Category Archives: Academic Project

Academic Project, Personal Project

Salaah Times App

Dates

  • Initial development: August 2015 – December 2015
  • Occasionally enhanced: January 2016 – Present

Technology

OO Programming, MVVM, XAML (WPF), C# (.NET), XML

App

Link to App

Other Version(s)

Previous version: Salaah Times Windows Gadget

Info

All Muslim’s are obligated to offer 5 daily prayers (Salaah) during specific times of the day. This was originally developed as a Windows Sidebar Gadget to aid in meeting this obligation in 2011 (using JavaScript, XHTML & CSS), but it was rewritten as a XAML-based, C#, widget-like app, so I could learn more XAML (& LINQ). A companion converter app provides an XML prayer timetable for this app to visually display. It is currently being updated to use the MVVM design pattern.

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Academic Project, Dissertation, Portfolio Project

AI Agent for Ms Pac-Man

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Dates

Technology

OO Analysis/Design, OO Programming, Java, AI, Tree Search Algorithms, Rule-Based System, Fuzzy Logic, Visual Paradigm, Eclipse

Info

I developed an Artificial Intelligent (AI) application (or AI Agent) that played Ms Pac-Man for my Master’s dissertation, using an iterative development lifecycle so I could iteratively improve my AI Agent by using measurable metrics. The agent I developed was a Fuzzy Logic, Rule-Based System combined with multiple Tree Search Algorithms.

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Academic Project, Portfolio Project

Information Systems Management & Strategy Assignments

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Dates

Report

I conducted a detailed analysis & evaluation of the strategy for a fictional Halal restaurant chain (Spices of South East Asia), using PESTEL Framework & Five Forces Framework. I then assessed the applicability of Value Chain Analysis in regards to the possible contributions made by IS/IT for this restaurant chain.

Presentation

I explored business alignment using assumption that there is one organisation, when there are “…many interpretations of the same organization(s).” It was based on a research paper from Strategic Information Management, 3rd Ed.

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Academic Project, Portfolio Project

Register Allocator for Compiler

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Dates

Technology

OO Programming, Java, Assembly, Compiler/Interpreter, Notepad++, ANTLR

Info

I developed Top-Down & Bottom-Up Local Register Allocators, using the ANTLR compiler generation toolkit. A Register is a memory location on a Processor. A Register Allocator will transform an Assembly Program that has unique & unlimited virtual memory locations, to an Assembly Program that has a limited set of physical memory locations, which are reused as needed.

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Academic Project, Portfolio Project

Simple Parser & Interpreter

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Dates

Technology

OO Programming, Java, Assembly, Compiler/Interpreter, Notepad, ANTLR

Info

I created a simple Parser and Interpreter for an Assembly-like programming language, using the ANTLR compiler generation toolkit. I wrote Regular Expressions and parsing rules that defined the programming language; that is what the instructions were and how they could be used. I then developed the interpreter that would read and execute programs written in this programming language.

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Academic Project, Portfolio Project

Questionnaire App & Admin System

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Dates

Technology

OO Programming, Java, J2ME (Java for Mobiles), J2EE, Servlet, SQL, Client/Server, NetBeans, MySQL

Info

For this assignment, I developed a Java based Questionnaire System consisting of a J2ME mobile application for students to answer questions & a J2EE Servlet based admin website to administer the questions. The questions and answers are stored in a MySQL database. Both students & admin staff can view results as bar & pie charts.

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Academic Project, Portfolio Project

Bank Loan Artificial Neural Network

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Dates

Technology

Programming, Artificial Intelligence (AI), MATLAB (for AI App), C# (for data prep.), Microsoft Visual Studio

Info

I built, trained & tested an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in MATLAB, to find the optimal ANN architecture for processing Bank Loan applications. The Lecturer provided anonymous data collected from a real bank, consisting of over 400 bank loan applications, of which some were accepted and some rejected. To train the ANN, I developed 2 apps in C#, one to prepare data for input into the ANN & another to calculate the accuracy of the ANN’s results.

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Academic Project, Portfolio Project

Noughts & Crosses

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Dates

Technology

OO Programming, Java, RMI, Design Patterns, BlueJ

App

Link to App

Info

I built a Java based, 2-player, networked Noughts & Crosses game, using RMI for networked game play. Users could play against the computer (which made random moves) or against another player. For 2-player networked games, one player must set their game as the server (via the toolbar), so the other player could connect to it.

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