Skills

Programming Languages

• JavaScript
• Favourite JavaScript libraries - Three, WebMIDI, Async, Lodash
• Favourite Node modules - Socket.IO, Express, Handlebars, Fastify, Child_Process, Passport, Node-Cache
• Python
• Favourite Python libraries - Graphviz, Matplotlib, NumPy, Mido, NLTK, Lilypond
• Java
• Processing = Java dialect for creative computing
• Android Java
• C#
• PHP
• COBOL
• SAS

Other Languages

• SQL
• T-SQL
• GLSL = Open GL Shading Language
• HTML
• CSS

Platforms, Frameworks, Stacks

• AWS = Amazon Web Services, DynamoDB
• Firebase, Firestore
• Node, JavaScript, MongoDB
• React, JSX, React-Router, Redux
• Flask, Python, Jinja2, SQLAlchemy
• Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, C#, Razor, Entity Framework, SQL Server
• AMPPS = WAMP = Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP
• Java Swing, JDBC
• Android
• IBM Mainframe, JCL etc.

Databases

• Microsoft SQL Server
• MongoDB
• Firestore
• AWS DynamoDB
• IBM DB2
• MySQL
• SQLite
• Microsoft Access

Software Engineering Tools

• Git, GitLab, GitHub
• JSON
• ElasticSearch
• RabbitMQ
• Grunt
• Jest, Istanbul, Mocha
• Pytest
• Microsoft VSCode
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Eclipse
• Android Studio
• Microsoft SSMS, SSIS
• Jira

Software Engineering Techniques

• OOP = Object-Oriented Programming
• Mechanisms, Principles, Design Patterns
• Functional Programming
• REST
• AJAX, SPA
• Flux
• MVC
• Microservices
• OAuth 2.0
• Agile Iterative
• Evolutionary Prototyping
• Waterfall
• UML
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Project Management
• Requirements Engineering
• Test Planning
• TDD

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Techniques

• Graph Search
• DFS, BFS, IDS, A*
• Constraint Programming - CSP/COP = Constraint Satisfaction/Optimisation Problem solving
• Algorithmic music
• Scheduling tasks - e.g. team rotas
• NLP = Natural Language Processing
• Information Extraction, Text Analysis tasks
• Supervised Learning - Artificial Neural Networks - Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Backpropagation
• Classification tasks - e.g. handwriting recognition
• Unsupervised Learning - Artificial Neural Networks - Competitive Learning
• Clustering tasks
• Reinforcement Learning - Policy Learning
• Can only really claim a bit of basic maze solving fun here

Graphics, Animation Techniques

• Open GL shader GPU programming
• Three.js
• Image processing
• Spatial convolution
• Colour effects
• Shading/Lighting/Illumination/Reflection modelling
• Phong shading
• Phong, Blinn-Phong illumination
• Cook-Torrance illumination
• Physically based rendering
• Texture mapping
• Bump mapping
• Displacement mapping
• Hierarchical skeletal animation
• Facial animation
• Physics simulation

Management Information Techniques

• Data analysis
• ETL processes = Extract, Transform, Load
• Data Warehouses
• Data Marts