Below are a few of the key projects that I have worked on to help make life simpler and more efficient. Select a project to see more details about the program, or to be redirected to that project’s homepage.
Projects
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Branches
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Get Organized
Keep your Course schedule and grades organized with Get Organized, a simple and efficient academic planner. Specify Assignment details, keep track of up-and-coming and overdue schoolwork, monitor grades, and more. View your schedule as a collective list or in a familiar calendar format. Get Organized is a free, digital planner that eliminates the hassle and …
Time Keeper
Does your employer ask you to keep a record of your own hours? Have you been using a less-than-optimal tool like Excel to keep track of those hours? Or, perhaps you have multiple charge numbers you work under each day and you’d like a convenient, concise way to keep track of hours worked and where. …
FastSearch
FastSearch is a software application that specifically targets command-line platforms or older platforms (for instance, Windows XP) that have lousy search utilities. We’re all fed up with Windows Search. This software is an optimized command-line search tool written in Python; it allows you to search within the contents of a file or just file names …
Loan Payment Plan (Spreadsheet)
Everybody has debt. And, I assume, we all want to pay it off. But how quickly should we pay it off? Did you know that on a $100,000 home mortgage at 12.0% interest, increasing your monthly payment by only $100 (from $1,100 to $1,200) will save you nearly $50,000 of interest paid over …
Ernie’s Adventure
What … Is This? If you’re like my brother and me, you love old-timey computer games almost more than the latest and greatest shoot-em-up. For as long as I can remember, my brother and I have loved playing classic puzzle games like King’s Quest, Commander Keen (yah, I realize that’s not really a puzzle game), …
The maRla Project
The maRla Project is a cross-platform statistics IDE for students to help them work through and solve complicated statistical calculations. It strives to aid the student in the entire homework cycle, from defining the problem to the final submittable document. maRla uses R statistical package as well as LaTeX to run. maRla will run on Windows, Mac, …
Rush Hour
This applet requires Java 1.5 or later and a compatible browser (such as Firefox) Want to create your own levels? Download Rush Hour to your computer to play anytime and for the ability to save games! Don’t see anything? You may need to install the latest version of Java. Get it here.
The Question Project
Music, as defined by Webster, is “the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.” This has come to be the generally accepted definition of music. However, Webster also defines music as, “An agreeable sound.” Sound, by its second …
Old College Projects
Below are a select few of the labs, projects, and reports that I completed over my four years at Cedarville University. I have posted the ones I thought may be most versatile and useful to visitors, so, for your sake and mine, this is not an exhaustive list of all projects completed during my college …