albertchanged.me

Full Stack Web Developer

Overview

You are on it right now!

This is a culmination of nearly everything I have learned over the past 2 years of development. Though the YouTube Topics ♫ app is the most useful, this is by far my favorite project.

There were many steps in building this, so I will just discuss the three most difficult ones.

I designed the homepage artwork SVG in Adobe Illustrator. Then I used CSS animations to create the 'CODE' and music notes visuals. I also learned a new way to keep an object in place as it rotates, so once I applied that to the head, I synchronized the head bob with the other animations.

Next, I made CSS hover transitions on the skill boxes follow the direction of their page placement (corner-wise and edge-wise). Try them out when you get to the Skills section!

Lastly, I edited border radii of the objects on the About section, divided the Portfolio section into two rows, and assigned both of them CSS animations. I then utilized jQuery and ES6 JavaScript to watch scroll events, which trigger the animations when the user scrolls the respective objects into view.

Check out the GitHub repo!

Technologies Used

FRONT END:  Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, Sass/Scss
BACK END:    ES6 JavaScript, jQuery, PHP

React Web App / Tool Developer

Overview

Say goodbye to unofficial lyric videos and bad audio on YouTube!

This YouTube-esque web application populates search results directly from YouTube’s ‘Topic’ channels to provide the highest quality music to the user.

With the help of Stephen Grider's Udemy course, I designed components / states in ES6 to create the site's backbone, and bundled the application with Babel and Webpack.

Then I took off running, querying the search results to return only videos from 'Topic' channels and using jQuery to select/deselect videos as the user chooses. I also learned to organize my CSS with Sass, which greatly improved the source code's readability.

Check out the GitHub repo!

Technologies Used

FRONT END:  React JS, Sass/Scss, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3
BACK END:    ES6 JavaScript, jQuery, Webpack, YouTube Data API

Animated Website Developer

Overview

Besides tackling cool projects to deepen my skill set and show what I could do as YOUR next software developer, I also love DJing! And what better way to combine the two than to create a simple yet effective landing page for my DJ persona, FLMWRK?

I first created a minimalistic footer. Then I converted my self-designed logo into SVGs in Adobe Illustrator, and used CSS animations to trace, fill, and fade them in following a specific order.

Lastly, I needed to emphasize the 'FLM' (flame) in 'FLMWRK', so I set animation delays on certain aspects of my logo in order to emulate a cool "flaming" illusion.

Check out the Github repo!

Technologies Used

FRONT END:     HTML5, CSS3
MISC. TOOLS:   SVG, Adobe Illustrator CS5

JavaScript Web Game Developer

Overview

Objective: Evade Bug swarms to collect Hearts from a Princess at the end of the board.

Alright, I cannot take ALL the credit for this Frogger-esque game!

HUGE thank you to the Udacity Front End Web Developer Nanodegree course for providing the artwork, game engine, and starting code for the Boy and Bug sprites.

Having that foundation allowed me to expand on each aspect of the game using ES6 JavaScript. I first edited the game engine to extend the gameboard. I also figured out how to vary the Bugs' frequency and speed, and recalibrated both their and the Boy's impact radii.

Then I inserted a Princess who moves to a random block after each interaction with the Boy, which causes the Hearts, Score, and amount of Bugs to update. This was the most difficult algorithm to devise because it required multiple JavaScript prototypes to listen to each other.

Finally, I used HTML Local Storage to cache the player's highest score so he/she can try to beat it in the future!

***More game instructions are on the right side of its page.***

Check out the Github repo!

Technologies Used

FRONT END:  HTML5, CSS3
BACK END:    ES6 JavaScript

Online Storefront Developer

Overview

This was a group project for my Web Based Computing course in college. Two teammates and I created an online storefront for gold watches. I was the lead developer.

First, I combined 3 Bootstrap templates to connect the parallax structure, product view modals, and team member section together.

I gave each product view modal a title->image->table->form layout. As my teammates filled product view modals with watch information and images, I searched for ways to spice up the interface. I found a ticking Canvas clock online and superimposed it onto the home page.

A teammate and I implemented a dynamic star-rating and feedback system within HTML forms in the product view modals. I edited the PHP code given by my professor to display this feedback on an internal page. Lastly, we reworked the CSS to establish the site's overall feel.

Technologies Used

FRONT END:  HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap
BACK END:    ES6 JavaScript, PHP, MySQL

Android Application Developer

Overview

Created with 3 others for a hackathon (Hack Merced 2017). I was responsible for most of the application's UI and some Android development.

We wanted to create a platform that allowed people to watch and leave feedback on user-uploaded weightlifting (with a greater emphasis on powerlifting) videos, and upload their own.

We modularized our application using the Model-View-Controller pattern.

Two teammates did the heavy lifting (haha) with the backend data retrieval in the Controller, using Firebase to store JSON for each user input and incorporating it into the Android application. I assembled the main View that displayed the title, video, and rating system. Then I worked with another teammate to implement a tabbed interface, through which a user could explore lifts depending on muscle group.

By combining the View and Controller, the Model was able to display the correct videos in each tab and update entries based on user input.

We did not win but we were proud of our application -- and that is what matters most!

Check out the GitHub repo!

Technologies Used

BACK END:     Java, Android, JSON
DEV. TOOLS:   Android Studio, Firebase