About Me
Hi, my name is Matthew Gudka. I am 19 years old, my hometown is Clarion, IA, and I was born and raised in the philippines. Until I was 13 years old I lived in the Philippines. In 2018 my mom remarried and my step-dad lived in Clarion at the time. The next year, my mom and I moved here to the U.S. Here I continued my education at Clarion-Goldfield-Dows HS. I participated in basketball and baseball. For basketball I was the manager for the varsity team all four years of HS. For baseball, I was the manager my junior year and I played my senior year. My favorite hobbies are playing baseball/any variation of the sport and playing videogames. I had an interest for web development/programming even before coming to the U.S but, was not able to pursue it because I was homeschooled in the Philippines. I was able to pursue this interest once I entered my freshman year of high school due to the addition of an intro to programming class. However, because that was the only class the school offered, I did not continue my education on programming/web development until I entered my freshman year of college.
Degree Information
I am currently studying for my associate's degree in Web Programming and Development. This is a 2-year degree, its classes are hybrid/Online, I plan to graduate in 2025. Information from their website:
The Web Programming and Development program prepares you with the knowledge and skills to plan, create, program, test, troubleshoot, and maintain dynamic web applications. You will learn multiple programming languages, including HTML5, CSS3, PHP, ASP.NET C#, SQL, and JavaScript. You will also gain skills in:
- Programming logic
- Database design and management
- Website standards
- Responsive, mobile, and desktop website layouts
- Web application building
- Programming algorithms
Goals
My goals with this program are pretty simple.- I want to be able to make a living with something I am happy working in.
- I also want to be able to do projects that satisfy me. That is all I really want out of it.
Favorite Assignments
Combat Design
This code was designed and written by me. It was used as my Individual project for Intro to Web Development.
This project was based around Baldur's Gate 3's turn based combat, which is based on Dungeons and Dragons 5E.
It is meant to be a simpler version of what the combat would be like in text-based form using python.
While python was not required for the project, I had knowledge on how to program in python because of the programming class I took in high school.
Thankfully, I was able to use that knowledge and write the program using python. During the project, I learned about how to properly nest multiple if statements and call functions.
For an in depth explanation of how this code works, open this Document.
Hobby
This webpage was created for one of my assigments in Intro to Web Development. The webpage is meant to showcase one of my favorite games called Solasta Crown of the Magister. The game uses Dungeons and Dragons' 5E tabletop system and translates it into video game form. It contains three links to the official website, reddit, and wiki for the game. It contains my experience with the game, explanation of how it works, images, and a form(non-functional) for a reader to fill out. In this assignment, I learned how to design a clean look for a webpage.
Glacier Park
This webpage was created for one of my mini-projects in Intro to Web Development. The webpage is meant to showcase Glacier National Park. Glacier National Park is a 1,583-sq.-mi. wilderness area in Montana's Rocky Mountains, with glacier-carved peaks and valleys running to the Canadian border. It's crossed by the mountainous Going-to-the-Sun Road. Among more than 700 miles of hiking trails, it has a route to photogenic Hidden Lake. Other activities include backpacking, cycling and camping. Diverse wildlife ranges from mountain goats to grizzly bears. This mini-project taught me how to create a responsive webpage
LA Angels
This website was made for my PHP individual project. It showcases the data from a database I created on the Los Angeles Angels. The layout and design uses html5 and css while the code that makes the pages work is PHP. This might be my favorite project because I was able to showcase my skills with css while learning how to utilize PHP in order to display the data from the database.