Noah Everly

Tetris in TI-BASIC

The first real, large project I had with coding was more of an extra-curricular. I had become so enamored with coding that I searched for ways to do it while in my other classes. My programming teacher had told the class about the kinds of things he had coded in his calculator in high school.

At first I just built programs to automate annoying formulas or stuff that would make my friends laugh. This quickly turned into me wanting to make something huge, and I set my eyes on tetris (in the day, it was default on pretty much every phone, and I liked the demo a lot).

If you've never used a Basic language, let me save you the trouble: it's garbage. An non-object oriented language is bad enough, but one where composition is also nearly impossible means it's about as easy as coding in Vim on a key with half the keys missing and a different layout. Despite that, I had made a successful model of tetris with everything short of collision detection.....

Then the batteries fell out.



Always back up your code.

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Hardware Experience

When I first moved to Virginia, I forewent furniture in exchange for PC parts (I still don't regret it) and built my first PC. Since then, I believe I've built six or seven of all shapes and sizes for anyone that asks. Unfortunately, whenever you become the family member that "built his own computer," you become the family IT man indefinitely. So I've had my fair share of software and hardware troubleshooting.

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Server DevOps & Hosting

My friends and I have a twice-annual pasttime of playing a game called Tekkit together. Originally, since I had the strongest computer, it made sense for me to host. Non-dedicated servers have come a LONG way since then, but P2P tunneling with Hamachi made it manageable. Deploying and redeploying and reteaching everyone to install become a hastle, so around senior year I started renting server spaces on DigitalOcean and using a VM of Ubuntu to do the hosting for me, and aggragate the mod build at a static URL. If nothing else, my patience for coaching 5+ people to manually update their clients earned this a spot on my portfolio.

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3D Modeling & Manufacturing

In college, at the same time I was using SolidWorks in my mechanical engineering classes, I was also learning Maya and working as a student helper in a workshop for additive and subtractive manufacturing. I learned a lot of firmware, industrial integration of manufacturing technology with their given software, and meeting (often unrealistic) design guidelines from the students I helped.

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LeetCode

Because I lack traditional training, I like to practice my Big(O) skills through LeetCode. Sometimes I upload these to Github, but most of the time I just get in the zone and knock them out. This is where I get most of my algorithm practice and expose myself to others' coding styles. Check out my profile even though it's kind of new!

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Work, Work, Work

Recently, most of my efforts have been in making my resume and portfolio more desirable. Pursuing certifications, fixing up this website, and working on pet projects to (when they're at a proper stage of development) show here too. My end goal is to break into the programming field professionally, and that's where the REAL fun begins.

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