College Update

I've been really busy the past few weeks with college tours and scholarship interviews, and everything is finally coming to a close.  This next year, I will be attending the University of California, Los Angeles for Computer Science.  I can't wait!  Scholarship-wise, I have received a $10,000 scholarship from the UCLA Alumni Association and $10,000 from the Coca-Cola Scholarship Foundation.  I have met more amazing people through both programs than I could have ever imagined and I highly recommend that people apply for both scholarships!

For the Coca-Cola scholarship, I was flown out to Atlanta, Georgia for a weekend of fun and interviews.  There were about 250 of us scholars and we listened to presentations, toured various landmarks and were interviewed by some Coca-Cola Alumni.  It was an amazing program!  I met outstanding high school seniors from all over the country that had started non-profits, worked for defense contractors and fought gang-violence in their communities (just to name a few).  I can't even begin to say how truly honored I am to have met them!

For the UCLA Alumni scholarship, I had to go through a 3 part competition with the other 30-something scholars from around California.  I had to miss the first day, which was team building and games, because I was in Atlanta for my interview, but the second day was a ton of fun!  I met many awesome people and I can't wait to go to school with them next year!

Thanks for stopping by and Go Bruins!

Chris Konstad

Update: Spring Break, College Acceptances, etc.

Sorry for being so quiet for awhile.  I went traveling with my family during Spring Break and didn't have access to a computer or internet for almost 2 weeks.  It was great to unplug for awhile!

In other news, I found out that I was accepted by USC, UCLA and UCSD for computer science!  I'm pretty thrilled to be able to choose between such great schools!

Right now, I have a few small tweaks coming down the line for the Unit Circle Quiz android app.  I fixed a small UI bug and I'm adding a main menu screen.  I might add some other features soon, and maybe a "lite" version, but we'll see.  For my school, I have a fair amount of work to do with our school club directory app, so that'll take up more of my free time from now until just after it launches.  And finally, I have a ton of work (as usually) to do for my robotics team.  I'm kept pretty busy!

I have big plans for this summer (my first summer without summer homework, and also my longest summer vacation to date).  I want to push out a few more Android apps and write a BUNCH of QML/C++ tutorials as I more fully learn how to leverage them together.  The official release of Qt 5.1 will help out with that...

Thanks for stopping by!

Chris Konstad

UnitCircleQuiz

Good morning!  I have finally written and released my first paid-application!  It's called UnitCircleQuiz and I wrote it to help people memorize the unit circle.  It displays all of the angles in Radians and their corresponding coordinates within the unit circle.  The timer at the top records how long it takes you to complete the unit circle and the progress bar along the bottom shows you how far through the round you are.  Once completed, a high score list is shown with your best scores (percentage correct) and best times.

You can find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrisk.UnitCircleQuiz.

For the technically inclined:  I wrote this app using QML and Qt C++, which was a pretty amazing experience!  I could easily and instantly test out any screen resolution and aspect ration by debugging the QML UI file as a native application on my computer.  If you're looking for a language to develop Android apps in, seriously consider QML and C++!

Thanks for stopping by!

Chris Konstad

Important: Fixed Monterey 2.0.3Beta Download for Windows

So I found out over the weekend that my zip archive on SourceForge for Monterey was lacking one DLL that caused Monterey to not function.  I just fixed the issue and uploaded a new zip.  You can find it here.  I feel really embarrassed for letting such a glaring issue slide by for so many months.  Sorry if I caused any problems!

I'm thinking about shifting rov-suite from SourceForge to Github because I like Github's social features and Github is just generally more polished.  If I do that, the executable binaries will be hosted elsewhere, maybe in the public folder of my DropBox, and linked to the Github page.

Thanks for stopping by,

Chris

Networking Test Update: Fixed Phone Layout

I updated NetworkingTest today to fix how it scales for phone screens.  Now, the tabbed UI gives you a better view of your received packets while improving the layout of the settings dialog.  Feature wise, nothing has changed.  This update only fixes a few bugs (see Google Play for more information) and fixes the scaling issue.

I highly recommend that you update to the latest version.

Thanks for stopping by!

Chris

Thumb Hypoplasia Update: Version 1.1

I just updated Thumb Area to version 1.1.  In the update, I cleaned up the source code a little and I added a few user-visible features:

• Overwrite protection: The user can no longer accidentally overwrite saved thumb data
• Informative Save Successful Dialog: The dialog now shows the full file path instead of the path to the folder

This update is small but it is important.  I highly recommend updating!

Thanks for stopping by,

Chris Konstad

Thumb Hypoplasia App Released to Google Play!

I finally got around to uploading Thumb Area to Google Play, which is a pretty big milestone.  Now my app can start helping the people it was built to help!  I still have some modifications to make, like how it handles saving data pictures if the filename is already taken, but it's in a useful state right now.

Download it and check it out! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Chris Konstad