CS108 Student Work Portfolio

The samples below show some of the projects from prior semesters of the course.

"I like to think of vector graphic designing as 'writing a picture,' because you write a code which will be interpreted (or compiled) that will graphically represent the description.

One thing I had to be very careful about when I was writing this code was that the order I was drawing was crucial. What is drawn first goes on the "back", everything else piles up "in front". I first had to understand what were the different parts of Kenny, and then the order they were represented in.

The bottom part of the jacket and the head were the most difficult parts: the jacket is a polygon and to give the impression of a curve, I made the bottom to be a lot of small segments, with minor changing of inclination. The head, except the external hood and the actual face, is made by ovals, not circles. PythonÕs graphic package gives you an oval class, but it is not that good. I used multiple layers of circles (set of 4) to give this reg/irregular oval shape.

Even if Python is not know as the best graphic language, you can do pretty sweet things with it, it only takes time and concentration."

Application, screenshots, and narrative courtesy Brent Sugay, CS108, Fall 2007.

Ad Builder is an application that will create an ad to rent an apartment. The program will format what the ad by interfacing with the components and displaying the ad in the text area to the right.

The Location Button will open up a child window that lists another of neighborhoods for the user to choose from. The user can select one of these or insert their own choice. The Other Rooms and Amenities buttons will open up similar windows that display checkbox options such as Living Room, Dining Room for Other Rooms and T-Accessible and Pets Okay for Amenities. one of these or insert their own choice.

Once the user has made their selections, the selections immediately appear in the formatted ad. Bedrooms and Bathrooms are drop down menus that display the number of bedrooms or bathrooms.

Stock Manager is an application that will track selected stocks to help make investment decisions. Each record includes importation financial information for each stock. This program works by pulling information about the stocks from the internet and putting the information in a database using SQL. The database is stored in an access file and retrieved by the program. The functionalities include searching, updating, adding, removing, and saving the stocks. The search functionality will output the company with the given stock symbol from the database. The update button will retrieve current financial information from the internet. The user can add and remove stocks from the list by inputting the ticker symbol in the add and remove windows. The save functionality will copy the stocks and place them in a text file for future reference.

The program starts by initializing values and clearing the existing database. When pressed the "Deal Two" button shuffles the deck, deals two cards and also updates the card count. Users can click this button as many times as they want to simulate faster card dealing. The user then input's their guess and presses the "Guess" button which verifies if the input is correct and calculates the success rate of the user. The count, the guess and the success rate are then inputted into the database and then displayed in the multicolumn list. The "Clear button" clears the multi column list, resets the counts, and clears the database.