Current Projects

• This site - uploading old blogs and writing new ones.
• Javascript toys for this site: a klotski puzzle, a funky clock and a hangman game.
• E2 yearnodes: 2013 2007 1995 1987 1978 1967 1954 1945 1936 1924 1919 1908
• An android app that is, essentially, a glorified todo sequence run out of a database.
• A thematic autobiography, religion is the next step. I will perform a live reading thereof, eventually.

Completed Projects:

• Presentation about Encrypted Databases
• Presentation about how to use git
• Mini Lexer (Java)
• Write a multithreaded application: Handshake server (with classmates)

Stalled Projects:

• Deitel's simple compiler (Python)
• Enliterate a Bst (Python)
• Naive Mips register allocator

Fantasy Projects:

• MIT's simpleDB (java)
• Tcp/IP sim via MIPS perhaps
• Write a baysean http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html spam filter or game AI
• Write a toy operating system: OSP/2, unsw kernel utilities
• An improvement to my file renamer, via plugin pushdown-automaton grammers
• Learn and build a nontrivial app in Clojure, Erlang, Forth, and either {Oberon, D, Rust, or Go}
• Pre-20th Century E2 yearnodes: 1896 1886 1877 1865 1855 1846 1831

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Learn a variety of programming paradigms:

• Write an application in an imperative language: C++, Oberon'7, D/Go
• Write an application in an object-oriented language: Java, Smalltalk
• Write an application in a dynamic language: Python, Ruby
• Write an application involving a query language: SQL, Tutorial D
• Write an application in a functional language: C_Lisp Clojure, Sml, Haskell
• Write a program in assembly language: Pep8, MIPS, Dcpu10
• Write an application in a prototype-based language: Javascript, Io
• Write an application in a logic programming language: Prolog
• Write an application in a language supporting the Actor model: Erlang, Scala
• Write an application in a concatenative language: Forth
• Write an application with aspect-oriented components: AspectJ
• Write an application in a design-by-contract language: Eiffel

Enhance my understanding of the building blocks that we use as developers:

• Write a simple compiler: Basic
• Write a simple database manager: SimpleDB or MicroBase
• Write a multithreaded application: Handshake server
• Write a networking client: TCP
• Write a device driver: tape drive?
• Write a baysean spam filter or game AI
• Write an application that provides a plugin model
• Write a png renderer
• Write a toy operating system: OSP/2, unsw kernel utilities

Experience the ins and outs of programming for different platforms:

• Write a nontrivial desktop app
• Write a nontrivial web app
• Write a nontrivial mobile app
• Write a nontrivial game
• Write a nontrivial embedded app

Learn by teaching others:

• Present a lightning talk: git/hub tutorial
• Present at a local user group: encrypted databases
• Publish a tutorial
• Publish a constructive code review of an open source project

Adapted from Jason Rudolph's programming achievements