Seth Skocelas

AreTheyGood?NBA is an iOS Swift app I created to further build on my iOS development skills. Basketball is my favorite sport to follow, and I wanted to work with interacting with Web APIs and parsing JSON, so when I discovered that you could pull stats from nba.com in a JSON format, I figured it would be a fun thing to pursue. This app allows you to pull the stats for a player or a team for any given year since the NBA started to track play-by-play stats. You can also compare the stats of two players. To make the app more interesting, I'm also giving a slight analysis based on the stats given. I'm determining if a player is "good" (obviously every player in the NBA is good) based off of where they place in the different stat quartiles for their position. I generated these quartiles using full stat sheets generated in the backend of the app and running those through R.

I don't have any intention of publishing this app on the App Store until I find a new source for the stats used, but the full source code for this is currently available at my GitHub page.

MyChoreTracker is an iOS application I created while learning how to develop iOS apps using Swift 3 and xCode. The premise of it is simple. I have a set amount of chores I need to do around my apartment and I wanted a way to notate each time I do them so that I can establish how often I do a selected chore and when the need to do a chore is coming up. ChoreTracker allows me to easily notate this and view at a later time. MyChoreTracker gives an initial view of the most recent instance of each chore and then allows users to select a chore, in order to view all instances of the selected chore, in order of most recent.

MyChoreTracker is available to download for free on the iOS App Store.

Click here to access the support page for MyChoreTracker.

The PHMS Android app was an application I worked on with 3 other students during our junior year Software Engineering class. The concept of the class was to build an application from the ground up and experience a full waterfall development cycle, from requirements gathering to product delivery. The final result was an app that allowed users to create an account locally and store information regarding their diet, exercise and the medication they take.

I was responsible for the Medication portion of the application as well as the search functionality.

PixelSense Secure Transfer was the senior design project I worked on with 4 other fellow students. We were tasked with creating a device that could use light to transfer data to and from a Microsoft PixelSense table, since the touch screen of the PixelSense used infrared light to detect touch. We built an Arduino based device that had multiple phototransistors to read data from the table using light, and had multiple infrared LEDs to send bits to the table that it could read. This device was connected to an Android tablet which provided/interpreted the data. To show this capability off, we modified a Blackjack game that played on the table to interpret commands from the tablet as well as store and update the chip count on the tablet.

I worked on the Arduino programming of the device, implementing code that would read light from the table through phototransistors and convert it to bits, as well as working on the hardware design/build. In addition, I was the team lead, responsible for maintaining the project plan and making any final decisions for the group if needed.