Paul's Programming Projects

Project Showcase for Paul Russell

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Welcome to My Website

Here I will be linking to some of my programming experience and occasionally write up informational posts.

About me:

I am an Alumni of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am interested in everything having to do with computers and this website will be used to document my learning journey.

Projects:

Here I will link to personal projects. There’s always more on the way! Please keep in mind, some may be a work in progress as I do this in my free time.

Reversing:

• UWP System Settings: Dev Log
  • Timeframe: May/June 2023
  • Goal: Modify Windows’s Settings UI
  • Provided an introduction to a variety of Reverse Engineering and CyberSecurity tools
  • UWP apps means reading lots of windows documentation

Web Scraping:

• Due Date Scraper: Repo
  • Timeframe: Winter Break 2022
  • Scrapes important dates off a variety of websites to put them all in one place
  • Scraping done using Python’s Beautiful Soup and Requests libraries
  • SQLite database of completed tasks
  • Tkinter UI

App Dev:

• Score Manager
  • Timeframe: Summer 2022
  • An easy way to keep track of board/card game scores
  • Built in Flutter/Dart
  • Soon to be on the google play store
    • Apple app store support if it becomes popular enough

WebDev:

• Image Filter Creator: Try It!, Dev Log
  • Timeframe: Summer 2021
  • Mess around with changing the RGB values of every pixel based on a user input formula for each color channel. Gives very interesting visual effects.
  • Written in pure HTML, JS, CSS, and WebGL
    • (I should have used libraries to make my life easier, but I was too stubborn at the time)

Blender:

• Ambigram Creator:
  • **Deprecated** With the introduction of geometry nodes, someone made it better
  • Timeframe: Summer 2021
  • A python addon to create simple 3D ambigrams
  • Primarily to learn how to interact with the Blender API and keep me interested while doing so

Godot (A few simple game ideas in the works):

• Destructible Tower Defense Dev Log:
  • A tower defense game with a destructible environment

School (code only available upon employer request):

• Operating Systems
  • Language: C++
  • Custom Shell
  • Task Scheduler
  • Bounded Buffers
  • File System (iNodes and Blocks)
  • Memory Allocator
• Computer Systems Principles
  • Language: C
  • Santorini
    • Based on the Santorini board game
    • Turn based CLI gameplay
  • Clue
    • Simple text adventure game
    • Answer randomizes each time
  • Word Freak
    • Analyzed a given text file
    • Used an array of trees to keep track of an alphabetical list of all words used and their counts
  • Presidential Debate
    • A lesson in multithreading
    • Number of “callers” and a number of “Phone operators” (threads)
    • Properly use threads while avoiding any race conditions
  • MathBot
• Programming Methodology
  • Language: JavaScript
  • Image Processing
    • Edit an image by changing all of its pixel values
    • Slow for large images. Just for teaching purposes.
  • Oracle
    • Test program accuracy
  • JSON Builders
  • Data Streams
  • State Machines
• Data Structures
  • Language: Java
  • FizzBuzz Wiki
  • Guess My Array/List
  • Post/Infix equation parser and evaluator
  • HashTable
  • Fractals (recursion)
  • Merge Sort / Queues
  • List Interface using Recursion
  • Mathematical Sets (Linked Lists)
  • Binary Search and Scapegoat Trees
  • Heap
• Computer Networks
  • Language: Python
  • UDP and TCP implementations of RDTP