About me
Hi, my name is Pius and I am a computer science graduate from the University of Bath.
Born in Almada, Portugal. Living in Reading, UK. I am a talented multilingual individual with a keen interest in software, web and mobile development.
CompSci grad from the University of Bath
Hi, my name is Pius and I am a computer science graduate from the University of Bath.
Born in Almada, Portugal. Living in Reading, UK. I am a talented multilingual individual with a keen interest in software, web and mobile development.
Rush is an android game I developed and published during my summer holidays before starting University. It served as an introduction to using external APIs as well as a way to consolidate my knowledge of Java.
Languages/Libraries: Java, LibGDX
Software: Eclipse, GIMP
Date: Jul. 2014
Saturated Reverse Polish Notation (SRPN) calculator was my first programming assignment at university. My task entailed rewriting the application so that it matched the original functionality as closely as possible. SRPN was capable of performing all the basic arithmetic operations in decimal and octal as well as saturating the results.
Languages/Libraries: Java
Software: Eclipse
Date: Nov. 2014
Connect 4 was a programming assignment which required me to implement the popular Connect 4 board game, this included; creating a CLI that allowed a human to play against an intelligent computer opponent, the ability to save and restart games, a replay feature and a simple GUI.
Languages/Libraries: Java, Swing
Software: Eclipse
Date: Dec. 2014
Dungeon of Dooom was a networked multiplayer game I developed throughout my second semester. The task involved creating a client and server that followed a strict protocol. The objective of the game was to be the first player to collect a set amount of gold before escaping the dungeon. The game allowed players to attack each other as well as pickup items such as armour, weapons, health and lanterns to assist them in escaping the dungeon. As part of the assignment, I also developed a chat extension with emoticons and an AI bot capable of solving the dungeon with enhanced path finding.
Languages/Libraries: Java, Swing
Software: Eclipse, Sublime Text
Date: Apr. 2015
As part of my group project for my Software Engineering module I had to implement a Personal Information Manager. The project entailed following the software development lifecycle to produce a working solution as well as compiling a report documenting the entire process.
Languages/Libraries: Java, Swing
Software: Eclipse
Date: May. 2015
During my summer holidays, I took part in Netcraft’s Best of Britain Competition. The competition involved developing a solution that could improve or refine one of Netcraft’s existing services.
The project I worked on consisted of developing an android app, and the relevant server side backend, which would help users defend against voice phishing (vishing) attacks. The app allows potential victims to challenge callers to visit a URL in their web browser. When the caller visits the URL, the app delivers a notification to the victim that provides helpful information about the caller such as their IP address, location and organisation, helping them decide on the legitimacy of the call. The server also stores a collection of safe IP addresses, which allows the user to be notified when an IP is deemed to be from a trusted source.
Languages/Libraries: Java, PHP, MySQL
Software: Android Studio, Sublime Text, Vim, Git
Date: Sept. 2015
This coursework involved using OpenGL to load and manipulate 3D objects. Operations I implemented during this cousework included;
Languages/Libraries: C++, OpenGL
Software: Xcode
Date: Dec. 2015
As an introduction to functional programming in my second year, I had to implement a polynomial calculator in Lisp capable of performing basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction and multiplication on arbitrary polynomials.
Languages/Libraries: Common Lisp, Lisp-Unit
Software: Vim, Git, CLISP
Date: Dec. 2015
As an introduction to declarative programming in my second year, I had to implement a solution to the sum and product puzzle in Prolog.
Languages/Libraries: Prolog
Software: Vim, Git, SWI Prolog
Date: Mar. 2016
The aim of this project was to use low-level primitives for parallelism on a shared memory architecture to implement the relaxation technique for solving differential equations. This was achieved by having an array of values and repeatedly replacing a value with the average of its four neighbours, except boundary values which remain fixed, until all values settled down to a given precision. The solution was written in C using p_threads.
Languages/Libraries: C, p_threads
Software: Vim, Git, GCC, Valgrind
Date: Nov. 2017
The aim of this project was to use MPI for parallelism on a distributed memory architecture to implement the relaxation technique for solving differential equations. This was achieved by having an array of values and repeatedly replacing a value with the average of its four neighbours, except boundary values which remain fixed, until all values settled down to a given precision. The solution was written in C using MPI.
Languages/Libraries: C, MPI
Software: Vim, Git, MPICC,
Date: Jan. 2018
One of the units in my final year at university involved building and programming a LEGO robot capable of circumnavigating rooms by following walls and avoiding obstacles. The robot consisted of a rotating sonar head to allow distance measurements in all directions and two bump sensors placed at low ground for collision detection.
Languages/Libraries: Java, leJOS
Software: Vim, Git
Date: Mar. 2018
