Welcome to the homepage of Jack M. Rosenthal

Contact Info

sprintf(email_address, "%s@%s.%s", "jack", "rosenth", "al");
(define email-address (format "~A@~A.~A" "jack" "rosenth" "al"))
email_address = "{}@{}.{}".format("jack", "rosenth", "al")

Also find me on GitHub!

Fun Stuff

• Did you know I collect computers? Check out my collection!
• I developed my own keyboard layout.
• I'm the CEO, CTO, CMO, and CIO of BashNET! We make excellent products, such as the feature-rich Navajo HTTP Server.
• Want to play a game of Mastermind against a computer codebreaker AI?
• Hacking Docutils (plus, reStructuredText, Sphinx, and the like)
• How to generate product keys for Windows 95, NT 4, and the like
• Check out my GitHub repositories, where I post the latest code I'm hacking on.
• I post most of my Linux dotfiles online if you want to see the my configuration.

Mines-Related Projects

Here are some things I worked on while I was a student at Colorado School of Mines, and some things that would be useful for a Mines student:

• CS@Mines Puzzle Challenge (GitHub)
• AlgoBOWL (GitHub)
• CSM DirSearch Python Library: Search the Mines directory from the command line, Python, and from Mutt
• CSM NetReg CLI: Register MAC addresses on the Mines network from the command line
• Debannerizer: Scrape course schedule data from Self Service Banner and build a normalized SQL database
• Course projects:
  • WAR with Auction Rounds (Video, Report, Presentation, GitHub)
  • Multi-Agent Continous Motion Simulation using Discrete Events
  • Shadow Recruit Shell: A bash-like UNIX shell
  • srtop: A top-like clone
• Hackathon projects:
  • Parqyng Lots: A project for the Xilinx PYNQ Hackathon in Fall 2017 that measures car enterances and exits from parking lots using arrays of motion sensors. The sensors update a TurboGears 2 web app with displays on which parking lots have spots. This project won 1st place at the hackathon.
  • FanMap: FC Bayern HackDays project
  • BlockMRS: A blockchain based medical record system using IPFS, including a reference implementation using TurboGears 2 (MinneHack 2018 Hackathon Project)

Teaching

Here are some courses I have taught or developed in the past. I hope they can be useful to you.

• Principles of Programming Languages (Fall 2018)
• Principles of Programming Languages (Spring 2018)
• Python Courses:
  • Camp Inc. (Summer 2016) (Intended audience: high school students, or smart middle schoolers)
  • C-START (Summer 2017) (Intended audience: K-12 teachers ready to commit to 3-days of learning)
  • C-START (Mini 1-hour Workshop) (Intended audience: K-12 teachers who want a 1-hour overview of Python)
  • CSCI-101 (Python Part) (Intended audience: new CS undergraduate students, 8-week course)
  • "The Pythonic Way" (Mines Linux Users Group)
• C-START UNC Course

Other/Misc

I have a CV/Resume available upon request. Please email me if interested.

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