\section{Personal Projects}

\projectHeading{Real-time Shadow Simulator}{https://github.com/MichaelMBradley/perlin-shadows}{C++, OpenGL}
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    \item this was fun :3 % TODO: Fill out
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\projectHeading{Electronic Holiday Card Distribution}{https://github.com/MichaelMBradley/holidaycards2022}{JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3}
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    \item Created a website from scratch (deployed using GitHub Pages) to distribute holiday cards to friends and family
    \item Used JavaScript APIs to encrypt the messages using 256-bit AES-CTR to ensure messages were only read by the intended recipient
    \item Used a graphics library (\href{https://p5js.org}{p5.js}) to generate unique assets and animated backgrounds
    \item Implemented a limited set of markdown functionality with regex replacement
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\projectHeading{Video-Game Market Web Scraper}{https://github.com/MichaelMBradley/CSGOCaseValues}{Python, MatPlotLib}
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    \item Developed program to retrieve and analyze Steam Market data to determine the expected value of opening a lootbox in CS:GO
    \item Gathered analysis by scraping relevant websites, allowing analysis to be done over months-worth of daily data
    \item Found meaningful ways to represent data to show profitability over time, proving them to be a bad investment
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