Pat McCormick.
Junior Software Developer

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As a new grad from the NSCC IT Campus, I am looking to start my career as a Junior Software Developer. I've always been interested in the process of how an app starts as an idea and becomes a full fledged product which is what led me to starting this journey.

I love all things tech and have a passion for tinkering. I believe the best learning tool is a good mentor and want to hit the ground running with a great team. I am currently looking for a full-time position and would love to chat.

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Projects

"Floppy Fish"

This was my first delve into making a game with C# using WPF Forms. After a few hours of tinkering and going back through some previous exercises on using key-presses for events, I was able to get a basic fish and 2 pipes. Some time later after obsessing a bit I finished the "score counter", speed variances, pseudo randomization of the pipe patterns for a different game each time, background music using a .wav file and some trickery to make it do a continous side scroll. I'm pretty happy with the result.

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Floppy Fish

"Text-Based Adventure Game"

This is a little passion project of mine I have made and re-made too many times to count.

It first began as a long wall of if-else statements, and as I learned more it was refactored and refactored again. I learn best by putting things into practice and this started as a way to drive things into muscle memory, and ended up as a fun little project. I have made it in Python, C#, and Java but have decided to flesh it out to a point where I'm satisfied in Java exclusively.
I have a lot of ideas for this project, pulling from MUDs, old school RPGs, and mostly my own imagination. Ultimately I want this to be an example of proper OOP, data structures, and design patterns. But right now it's just something I can work on when I have some free time.

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Text-Based Adventure Game

"Maze Solver"

This was a fun C++ project I did which simply takes in a maze text file and solves it, spitting out the solved file.

I didn't think of myself as ever being able to grasp C++ to the point of doing something like this, but at the end I may or may not have mumbled '..that wasn't so bad'.
It was our first time using a stack Data Structure in C++ and I must admit it makes me enjoy Java more.

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Maze Solver

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