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Hello! Welcome to my ePortfolio!

My name is Tia Felice and this ePortfolio contains all of the elements of my SNHU Final Project Capstone. These elements highlight some of the fundamentals of my Computer Science education at Southern New Hampshire University over the past 2 1/2 years.

Professional Self-Assessment

• Throughout the degree program, I took away a lot of important skills that have helped me develop my strengths in computer science. These artifacts are from different courses I took throughout the program and with the enhancements, shows how far I’ve come since I first started coding. I believe that each course helped me learn more about tech and information security, which happens to be the field I’m in now. I believe that having this degree and taking all of the information I learned helped me become employable with the company I work for now, and will help me become more employable in the future, as I plan to take what I’ve learned and apply it into a master’s degree program to further educate myself and feed my passion for tech.

• When working on projects, I took an entire course on collaborating in a team environment where we used Bitbucket in order to use git and push commits to this GitHub similar environment. We learned in this course and others about communicating cybersecurity needs to stakeholders and created a portfolio of a business’ cybersecurity needs in an information security course.

• Artifact one is a software engineering focus that showcases my ability to take a graphic design/visualization and alter its features including color, texture, and orientation in order to enhance the project as a whole. This also shows my experience in Eclipse IDE.

• Artifact two is data structures and algorithms project that I created from scratch (so no previous enhancements/originals) What I created is an array that stores variables and outputs them in a “story” that includes the input variables. This project fits into my ePortfolio by demonstrating my ability to use data structures and algorithms, an important part of programming.

• The final artifact is a database that describes myself and my family members and information about them. This was created to demonstrate my ability to create databases, add, subtract, and modify different aspects of the database.

Code Review

Code Review
This video was created to review my original projects, what they contained, why I chose them to enhance, and what enhancements I planned to make on them.

Software Engineering Category

Software Engineering Enhancement

• The artifact that I enhanced in the software engineering category is a pyramid that was designed and created for my Computer Graphics and Visualization course. I decided to include this artifact because this was a project I was extremely proud of. This course was challenging for me and I had to work much harder in this course than in all my other courses. I felt like this showcased how hard I’m willing to work even if it is something I’m not necessarily good at, not shy away from difficult projects, and how I can continue to improve.
• This artifact was improved by changing the texture and rotation of the pyramid. I did meet the course objectives that I originally planned to meet with this enhancement. The biggest challenge I faced while enhancing this project was having to relearn the computer graphics and how it works and the different variables like float, buffer, shader, etc. I had to relearn a little bit in order to try and pick up back from where I started and create something better. I would not have had to do that if I was in continuous practice with this kind of programing.

Data Structures and Algorithms Category

Data Structures Artifact

• This artifact asks for specific inputs and then stores them in array and recalls it in a "story" that uses the different variables as fun additives into the story. I created this because my computer that had my original data structures and algorithms example had died and this was a simple way to incorporate something that hits all the marks and shows that I understand one of the fundamentals of data structures and algorithms, arrays.
• The challenge that I faced with this artifact was having to build it from scratch and not enhance from a previous assignment so I had to be creative and come up with something that showcased my understanding and mastering of the course. I also had to cross-reference to remember what I named the variables in order to recall them later in the end of the code.

Databases Category

Databases Enhancement

• This database is a SQL example because unfortunately I wasn’t able to retrieve the old Codio class assignments I had done a year before. It is a database with my and my family’s basic information like our names, where we are from, and our ages. I created this at the beginning of this class to showcase the “database” enhancement part of my portfolio.

• I created this because I wanted to showcase my favorite class. Learning the basics of SQL was the first time I could see myself using it in “real life” at a job. It got me excited about programming and retrieving databases. I think I formatted this very well and organized it well. I improved this artifact by adding extended family and number of children for all our family members.

• I believe that I met the course objectives with this database enhancement. I found this one to be the easiest one to make enhancements on because I recalled SQL much easier than the software engineering project and the data structures and algorithms portion of the portfolio.

• I learned that I make a lot of silly mistakes and I get “rusty” easily. I do need to put a lot more regular practice into SQL, Java, Python, and other programming languages that I learned while I was at SNHU. It was difficult for me to keep up with me taking 3 classes every 8 weeks and I think a lot of the information that I learned, I dumped a few weeks later and it never really went into my long term memory. The challenge I faced here was learning the basic commands and remembering how to recall a specific data base like “SELECT * FROM ___”.