Hello there, and welcome to my final project for Harvard's CS50 course.
["CHARACTER COUNTS"]
[A Chrome Browser Extension]
[Keith D Commiskey - Reno, NV, US]
The Character Counts Chrome browser extension was published on October 1, 2017, and can be found in the Chrome Web Store.
The extension comes complete with a screenshot, and its very own custom icon(s) which I created as part of the extension design.
I wrote the text conversion part of this extension separately so it can also be used in other environments (such as inside HTML e-mails for fun).
Inquiring Minds (the backstory): I'm always wanting to know the character counts of things for one reason or another, and find myself having to open OpenOffice Writer quite often (a lovely app, but a tad overkill to get a simple character count).
[REFERENCES]
[RELEVANT RESOURCES]
GitHub (Open Source) - [ Ссылка ]
Chrome Web Store - [ Ссылка ]
Chrome Web Store Search - [ Ссылка ]
[CHARACTER CONVERSION CODE]
'Convert 0101' CodePen - [ Ссылка ]
'Convert 0101' Gist - [ Ссылка ]
[ATTRIBUTION]
Instrumental Intro Music - [ Ссылка ]
[SLIDE] - CS50 - [ Ссылка ]
[SLIDE] - Vivek Jayaram: Automated Analysis of Music and Audio - [ Ссылка ]
[SLIDE] - Walter Martin: Chrome Extensions - [ Ссылка ]
[WHY I TOOK CS50]
In my research to become a better developer, I found Harvard's CS50 course referenced in the following article by Zach Shallbetter: [ Ссылка ]
Sounds good, but why take the course?
I subsequently found the following question: [How Hard is CS50x]([ Ссылка ])
Quora answer by John Birchall on Mar 3, 2016
"For someone who is a beginner or near beginner in computer science, or C programming, or web programming, or algorithms, all the good things they say about the course are true."
In my 28-year career being self-taught with computers, I felt I could benefit from some solid CS fundamentals as I continue my current venture towards full-stack JavaScript engineering.
[PROJECT/PRESENTATION CREATION]
Extension Creation:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (VirtualBox VM)
Sublime Text 3 (Win 10)
Presentation:
OpenOffice Impress
Audacity
ActivePresenter
Photoshop Elements
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[TRANSCRIPT]
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[SLIDE - SPLASH PAGE]
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Hello there and welcome to my final project for Harvard's CS50 course.
[SLIDES - INSTRUMENTAL INTRO]
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In the beginning...
I had NO idea...
of just WHAT...
I would create for a final CS50 project.
:-/ <unsure crooked smiley face>
[SLIDE - FADE IN - PORTFOLIO PAGE]
Hello again. My name is Keith Commiskey.
The following video collage is a little background and walkthrough of my final project for Harvard's CS50 course.
[SLIDE - CS50 - [ Ссылка ]]
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I watched through all the end-of-course seminar videos, and I wondered if I could...
[SLIDE - YOUTUBE - SEMINAR - AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF MUSIC AND AUDIO (VIVEK JAYARAM) - [ Ссылка ]]
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...become a DJ?
Maybe not... I can't really tell a tuning fork from a carving fork
(I could however direct you to the nearest Git Fork).
But... then...
[SLIDE - YOUTUBE - SEMINAR - CHROME EXTENSIONS (WALTER MARTIN) - [ Ссылка ]]
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... ...Creating a browser extension would be fun; and getting one in the Chrome Store could be kind of cool.
[SLIDE - GITHUB 'CHARACTER COUNTS' - [ Ссылка ]]
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And so with that, I set out to build my first browser extension.
The result? I built 'Character Counts': A Chrome Web Extension written with a little JavaScript.
Cross over to live-capture on Chrome (single-tab page) (capture with Win-G)
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[MP4 SCREEN CAPTURE FROM ActivePresenter]
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The extension will count selected characters on the page -- and can convert them between ASCII (char), ASCII (int), and a binary 8-bit representation of a byte.
The text conversion part I wrote first as its own component, so it can be used in other environments. And that code is also available separately.
[FINAL SLIDES]
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That's about it.
Feel free to submit a Pull Request with any suggestions or enhancements.
All the pertinent URLs are provided in the video description.
Thanks for watching!
