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Exploring Android Development and Robotics: My Journey with Temi Robots in College
This semester, I’m fully immersed in my courses, and I’m particularly excited about two of them. The required Android Development class is providing me with valuable insights into how a mobile OS handles user-built apps. But what makes this semester even more thrilling is the ‘Applied Research’ class, an invite-only course with a subject that…
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Building an arcade shooter game in Scratch
Many years ago, when I first began learning about programming, I built the Shark Byte minigame using the Scratch platform. With a little practical experience under my belt, I followed it up with a top-down shooter called Hittoriko Hunter. It’s a progressive shooter that uses character sprites from the original Tamagotchi games. Scratch was a…
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Building video games from Scratch
Some time around 2017, I grew intensely curious about programming. I jumped into Harvard University’s free CS50 course, a popular self-paced MOOC. It was my first foray into coding, and I learned lots of skills including: One of the course’s first tasks was to build a video game using Scratch. I succeeded in putting together…
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Siri shortcuts for location, distance, and bus schedules
As a student commuting to campus by bus, I wanted to get to my bus stop right on time. I didn’t want to wait in the cold because I was ten minutes early or one minute late. My course schedules were all over the place, and I was constantly trying to remember what time I…