Hi! My name is Ben!

I am a recent University of Lincoln Masters of Computer Science distinction class graduate. I spend my free time programming, bettering my skills for use in my career. I also love to do other things like baking and this website will tell (and show) you all about it! The projects I have undertaken, my extra curricular activities and about me as a person!

These are my most recent projects

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Covid-19/Airport Data Website

This project was part of the Team Software Engineering module which was taken in the second year of my course. The aim of this project was to see if there was A direct relationship between COVID-19 infection cases and the number of incoming flights.

Unfortunately, the website is no longer publicly pubished.

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Third Year Project: Medication Reminder Application

This project is based around the idea that people are likely to forget to take their medications, with the aim of creating a mobile application to remind these people to take their medications and storing information about when/if they have taken them.

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Fourth Year Project: British Sign Language (BSL) Translator

This project was developed to enable people who use BSL to be able to communicate to those who do not. A partially working solution, able to classify some of the letters in fingerspelling. This project proves that it is possible to classify the images and therefore with a larger dataset and more time to finetune, it should be possible to create a network of models able to fully classify the sign language.

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Experience in

- C++

- C#

- Google Cloud

- HTML & CSS

- Matlab

- Python

- SQL / MySQL

Currently Learning

- Java

- JavaScript

- Kotlin

Overall Grades:

BSc in Computer Science: 1st
MComp in Computer Science: Distinction

Grades by module:

Year-1

- Algorithms And Complexity: 1st

- Computer Architectures: 1st

- Maths for Computing: 1st

- Object-Oriented Programming: 1st

- Operating Systems: 1st

- Problem Solving: 2:1

- Programming Fundamentals: 1st

Year-2

- Artificial Intelligence: 2:1

- Advanced Programming: 1st

- Cloud Computing: 2:1

- Network Fundamentals: 1st

- Scaleable Database Systems: 2:2

- Team Software Engineering: 2:1

- User Experience Design: 2:1

Year-3

- Big Data: 1st

- Logic And Computation: 1st

- Machine Learning: 1st

- Parallel Programming: 1st

- Project: 1st

- Virtual And Augmented Reality: 1st

Year-4

- Advanced Programming (MSc): Distinction

- Computer Vision (MSc): Merit

- Cross-Platform Development (M): Merit

- Image Processing (M): Distinction

- MComp Research Project: Distinction

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MTA Software Development Fundamentals

This certification from Microsoft is evidence of my core software development skills, using C#.

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MTA Introduction To Programming Using Python

This certification from Microsoft is evidence of my programming skills, using python.

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Student First Aid

This certification from Singleton is evidence of my ability to perform first aid.

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Lincoln Award

This certification from The University of Lincoln is evidence of my development in a professional capacity..

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Command Line Based Recipe App

I am currently developing a command line recipe book application, which allows users to view, add and edit their recipes.

Wordle Solver Application

In early 2022, the game wordle became highly popular. I made this application to use a basic algorithm that 'solves' the game.

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This Website

I created this website through the use of tutorials, learning HTML, CSS and bootstrap along the way!

Baking

My main hobby is to bake. I love baking a variety of things and learning to bake different items. I have been baking since I was 11 years old, baking cakes and scones. Now I bake a wider variety of things, like brownies, pastries and on the odd occasion fudge.

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Gaming

Another one of my hobbies is to play computer games. I love to play games, whether it be on one of my consoles or on my PC. I find that it de-stresses me after a long days work and allows me to relax for the evening or weekend.