Derek Read

Computer Science

Projects:

  • Mandarin Chinese Quiz
    • Used Java to create a quiz to help user learn Mandarin Chinese
    • Created 10 levels with increasing difficulty
    • Option to create a new level as users become more advanced
  • Major League Baseball Database
    • Used C++11 to create a database of Baseball Players dating back to 1985
    • Wrote code to implement a hash table and linked lists to create database of players
    • Wrote a query function to extract and display player data from the database
  • Movie Ranking Tree
    • Used C++11 to create a tree of movies based on a given ranking
    • Implemented a red/black tree
    • Created function to find the longest path on the tree
  • tsh Shell Scripting
    • Used C to implement a tiny shell
    • Created signal catchers to catch SIGCHILD, SIGINT, SIGSTP and SIGALRM signals
    • Implemented an eval function to read in and interpret the command line
  • Attack Lab
    • Used Assembly and C code to find security vulnerabilities in given program
    • Exploited these vulnerabilities to learn about buffer overflow
    • Gained an understanding in how to write more secure programs
    • Utilized features from the compiler and operating system to write a less vulnerable program
  • Data Science
    • Used python with panda, numpy, and scipy to analyze data sets
    • Cleaned and analyzed dataframes to get useful information from them
    • Utilized hypothesis testing, anova testing, and linear regression testing
  • Settlers of 3010
    • Created a board game similar to Settlers of Catan using c++ and the QTCreator environment
    • Allowed players to play against another human, the computer or simulate multiple games of computer vs. computer
    • Used a flywieght and singleton design pattern for the board of the game
    • Used a factory design pattern for the creation of the squares