Projects
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Get Organized
Download for WindowsDownload for MacDownload for PortableGet the Source Keep your Course schedule and grades organized with Get Organized, a simple and efficient academic planner. Specify Assignment details, keep track of up-and-coming and overdue schoolwork, monitor grades, and more. View your schedule as a collective list or in a familiar calendar format. Get …
Time Keeper
Does your employer ask you to keep a record of your own hours? Have you been using a less-than-optimal tool like Excel to keep track of those hours? Or, perhaps you have multiple charge numbers you work under each day and you’d like a convenient, concise way to keep track of hours worked and where. …
Geocentral Location; Addresses to Coordinates
Recently, I needed to plot numerous addresses on a map and, ultimately, find the geocentral location of all addresses. The geocentral location is the weighted center of all the addresses, which can be useful in helping determine numerous things, including the average distance between all addresses and some other location. The geocentral location is attained …
Ernie’s Adventure
What … Is This? If you’re like my brother and me, you love old-timey computer games almost more than the latest and greatest shoot-em-up. For as long as I can remember, my brother and I have loved playing classic puzzle games like King’s Quest, Commander Keen (yah, I realize that’s not really a puzzle game), …
FastSearch
FastSearch is a software application that specifically targets command-line platforms or older platforms (for instance, Windows XP) that have lousy search utilities. We’re all fed up with Windows Search. This software is an optimized command-line search tool written in Python; it allows you to search within the contents of a file or just file names …
Investment vs. Loan Payoff
The Thought A few weeks back, I was contemplating various ways Jess and I could possibly payoff school debt sooner rather than later. I had a spreadsheet detailing my current Loan Payment Plan, but I was more than willing to knock months off the bottom of that plan, if at all possible. So I mulled …
Loan Payment Plan (Spreadsheet)
Everybody has debt. And, I assume, we all want to pay it off. But how quickly should we pay it off? Did you know that on a $100,000 home mortgage at 12.0% interest, increasing your monthly payment by only $100 (from $1,100 to $1,200) will save you nearly $50,000 of interest paid over …
The Question Project
Music, as defined by Webster, is “the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.” This has come to be the generally accepted definition of music. However, Webster also defines music as, “An agreeable sound.” Sound, by its second …
College Projects
Below are a select few of the labs, projects, and reports that I completed over my four years at Cedarville University. I have posted the ones I thought may be most versatile and useful to visitors, so, for your sake and mine, this is not an exhaustive list of all projects completed during my college …
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