Nic Ferencko

Things I've built

I'm Nic Ferencko, a programmer who likes small, finished projects. Here are five of them, one at a time.

This portfolio site

A static page that lists my programming projects, hosted for free on GitHub Pages. It uses plain HTML and CSS with no build step, so a push to the repo updates the live site.

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Project link

github.com/nferencko/Nic-s-Programming-Projects

Reflection

What I was able to get the AI to create an artifact quickly and all I had to do was understand the assignment and know what tools I wanted to use. It was a positive experience for me because all I had to focus on was creating a proof of concept that I wanted to create, and from there Claude took care of all the syntactical sugar which was needed due to me having no experience in html. The speed of getting something that fulfilled the basic requirements for the assignment made me motivated to go the extra mile and give it more of a personal touch and make it look better. I wanted the AI to give me different coloring themes for the website, and I would pick my favorite. However, it interpreted in a way that the website has different buttons on it and the viewer can click each button to change the theme. Despite the miscommunication, I actually really liked that after the fact and decided to keep it.

Pup Fantasy

A fantasy football rest-of-season rankings site that blends projections and rankings from six public sources and re-scores them for my own league's scoring and roster rules. It also has a trade calculator, start/sit comparison, trade and waiver-wire suggestions, and an animated logo of my dog catching a football.

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Project link

github.com/nferencko/Pup_Fantasy

Reflection

This project was a lot of fun and the first time I made something that I felt was unique to my interests. It is definetely something I will use during the football season. I learned a lot with how to prompt Claude and what it is capable of. Next time I will prompt in smaller pieces to make it easier for me to understand what Claude is doing.

Project 3

Coming soon.

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Reflection

What did I build, what was hard, and what would I do differently? Write a few sentences here.

Project 4

Group project.

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Project 5

Moonshot project.

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