Two fulmars on a cliff-face, because I use a photo of a fulmar for my logo.
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