About Me

I'm a programmer and amateur photographer from Surrey, who mainly works in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Python and C#. I aim to start developing Android apps; am yet to venture into the worlds of Java and C++.

I am always on the lookout for new projects, so please leave any ideas here. I am open to exploration of new languages, and can't wait to hear your suggestions! Really, I mean it: I'm a bit stuck for ideas at the moment.

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Implementing Material Design for the Web on My New Demo Website

My most recent project has been creating a new Material Design 2.0 demo website, used for hosting any small coding projects I may have (e.g. for Computer Science lessons). The idea came about last Thursday, after I was given a Computer Science assignment to replicate the Luhn Algorithm. I was already keen to experiment with Material Design 2.0 (what with it being released only a few months ago), and I enjoy developing websites - so a natural step was to create a Material Design web app. Firstly, you may be wondering what on earth is the Luhn Algorithm? It is a checksum algorithm used for credit cards and the like - it checks that the card number entered is valid, using a rather simple process: it reverses the digits, then each digit in an odd indexed position (based on zero-indexing) is doubled. If this comes to more than 9 (i.e. more than one digit), it subtracts 9 (the same as adding the digits). Finally, if the sum of all of the digits (replacing those at odd-indexed positions wit…
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Implementing Jekyll

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Recently, I reflected upon my school's BBC Young Reporter (previous name BBC School Report) website:
I decided that the design was very outdated, and when I originally designed it, my design sense wasn't quite up to scratch. Thus, I redesigned it with Google's newly released Material Design 2.0. I really like this design language, but found it difficult implementing it on a static site, hosted on GitHub Pages - which means I can't install it locally to the server using npm i material-components-web, which is the recommended method. I had to use, therefore, the procedure detailed in this post. The process for adding an article to the site was also very long-winded, involving placing the article content in two sets of HTML, then placing that HTML on three or more pages. I was not at all satisfied with this, so, with the BBC Young Reporter day coming up (6th March), I set out finding a new way to add articles.

When I first set up my website, I came across Jekyll, but deci…
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