Erica Clark

Developed a webpage using Angular and HTML5 CanvasView to display a map of a robot, which can then be navigated through an obstacle course. The NodeJS server connects to the robot and the webpage to enable communication. The robot and the server send signals via Bluetooth, which can be translated and sent to the webpage via Socket.io. Likewise, the webpage can send signals to the server which will send commands to the robot.

The original project connected with a robot and was able to… Show more

Developed a webpage using Angular and HTML5 CanvasView to display a map of a robot, which can then be navigated through an obstacle course. The NodeJS server connects to the robot and the webpage to enable communication. The robot and the server send signals via Bluetooth, which can be translated and sent to the webpage via Socket.io. Likewise, the webpage can send signals to the server which will send commands to the robot.

The original project connected with a robot and was able to control it, however, in order to maintain appearances of some of functionality, the pixelated robot can move around and displays random values when scanning and discovers fake objects while moving. Show less

We won third place at ISU Spring 2015 Hackathon. I helped construct a Magic the Gathering app to manage the score and created a portion of the app dedicated to trading and determining the value of the cards. I was in charge of the trading part of the app and presenting to the judges.

An application to explore Swift and iOS and finish implementing the networking that my freshmen HackISU team had originally dreamed up with the first MTG application.

For our 309 semester long project, a group of use got together and created Study Buddy, an Android application that allows students to meet up to study and has some cool features to aid in studying such as a synchronous whiteboard, a group chat system, and synchronous tasks.

I dabbled with Android development during this project and specifically created a class to help simplify the use of HTTP protocol for the other members of the group and created many of the AsyncTasks that would make… Show more

For our 309 semester long project, a group of use got together and created Study Buddy, an Android application that allows students to meet up to study and has some cool features to aid in studying such as a synchronous whiteboard, a group chat system, and synchronous tasks.

I dabbled with Android development during this project and specifically created a class to help simplify the use of HTTP protocol for the other members of the group and created many of the AsyncTasks that would make requests from the server and the socket connections for sharing information. My main task was creating the RESTful API and the socket connections on the server side using Node.js, MongoDB, and Socket.io. I had never done anything with Node.js before, but this application allowedme to learn express and mongoose and many different frameworks all of through which I discovered my passion for Back-end Development.

Through this project, I learned a lot about working on a team and the importance of design before starting to implement features of the app. Some of the group members and I got together often to work on integrating specific parts together when we all had a specialized knowledge over one part of the app and we were able to help each other reach a solution much faster than having worked alone. Similarly, being in constant communication or having the option to always contact a group member made the app flow together smoothly and prevented a lot of errors from someone changing vital parts of the code.

We noticed afterwards that we could have made things more modular and more reusable had we spent more time on the design portion, however the design that we did spend time on really allowed us to work on different parts of the application at the same time and integrate them with little problem.

We were one of the top seven groups in the class ( out of 42) and we had the opportunity to demo our app to the entire class. Show less