College Education
I am obtaining my degree in Computer Science, B.S., at Penn State Behrend in Erie, Pennsylvania. I am currently a Senior and will be graduating in the summer of 2025. I’ve taken a lot away from my studies, which I’ll remark on in the following sections.
CMPSC 475 — Website Design
To supplement my studies in web design, I took a mobile app development course in which we worked in groups of four to develop a mobile app that we decided the premise for. Our group developed the fundamentals of an app we titled “Taskeria,” an app designed for families to help encourage their young children to do chores. The app would allow parents to keep track of chores as they’re being logged, and when chores are completed, kids can be rewarded with user-set goals and prizes through the app.
This course taught me how mobile app development differs from web development, though there are many similarities. We worked with React Native and testing tools like Expo which gave me the fundamentals that I need to create more mobile apps in the future.
SWENG 465 — Web Services
In this course, we learned about what services power websites and how to structure a website from a website’s front end, through its service layer, reaching the back end. This was another project-based class similar to my App Development class, but for this class, I worked on my own. For my project, I made a mock-up website for my game which included user account registration & forums as well as profile views and checking leaderboards. This taught me a lot about using databases and constructing server-driven websites, and led to a lot of my fascination and enthusiasm towards web design that I now put towards lots of projects today.