Portfolio

Michael has also worked on several small projects which aren't solely, or even necessarily primarily, code. A lot of the projects listed here are because he did the documentation for a programming assignment (MP) in ECE 291.

ECE 291 MPs (chronologically)

• Paint Application - a Fall 1999 MP in which we concentrated on interrupt and event handling, standard graphics algorithms. Michael designed and documented this MP, and coded it as a group effort with the assistance of TAs, especially Josh Scheid and Karan Mehra
• Networked Quake2d - a Spring 2000 MP in which we concentrated on tiled graphics handling, asynchronous user input, and networking. Michael wrote most of the documentation and design, with implementation (and the remaining design and documentation) by Pete Johnson.
• Outline Indenter - a Summer 2000 MP in which we concentrated on control flow and user input/output. Michael designed, documented, and coded this entire MP.
• Text-Mode Mines - a Summer 2000 MP in which we concentrated on interrupt handling and data structures. Michael designed and documented this entire MP, and coded it with Karan Mehra's assistance.
• High Quality Graphics - a Fall 2000 MP in which we concentrated on antialiasing techniques in fast assembly. Michael wrote nearly all of the documentation, and also designed (with reference) and implemented the antialiased line routine. Pete Johnson did the remaining design and implementation, which was more of a herculean task than originally intended.
• Typing Tutor - a Spring 2001 MP in which we concentrated on text-mode-video and keyboard interrupt handling. Sadly a major misdesign on the timer handling (how to handle the 0.2 of the 18.2 ticks per second) is Michael's fault. Michael designed, wrote the documentation, and did a slight majority of the coding; the rest was coded by Ajay Ladsaria.
• Financial Calculations - a Fall 2001 MP in which we concentrated on numerical methods on a simple data structure. Michael designed, wrote the documentation, and wrote a significant part of the code; the rest was coded by Justin Quek.
• Rational RPN Calculator - a Summer 2002 MP in which we concentrated on simple RPN math on a secondary stack filled with Rational (numerator and denominator) numbers. Michael designed, wrote, and documented this MP.
• 291Hack and Graphical 291Hack - a pair of Summer 2002 MPs in which we concentrated on implementing complicated algorithms that resulted in a fun text-mode video, and then fully graphical, version of a "game" related to the cult-classic NetHack. In the first we implemented shadow maps to determine line-of-sight visibility, while in the second we moved to Protected Mode and implemented variable-width font drawing. This was Michael and Pete Johnson's final ECE291 team effort, with Pete generously donating his efforts to design our version of shadow maps, then implement 291Hack, and port the identical functionality to Protected Mode for Graphical 291Hack. Michael participated in design, wrote documentation, and coded the remainder of the Graphical extension.