Paul Smith

AWD 1111: Database-Driven Web Development

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Use CSS and Bootstrap to design responsive web sites.
• Use Node.js, Express.js, and modern Javascript syntax to build web applications.
• Develop web forms that post data to the server and retrieve results.
• Use a Database Management System to persist, manipulate, and query user data.
• Develop web APIs and use JavaScript AJAX calls to update web pages dynamically.
• Use React.js to create dynamic web pages.

AWD 1112: Mobile App Development

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Develop Android Apps that respond to events in Android Studio.
• Use TextView, EditText, Button, ImageView, Spinner, and RecyclerView widgets to build Android Apps.
• Develop Android Apps that have multiple screens and pass data between those screens using Intents.
• Develop Android Apps that use themes, styles, dimens.xml, colors.xml, strings.xml to change the appearance of widgets and adjust to sizes to different screen dimensions.
• Develop Android Apps that include a database component and demonstrate OOP principles.
• Develop Android Apps that communicate with REST APIs.

AWD 1000: Web Development Technologies

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Write standards compliant HTML5 and CSS3 to structure and style a web page.
• Use CSS3 to position elements on a web page using responsive web design techniques including Bootstrap.
• Create websites that include images, lists, tables, video, audio, icons, and animations.
• Develop web forms that use JavaScript to respond to events.
• Solve problems using fundamental programming concepts including variables, branching, and loops.
• Manipulate the DOM using JavaScript and jQuery.

The Firmacore Incursion

Cooperative online multiplayer game. Uses Node.js and Socket.io for the server. And Unity for the client. (Global Game Jam 2021)

Bouncy Runner

Touch gesture-based endless runner for Android. Integrates with some Facebook APIs. (Solo Project)

Costume Crash

Local 2-4 player brawler game. Supports Xbox 360 controllers for input. (STL Scatterjam 2017)

Gravity Wells

3D Starfox-esque shoot-em-up, where you drive a rover around the surface of a planet. Uses custom shaders to implement a low-res/dithered look. Supports Xbox 360 controller for input. (CGA Jam 2017)

Pete's Discount Market

Run a potion shop in a 3D, VR-esque environment. Simplified art style for a comical appeal. (Butterscotch ShenaniJam 2017)

Final Transmission

2D space fighter shoot-em-up, where you must navigate through waves of asteroids, before making your final transmission seconds before your ships is destroyed. (Global Game Jam 2018)

How do we kill it now?

Fight waves of slime monsters of escalating difficulty using only your sword. Features a custom slime shader that I wrote for the game jam. (Global Game Jam 2015)

Out of Season

Cute isomorphic survival game. Avoid roaming enemies, which navigate via an occupancy-based heatmap approach. (STL Scatterjam 2016)

Hairspray Hannah

Dark atmospheric survival game. Heavy focus on shadows and lighting to build the environment. (Butterscotch ShenaniJam 2018)

Ritual of the End

Small 2D platformer with 2 boss fights. Lead a team of teenagers that had never made a game before or worked Unity. (Global Game Jam 2016)

Shadowrun Combat Tracker & Dice Roller

A small web app I built to help to me host a weekly Shadowrun 5ed game. Data is persisted locally with the localStorage APIs to facilitate easy offline usage. (Solo Project)

Spring the Fence

2D runner game with a pogo-stick. Navigate increasing difficult obstacles to reach the end of the level. Eat cupcakes to unlock special powers. (STL Scatter Jam 2014)

Sky Scraper

Swing around the level with your dual grappling guns, and reach the door to the next level. (STL Scatter Jam 2015)

Sky Walker

Navigate a procedurally generated obstacle course using dual grappling guns, and reach the portal at the end of the level. (Solo Project)

Rubberband

Fling rubberbands at plastic army men. Knock over enough army men within the time limit to unlock the next level. (Group Project)

The Title

Augmented reality experiment inspired by Pokemon Go. (Global Game Jam 2017)

Home Is Where The Friends Are

Native Android game involving building sentences from a limited vocabulary. (Global Game Jam 2019)

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IT Instructor

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Computer Science - Bachelor of Science

Computer Science - Associate