kathy tran

In 7th grade, my teacher had us create a fake magazine on any topic we liked. My friends and I were really into art at the time and so we created Spark, an art critic magazine. We went the extra mile and decided to make a marketing campaign, which prompted me to create a website and social media accounts for the magazine. The website no longer exists, but here are some screenshots of the site along with the digital issue of our magazine.

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An informative website about the issue of colorism and its prominence within the cosmetic industry. A strong emphasis is placed on skin lightening products and the promotion of them to people of color. The phrase "Illusion of Inclusion" refers to the strategy of using light-skinned people of color in advertisements to lure in other people of color to try skin lightening products. This project was based on a research paper I wrote during my freshman year of college. The live site is here. The project files are here.

A browser-based bullet journal all on one webpage. The concept of this project is inspired by bullet journals, which are a combination between a diary, a planner, and a to-do list. Bullet journaling a method of journaling and note-taking that uses bullet points as the core structure. The main idea behind the bullet journal is that you jot down quick notes instead of writing long sentences. This project implements dynamic digital aspects that a physical bullet journal does not have, such as the display of the time and date, a moving carousel to display a user's photo log, and the immediate ability to change the color of certain elements on the page and the font style. Any changes made to the journal will be saved locally through cookies! I sometimes refer to this as my COVID project since I had to journal digitally during lockdown when I ran out of physical pages. The live site is here. The project files are here.

A JQuery game where the player is shopping for 3 meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner). The goal is to select as many items to satisfy one's meal requirements while staying within their budget! This was a pair programming project with Ryan Monaghan and looking back it could be coded more efficiently. The live site is here. The project files are here.

A website inspired by Net Art, the early art movement that uses the Internet as its primary material. This was created to help me learn more about the CSS Flexible Box Layout. The live site is here. The project files are here.

A Discord bot created for the Fordham Computer Science server. The bot is primarily used to manage members and make important announcements in the server! It currently only handles simple commands and is hosted on Replit.

A Discord bot created to explain the meaning behind tone tags/indicators on command. Tone tags help neurodivergent people and people who have trouble conveying the tone of a message over text! You can add these tags to the end of your sentences to indicate the mood or idea of it. The bot is hosted on Replit.

This program was used to test the accuracy of Barn Owl localization through learning using Turtlebot3/ROS (robot operating system). This project was based off of the experiments performed in Adaptation of Orienting Behavior: From the Barn Owl to a Robotic System by Rucci et al. (1999). For context, the barn owl is a nocturnal predator that hunts using its visual and auditory capabilities to orient itself towards potential prey. The authors developed a computer model that incorporated principle neural structures of a barn owl to produce orienting behavior through spatial localization and proposed that accuracy of the orienting behavior could be explained through learning. Instead of using auditory sensors, I used touch sensors and replicated the experiments in Gazebo with a Turtlebot. Please send me an email if you would like to view the report I wrote or the project files as they are not posted on Github.

A C++ program that performs a limited version of the Linux command "ls" that does "ls -R" by default. Arguments (flags and directories) are taken from the command line and parsed. The flags can include above directories, recognize links/shortcuts, exclude directory content, list the long format of a directory, and provide help to the user. The program was a pair programming project with Anthony Makaj and was created to learn more about the Linux file system interface. The repository is currently private, but if you would like to access the project files please feel free to send me an email.

A C++ program that simulates the Round Robin scheduling algorithm in which each process is assigned a fixed time slot in a cyclic way. This scheduling method is easy to implement and prevents starvation as all processes get fair share of CPU! The project files are here.

This program performs the Vigenère Cipher, a substitution cipher used for data encryption that avoids being susceptible to brute force and letter frequency analysis. The cipher was implemented to learn more about Cryptography and encryption methods. The project files are here.

A simple color based game developed with Java and the Swing GUI widget toolkit. Four colored blocks will appear on the screen. Three of the blocks will be the same color while the last block will be slightly off colored. The goal of the game is to see how many off colored blocks a player can identify! There is a normal mode, a frenzy mode (timed), as well as colorblind features to be more accessible! The project files are here.

A clone of the mobile payment service that allows users to transfer money to one another using a mobile-phone app. This implementation uses a GUI application intended for desktop users. Users can make transactions (request and pay) just as they do on the real Cash App application. This project uses a socket server and is intended to help me learn more about Client-Server architecture. The members in my group are Alvin Garcia and Angel Gil. The project files are here.