Projects

My First Attempt at a Stock Scanner

I always knew there were API’s out there would allow you to get real-time and historical data from the stock market. I had some interest in the stock market, or at least I was investing at the time. It wasn’t until a programmer by the name of Michael Reeves posted a video of him using the Alpaca API to let a fish choose and invest in stocks. With a different goal in mind the scanner application utilizes the Polygon.io API and Flask in order to create a site that to access stocks picked out based our own algorithms. Although I will not show the algorithms we use to select our stocks, but this will show you the journey it took to go from programmatic to development, to a production environment.

Google Dinosaur Game – NEAT Implementation

When the internet goes out and there is nothing else to do, chrome conveniently has an infinite scrolling game to play. The simple concept of jumping is to avoid obstacles. Growing up, there would be competitions between friends who can get the highest score. Well now let’s make something that no one can beat. Let’s use NEAT to teach the dinosaur how to become unstoppable.

Learning Node.js by creating a Discord Bot

As Discord became more popular and took over most of the demand for VoIP through gaming. Discord opened up the ability to create bots using their API. Through this you could play and queue music, control chat, members, roles, and so much more without having to manually do it yourself. This projects hopefully will have more added to it slowly over time.

Cheating in Flappy Bird using Python

Everyone has fond memories of this game. Whether it was videos of those breaking their phones over losing, or those who spent the time to legitimately get to scores over 1,000. Today we look how we programmed the game and implement a neural network to get the high scores for us.

(Huge thanks to Tech with Tim really dialing in and teaching those of how to implement the NEAT into their python code)