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Nada Galal

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Hello! My name is Nada (she/her). I’m a class of 2023 student at UCSD majoring in computer science and minoring in design and business. I’m currently also a computer science tutor in the computer science department, a middle school mentor with an organization called CovEd, and a publicity, social media, and monthly newsletter intern at the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion community in the UCSD computer science department. Check out the rest of this page to know more about my educational background and tutoring experience!

About my educational background

Graduated high school in 2019 from Riada American School in Alexandria, Egypt
Currently a B.S. student at the University of California, San Diego planning to graduate in 2023
- Major: Computer Science
- Minors:
  - Design (with a focus on interaction design)
  - Business

About my tutoring

I have a great passion for teaching. I was an elementary school tutor when I was in high school, I mentored students in underserved areas in Egypt and helped design their curriculums, and I became a computer science tutor for the first time in January of 2021. I tutored for CSE 8B (Introduction to Programming and Computational Problem-Solving II) with Professor Christine Alvarado, and I’m currently tutoring for CSE 30 (Computer Organization and Systems Programming) with Professor Bryan Chin. In March of 2021, I joined an organization called CovEd as a volunteer mentor to mentor for students in Chicago Heights Middle School.

Some of my skills

Programming in Java, C, C++, Python
Design
Problem Solving
Speaking Arabic, English, and some French

Other

My career goals:

succeed in the industry in a job that allows me to blend and make use of my design skills and my problem solving skills
always be teaching on the side
contribute to the making of an animation movie (ideally a Disney movie)

Some fun: A staff member who graded a programming assignment of mine in my first programming class (CSE 8A) commented on my submission

If you explain more on how you achieve vibrance I would have given you the star point :) I think you did something really cool here, you should include it on your github account if you have one.

However, I never included the code on my github because I didn’t know how to use it. Now that I’m using it, thanks to CSE 110, here is the vibrance method the grader was referring to:

    public static Image vibrance(Image img, int level){
      Color[][] imgArr = img.getPixels2D();
      //these variables track which color component is more frequently bigger in the array of colors
      int moreRedCount = 0;
      int moreGreenCount = 0;
      int moreBlueCount = 0;
      //this nested loop increases a color's component if it's bigger than the other 2 components in every pixel
      for (int row = 0; row < img.getHeight(); row++){
        for (int col = 0; col < img.getWidth(); col++){
          Color currPixel = imgArr[row][col];
          int red = currPixel.getRed();
          int green = currPixel.getGreen();
          int blue = currPixel.getBlue();
          if (red > green && red > blue){
            red += level;
            moreRedCount += 1;
          }
          else if (green > blue && green > red){
            green += level;
            moreGreenCount += 1;
          }
          else if (blue > red && blue > green){
            blue += level;
            moreBlueCount += 1;
          }
          //these if statements ensure that a color component doesn't go out of bound
          if (red > 255){
            red = 255;
          }
          if (green > 255){
            green = 255;
          }
          if (blue > 255){
            blue = 255;
          }
          if (red < 0){
            red = 0;
          }
          if (green < 0){
            green = 0;
          }
          if (blue < 0){
            blue = 0;
          }
          imgArr[row][col] = new Color (red, green, blue);
        }
      }
      //this nested loop deals with pixels that have equal amount of color in every component
      //it increases the number of the most frequently bigger color component in white/gray/black pixels
      for (int row = 0; row < img.getHeight(); row++){
        for (int col = 0; col < img.getWidth(); col++){
          Color currPixel = imgArr[row][col];
          int red = currPixel.getRed();
          int green = currPixel.getGreen();
          int blue = currPixel.getBlue();
          if (red == green && red == blue){
            if (moreRedCount > moreGreenCount && moreRedCount > moreBlueCount){
              red += level;
            }
            else if (moreGreenCount > moreRedCount && moreGreenCount > moreBlueCount){
              green += level;
            }
            else if (moreBlueCount > moreRedCount && moreBlueCount > moreGreenCount){
              blue += level;
            }
          }
          //these if statements ensure that a color component doesn't go out of bound
          if (red > 255){
            red = 255;
          }
          if (green > 255){
            green = 255;
          }
          if (blue > 255){
            blue = 255;
          }
          if (red < 0){
            red = 0;
          }
          if (green < 0){
            green = 0;
          }
          if (blue < 0){
            blue = 0;
          }
          imgArr[row][col] = new Color (red, green, blue);
        }
      }
      Image newImg = new Image(imgArr);
      return newImg;
    }

Additionally, this is a link to my entire submission, and this is a link the programming assignment’s writeup.

In case you haven’t had enough of my fantastic solution to the programming assignment, check out this collage I made with the filters I created.

Home: I’m from Egypt, and I really enjoy exploring my hometown and different places in Egypt, so here are some shots I took while doing that!

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