Scott Rohde

Software Engineer

Scott left his beautiful home state of Oregon to come to Illinois and get a PhD in mathematics and become fluent in French and Russian. Here's how he describes his path to becoming a programmer:

"My interest in computers dates from as early as age eleven, when, as a gift, I received my first computer (it went by the name of 'Digicomp', had three bits of memory, and was programmed by inserting short plastic tubes onto plastic pegs)."

Scott has programmed Java, Python, and XML for the McGraw-Hill project for which OJC has produced 6 online economics textbook supplements in 2 years. He writes and maintains XML source files and their DTDs, maintains Makefile and Python scripts that transform XML, and uses the DiscoverEcon Java API to create Java applets that are used as exercises, animations, and quizzes.

For the Stats Inc. project, Scott wrote XSLT transforms to efficiently pull sports statistics data from large XML files and present it in HTML fragments. Stats Inc. now applies these XSLT transformations to their up-to-date XML data in order to create HTML-rendered statistics which are provided to major sports media producers.

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