I have been working at Transpharmation since May 2022. My job is to search for new clients in a medical personnel database and verify the integrity of the data inside the Transpharmation Copper Database. I have also produced a few tools in the form of browser extensions and desktop apps to help my colleagues with their work.
Data Mining & Database Management
I volunteered at the New York New Jersey Trail Conference over the summer of 2020, where I helped with their data management for monitoring the sites of invasive species. I used Python with pandas, ArcGIS and Excel to build, clean, orgainsie and export the relevant data.
Data Management
I have been working on various mods and modding libraries for Minecraft for 5 years. This is where I first learned how to read and write complex Java code and have since honed my skill through various projects. My most popular mod is Neruina, a mod that fixes a common cause of crashes that is present in many other mods. You can view my other projects on my CurseForge or Modrinth pages.
Minecraft Modding
BCHACKS 4.0 was the 4th iteration of the 48 hour BCHACKS hackathon, and the first official hackathon I attended. I, as a member of a team of three, produced Phordy, a platformer game that uses the 4th dimension to allow the player to complete levels and collect coins along the way. We won the accessibility prize for our game as I had added colour blind colour correction and were 3rd place contentors overall.
Game Development
This is the second revison of this website, I taught myself how to program in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create this website. Since the first revision, I have learned more about popular JavaScript libraries such as Animation Engine and Flickity.
Web Development
I have produced a few Discord bots for various servers. Notably UBCBot, a bot that fetched the menu from the UBC canteen website for the day and created a Discord embed with the menu. This bot served over 300 people and was used daily until the University canteen switched to a new website that better displayed the menu.
Discord Bot Development
Ben Norton
I am a year-old full-stack developer, who is currently studying for a Bachelor's of Computer Science at UBC.
I have been programming for over 10 years, and am knowledgeable in Java, Python, Swift and JavaScript. Most of my programming knowledge is self-taught; consequently, I am able to pick up new concepts, languages and libraries with relative ease.