Portfolio:
James McGinty
Systems Engineer for Lockheed Martin based in Littleton, Colorado. An avid programmer, focusing primarily in Scripting languages. Always moving on the next hunch to improve a process I love!
Listed ahead are all my educational and passion projects.
Python/HTML: CI Capstone
Purpose of this Rowan University project was to create a website which demonstrated interacting with a combination of 3 APIs. Each group member was assigned an API to integrate into the project. The project utilized Python, MySQL, HTML, and CSS, paritcipants included James Mc Ginty (Spotify API), Rodman Bourne (Billboard 100), Tyler Stanley (Itunes).
This group project was conducted in Spring 2020.
Python/Rust: LFG Steam Bot
This passion project, a re-written version of the lfg-event-bot repository, was developed by James McGinty with the primary langauge being Python. This project is interacts with a variety of gaming APIs including Discord, SteamWorks, and AOE2.net. This project also includes a section of Rust under the disnake branch, this is one of two methods used to interact with the Steamworks API in this particular project.
This passion project started in Summer 2021 is still actively developed in use by 130+ users.
CSS: Subreddit Design
These passion projects encompass two forums on Reddit.com, r/RowanUniversity and r/WorldWar3. I overhauled each of the respective subreddits' CSS to enhance visuals and user interactions. These were each done on my spare time in order to learn CSS using the code made available by r/Paragon.
r/RowanUniversity was overhauled in Fall 2017 and r/WorldWar 3 in Fall 2018, both are actively developed with 10000+ subscribers.
C#/LUA: EAW Remastered
This passion project for the game Empire at War, was developed by James McGinty with the primary langauge being C mixing in LUA. C is primarily used to interact with existing game configs to implement new 3D assets, modify existing in-game units, and to overhaul the User Interface. LUA has been used for the addition of new quality of life scripts which are assigned to certain 3D assets. Using LUA I developed a script to allow for randomly spawning visual variations of 3D assets.
This passion project was conducted from Spring 2020-Summer 2022.
3D Modeling: Terrain Generation
This passion project for the game Minecraft, was created by James McGinty using a variety of tools such as World Machine, World Creator, and World Painter. The goal of this project was to model heightmaps in a simulated envrionment for borth real world and fantasy locations. Through import of said generated heightmaps into the game, additional 3D assets would then be applied to create a game world for user download.
This passion project was conducted from 2014-2017 boasting 10,800+ downloads and 119,500+ views.
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