sideProjectSummary: A repository from cdpalmer

Ruby

Loan payoff calculator

Ruby script that will take in a hash of the details to all your loans, e.g.

{
  title: "Sallie Mae",
  interest_rate: 0.065,
  original_balance: 10000,
  current_balance: 10000,
  min_payment: 200
},
{
  ...
}

With that information, you can run the script with one input (how much you budget towards debt) and it will spit out how many months it will take to pay off all of your debt using the avalanche method (however, could be tweaked easily to use the snowball method). These methods are just what debts get paid first with any spare money you have each month.

Boggle Solver

Given a board and a Dictionary, it leverages a Trie to discover all words that are on the boggle board. Used as follows:

master ✔ $ ruby boggle_the_ripper.rb
Starting Boggle Solver Engine!
 This is our working board:
    X X B X X
    X X A G X
    X E R X Y
    X X X X D
    X X X C O


*   Found word! (bag)
*   Found word! (bare)
*   Found word! (a)
*   Found word! (are)
*   Found word! (rag)
*   Found word! (gab)
*   Found word! (grab)
*   Found word! (cod)
*   Found word! (cody)
*   Found word! (doc)


 These are all found words:
["bag", "bare", "a", "are", "rag", "gab", "grab", "cod", "cody", "doc"]

Java

Blackjack

Command line game where you could establish your budget and play blackjack. It would accept all actions (Hit, Double Down, Split, Stand), and you could play until you ran out of money or the shoe is finished. It would also keep a running count for card counting and would quiz you what the running count was. I have no idea where this code is anymore. Lost in the ether.

Trash can Mint

Loving nickname for a desktop Java app that would do a really crappy version of what Mint currently does. You would copy and paste your checking account transactions (nope, didn't even use CSV... Hey! This was the first 4 months of my career!) where the app would parse all descriptions, deductions, and credits and give you a summary of your monthly expenditures. It also had an similar feature of the debt payoff calculator. Code? Also lost in the ether.

Swift

Lumber Blackjack

Designed, coded, and deployed an iOS game that trains you to learn to play Basic Strategy. Instead of the flash-card style that most apps use, you play a game that incrementally teaches you different parts of Blackjack Basic Strategy.

Rails

Kangaroo

Ever go on movie marathons? Or movie hop into another movie after the first one was over? Well I made an app that pulled in all movie showtimes and theaters in a 15 mile radius of a zip code you entered and would display to you every combination of movie marathons you could see at a given theater.

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