EndPointDB

Problem: Design a Final Project for Backend Specialization

Solution: EndPointDB is a back-end specialization final forum project deployed to Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is a robust forum application featuring a secure, scalable front-end, REST API, back-end, and database. The project showcases advanced front-end and back-end development. The features include user registration, login, logout, authenticated account routes, posts, replies, likes, JWT authentication, token validation, and password management via an auth controller. Furthermore, EndPointDB includes authorization mechanisms, database seeding, and session management with cookies and local storage. Deployed using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, it leverages IAM for user permissions, EC2 with SSH access, RDS for relational database services, and Elastic Beanstalk extensions for streamlined deployments. The system is optimized with environment variables, load balancers, and HTTPS for secure, scalable performance. This led to the purchase of my first official domain, (Not Actual) Https://GuruCoding.com. I have added the front-end, which is depicted here, and fully integrates API endpoints for a complete full-stack application.

Precision Weather Vision

Problem: Design a Final Project for Fundamentals

Solution: Precision Weather Vision features a current forecast dashboard displaying real-time metrics like temperature ranges, precipitation, humidity, wind speed, rain/snow chances, and a categorized Air Quality Index (AQI) from 'Good' to 'Hazardous,' fetched via integration with live weather APIs for accurate, location-based data without signups. Precision Weather Vision's 3-day forecast page provides detailed, location-based weather data, including max/min/average temperatures, humidity, wind speed/direction, precipitation, and chances of rain/snow, with hourly breakdowns (4am, 8am, 12pm, 3pm, 7pm, 10pm) for each day, collapsible detailed views, and weather condition images, all presented in a clean, user-friendly interface powered by live weather API integration. Its aesthetic design emphasizes a clean, intuitive interface with a prominent logo, structured tables for easy scanning, and a minimalist layout that prioritizes actionable insights over clutter.

FlowState Social Media Poster

Problem: How to stay focused and boost productivity while updating social media every few hours

Solution: Social Media Automation Poster is a Python-based tool designed to automate posting on the X platform, enabling users to maintain a consistent social media presence without manual intervention. The project allows users to schedule posts or post immediately using a JSON-based content database organized by categories (e.g., cooking, travel, photography, gardening, music). This automation helps busy individuals stay in a focused 'flow state' by reducing the need for manual social media management. The repository includes the core automation script (autopost.py) and a sample content.json file. This project was created with ai assistance but debugging and api understandings were necessary.

The Memory Game

Problem: How to design a robust flip the two matching tiles memory game with multiple features to strengthen my early programming skills.

Solution: The Memory Game has various different features such as a play button, how to play menu, reset game button, return to title screen button, board size adjustment feature, audio cues, UI/UX animations, game timer, background animations, changing scenes, winning score results, and rotating static images in Processing.js. It was a very complex game to design for a beginner but ultimately strengthened my understanding of creating multi-feature programs with dynamic scene changes and other awesome behaviors.

Hoppy Beaver Extreme

Problem: How to design a multi-level and challenging side scroller game with buttons, how to play menu, audio cues, and play button.

Solution: Hoppy Beaver Extreme is one of the first open source projects that I contributed to by adding additional features. It is a challenging multi-level and feature-rich game that helped establish my early coding skills. Hoppy Beaver Extreme uses Processing.js library and Khan Academy assets to create an immersive but basic video game. This project integrates many learnings as you can see with the live environment, changing level scenes, audio cues, mid-level completion notification, losing screen, winning screen, menu buttons, multi-directional movement of the character with arrow keys, an enemy ai NPC that reduces score, and red sticks that reduce score. The goal of the game is to collect all the brown sticks while avoiding the Flying Dutchman and the red sticks.

Timeless Designs

Problem: How to Build Competitive Websites

Solution: Timeless Designs is a premium landing page crafted with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, showcasing a sleek, high-quality aesthetic. Its meticulously designed features highlight exceptional attention to detail and modern, user-focused functionality. This is dedicated to Nick's two beloved pups, SugeCooks.

Numerical Sequence Memorization Game

Problem: How to Build Web App Games

Solution: A web-based memory game that displays a sequence of random digits on the screen for the player to memorize. After the sequence is hidden, the player enters the recalled number via an input field. The game tracks correct and incorrect answers, allowing players to continue generating and attempting new sequences.

Mars Rover Lander

Problem: How to Build Games: Designing and Deploying a Physics Sim Game

Solution: MarsRoverLander is a 3D Python-Pygame game where players navigate a rover through an asteroid field to land safely on a Martian pad, managing fuel, velocity, and collisions with a first-person perspective and immersive audio-visual effects. It features physics-based gameplay, a detailed HUD, and fallback rendering for missing assets, licensed under MIT and open for contributions. This project was completed in 8 hours with ai assistance but debugging and previous game development experience were necessary.

Mars TerraFormer

Problem: How to Build Games: Designing and Deploying a 3D Game

Solution: What started out as a 3d side scroller game then became what is known as Mars Terraformer. The goal of the game is to collect all the resources, while jumping from platform to platform, and deliver them to the malfunctioning drone as fast as possible. Players compete to record the fastest times. This was created using HTML, CSS, and Three.js Javascript 3D library with ai assistance. The project was completed in 3 hours.