Greetings!
My name is Vincent Tran and I am currently an undergraduate studying computer science at the University of Pittsburgh.
You can check out what projects I've been working on recently for personal or academic use. I will also be putting some code that I've written under my 1393 Designs label. If you're looking for support or the full Github repos for those projects, head on over to 1393 Designs.
I'm currently a 20 year old computer science student concentrating in software engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. I have a high interest in developing mobile applications on the Android operation system and iOS.
In May 2011, I started a software development team called 1393 Designs to create Android apps that would accomplish certain tasks that we felt would be beneficial to our workflow when using our Android smartphones. We plan on branching out to iOS, desktop applications, and web applets.
Besides programming, I like to build plastic Gundam models and noodle around on Photoshop. If any of that sounds interesting to you, here's the latest Gundam model I built, and created all of the assets for the Android application Textspansion.
1393 Designs Examples
TxT Encrypt - This Android app allows the user to easily send encrypted messages to their friends via email or the Kik API. The app takes a user input and quickly encrypts it using a few javax crypto libraries.
Click to view this Github Repository
Class Projects
Move-to-Front Encoding/Decoding - This console-based Java program will read in a user made file that has some sort of string and encode it using the Move-to-Front transform and then output a user-defined file with the encoded string.
Click to view this Github Repository
The Investigation - (Non-programming) This piece of Interactive Fiction was created as a final project for 'Narrative and Fiction' (ENGLIT 0399). The goal was to demonstrate our understanding interrelationships of narrative and technology. 'The Investigation' uses HTML and JavaScript to streamline the way a user interacts with interactive fiction such as in the video game Zork.
Click here to view 'The Investigation'
Writing Examples
Alan Turing's Imitation Game - In Turing's paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Turing poses the question, "Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?" For my Minds and Machines class (PHIL 0440), I wrote a paper briefly explaining Turing's Imitation Game, discussing one of the nine objections against his view on artificial intelligence, and countering his objection.
To download this as a PDF, click here.
Education
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
B.S. in Computer Science
Expected graduation date: December/2012
Programming Languages
Basic: C, Assembly (MIPS)
Advanced: Java, Android
Programming Skills
Object-Oriented Programming (CS401 Intermediate Java)
Basic Computer Organization (CS447 Comp. Org and Assembly Language Programming)
Data Structures (CS445 Data Structures / CS1501 Algorithm Implementation)
Graph Theory (CS1501 Algorithm Implementation)
Work Experience
1393 Designs, Bensalem, PA
April/2011 - Present
Android Developer
Co-created a development team to create software/hardware solutions
Co-wrote Android app 'Textspansion' / 1923 downloads on Android Market (download counts as of Oct 3, 2011)
Co-wrote Android app 'Punch Tracker' / 197 downloads on Android Market
Wrote Android app '"TxT Encrypt' / 566 downloads on Android Market
Sesame Place, Langhorne, PA
May/2008 - August/2009
Guest Relations Supervisor
Trained new employees on job responsibilities
Responsible for managing employees' breaks and
Responsible for helping irate guests by solving their problems within park policy
Mentions
Textspansion - Featured in Lifehacker as "The Best Text Expansion App for Android."
TxT Encrypt - Featured by the Kik staff as one of their favorite apps that utilizes the Kik API.
Organizations
Vietnamese Students Association, Pittburgh, PA
September/2010 - Present
Webmaster / Co-President
Organize events to celebrate Vietnamese culture
Update and maintain website to advertise club and event
Elected into office in May, 2011