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Project: Presidential PDFs

All Trump's and Obama's speeches in one PDF.

Wanting to get more familiar with web-scraping tools like Beautiful Soup and Selenium, I embarked on the task of collating all the speeches of presidents Trump and Obama into single, "readable" PDF documents. Gathering the data, and then using the docx package, I was able create these resulting 5636 page and 2593 page PDFs for Trump and Obama respectively. The PDF documents come complete with a cover page and contents page.

The PDFs are located in this GitHub repo, perfect for a night of light reading!

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Website: Learn Morse Code

GitHub Repo

As part of my Agile Web Development unit at university, we embarked on a journey to create a website where people could learn morse code. The result that Dean Law, Jonathan Choong, and myself came up with was Learn Morse. A website with flashcards, minigames, and user statistics that guides the user through learning morse code.

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I've never been much of a sudoku fan, but ever since I've started coding I've wanted to create a program that is able to solve them. I found out it was a bit of a tall ask for a newbie programmer a few years ago, but stumbling across my failed attempt, I decided to give it another go.

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A new website, a new beginning. Welcome to vecko.me!

EDIT: I've since released the vecko.me domain - back to good ol' GitHub pages URL.

Update

This post is now out of date. I have since moved to a version using mkdocs. Surprise surprise - takes time to maintain something bespoke 🙂.

Ever since I started coding a few years ago, I have always loved doing personal projects to explore what is possible with computers, and to just straight up have fun. As I developed my coding skills, what started off as small games with bucket-loads of "if" statements turned into more mature, fully fledged projects.