Autumn 2025 - Spring 2026: Game Animation, Artificial Intelligence, Principles of Programming Languages, Software Requirements Analysis, Databases, Software Applications.

In Game Animation, I developed several small Unity games and animations (see GitHub repo: unity-projects-3541). The Artificial Intelligence course focused on supervised learning. While it was not very advanced, it gave me a solid introduction and helped me understand many core concepts. For Principles of Programming Languages, we implemented a simple C-like language using Java CUP, which deepened my understanding of language design and parsing.

The other three courses are still in progress. In Software Requirements Analysis, I hope to learn how to transform ideas into clear, structured requirements. In Databases, I aim to understand how to design efficient and scalable systems. For Software Applications, I hope to gain more industry-relevant or research-oriented machine learning knowledge.

Autumn 2024 - Summer 2025: Java, assembly language, web application development, and computer networks.

Built a Java learning project focused on class hierarchies and abstraction (see GitHub repo profolio-2231). Also used Makefiles to simplify packaging and wrote simple assembly code. From the web application development course, I learned Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Middleman, and Ruby on Rails, and worked in a Linux (Ubuntu) virtual machine environment. The course was a bit stressful, but I gained a lot of hands-on experience. For computer networks, there were so many technical terms—it was challenging, especially since I wasn't very confident in my English or my memory. Even though I earned a good grade, I have to admit I forgot quite a bit after that semester 😅.

Learned the basics of Vue, AJAX, Element UI, Maven, Tomcat, Postman, and MySQL.

Just started exploring Spring Boot and MyBatis.

Honestly, it was more of a quick overview rather than deep learning.

Studied C, Python, data structures, and digital circuits.

Built a simple C-based management system as a course project. Though the code was bulky, I wish I had learned how to publish it online at that time. Python was powerful but its numerous methods weren't very memory-friendly 😅. Digital circuits were fascinating with chips, though less enjoyable when dealing with oscilloscope configurations.

Learned Visual Basic as part of a school course in Zhejiang Province. It was a chosen elective subject for the Gaokao curriculum. Compared to NOIP in middle school, it felt less challenging, focusing mostly on basic programming and simple algorithms, but it helped solidify my understanding of programming fundamentals.

Participated in my first coding contest using C. I didn't win any prizes, but I gained valuable experience in algorithms and problem-solving. Honestly, after this contest I wasn't very interested in coding for a while. It felt a bit early for me, and I didn't have a solid foundation yet. However, this experience made it much easier to learn programming later on.

Created simple games using Scratch, sparking my interest in coding.