Stock Quote Reader

The stock quote reader was my own version of teaching myself C. The complete application involved a plant fitted with an infrared sensor. Using special tags developed by others in the Pia group, the sensor detected the identity of the person standing near the plant. This caused the computer attached to the other end of the sensor to dispatch a program to find the stock portfolio of the user, retrieve the stock quotes from the Internet, and finally present them to the user.

The pieces of this project that I worked on involved the application that ran on top of the infrastructure. Once my program received the ID, it looked up the portfolio, ran the Internet query, decoded the result, assembled the result into tokens, and produced a string that was translated into audio for the listener.

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