Name:
MoMad - Mohamed Nuur
Location:
Seattle, WA - USA
Technical Skills:
Web development, Programming, Graphics and Database
Hobbies:
Sports, Computers, Programming, Gaming, TV, History, Electronics, Music, and Entertainment
My name is Mohamed Nuur or otherwise known as MoMad. I am 18
years old. I am senior student at Edmonds Wood-way High School.
This is my first year of submitting a Thinkquest entry although
I was around in the 2000 TQIC but not long enough to join a team.
I am highly productive in the areas of programming and development,
and hope to continue being productive by working on a video game
title soon after the competition is over. At first, I wanted to
be involved with Graphics Design and spent most of my high school
years in Arts and Graphics. I have submitted my work to many
local art shows and a local library. I have also submitted some
artwork to the Senator of Washington State for a school project,
but ever since I took my first programming class (VB), I have
realized that programming was my true path. I then took several
programming courses and have yet to take more. I will be
attending Edmonds Community College come this fall. I hope to major
in Computer Science and engineering. I am also thinking about
certificates on specific skills such as web development, graphics
design, programming, and game development.
Creating this website (C++ Made Easy) has been one of the most
challenging things I have done. It has been a long and
challenging process since the only means of communication was by email
for most of the team and with much less guidance than I anticipated,
it was a great learning experience. When we first started to work
on the site, we agreed that the site would be completely database
driven and a large portion of it automated. But the problem was
how and what algorithms (if any) were we to use and many non-technical
issues. I was completely new to using php, but within a week I was
creating pages that actually work. Now when I look back at what I did,
it is unimaginable that I did not know php that well, but for reasons
beyond my comprehension programming languages flow through me like air.
It was not long untill I mastered the language, and the manual is incredible.
I can say that there has not been a day where I didnt solve my problem
by going to the PHP Manual, except of course
Regular Expressions, they gave me the most pain since they where such
sneaky little critters.
We had several occasions where some of us got together and
talked about the progress of the site, but we never got together as a
team because of the major time differences. It was very hard to get
things done at the beginning, so I searched for some sort of a
collaboration tool and found a freeware program called: FTP Serv-U
which allows FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access on one's computer.
I installed it and one problem was solved. We pretty much worked
out most of our problems by researching them.
Writing tutorials or instructions on C++ was harder than anything I
have imagined, and above all very time consuming. We worked our
challenges by having each student take a section of the tutorial
to write about, and when someone has a problem completing his/her
section, we exchanged sections so that more could be done with
what little time we had. We hope to continue and expand this
project in the future and also add more categories to it.
So much thanks goes out to the people who made this possible, you know
who you are.