TCNJ ACM

04/10/2015

Happy Friday! We'd like to congratulate the newly elected and re-elected ACM e-board team: Brandon Gottlob (President), Andrew Miller (Vice-President), Matt Rasa (Treasurer), Brittany Reedman (Secretary), Kevin Bohinski (Webmaster), and Jake Orben (Membership Chair). We look forward to seeing the great things this team will do with ACM next year! :D

03/25/2015

Hi all and welcome back from break! Later today we will have a meeting in the Forcina Mac Lab at 2:30pm. Our treasurer, Matt Rasa, will be doing a workshop on Java GUIs. We hope you'll all join us for this workshop!

03/11/2015

Hello everyone, don't forget that today's meeting will be held at 2:30pm in the Mac lab. Andrew Miller will be running a workshop on Vim! See you all there.

02/17/2015

Hello everyone, we will meet tomorrow in the mac lab (Forcina 403) for our workshop on webscraping with python. We will create a python webscraper that scrapes Craigslist and we will use python 2.7. Please come with python installed already on your own machine along with pip and the requests library. If you run into any trouble, we can help, but try to have it all installed beforehand. ***Be sure to bring your own laptop if possible since we do not have the permissions to install the necessary libraries on the lab computers. Thanks and see you all tomorrow.

02/12/2015

Hi everyone, right after Wednesday's meeting we tallied the results of the poll for next week's tutorial. The popular choice was webscraping with python so we will be doing a full tutorial on that. We hope to see you all there and be sure to check your emails for some preliminary setup necessary for the tutorial!
Here are the all-inclusive poll results:
Robocode - 3
Python - 4
Webscraping - 8
Cuda - 1
Drupal - 2
Node - 0
Swift - 2

02/10/2015

Hello everyone! For this week's meeting, the ACM e-board will be doing four lightning talks on a variety of technical topics including Python, Drupal, Node, and Cuda. We are excited to present these talks and we hope to see you all tomorrow in Forcina 403 at 2:30pm!

02/04/2015

Sorry for the late notice everyone but we're having an ACM meeting today at 2:30pm (yes in 15 minutes) in the CS lounge. There will be pizza and redemption trivia, so come here. Thanks and see you there! :D

12/26/2014

Hello everyone and happy holidays! I wanted to share this conference with you all. WECode (Women Engineers Code) is a collegiate conference that focuses on promoting diversity within Computer Science. It's a great networking event and it's open to anyone regardless of gender. I will be driving up there with a friend or two and am willing to take as many as can fit in my car. Tickets are on sale now for $40, and there are scholarships available to cover the cost if you can't afford it. Check it out and feel free to ask me any questions about the conference! http://www.wecodeharvard.com/

Official Website of Women Engineers Code Conference

11/25/2014

On a separate note: Here are some wise (paraphrased) words from one of my role models, Brian Bi, on being thankful for being in this great field:
“Be grateful that you are a software engineer or a computer scientist and that it is easy for you to find a job while many others struggle. Be grateful that you can get a job that pays well with only a bachelor's degree, maybe even no degree at all. Be grateful that tech companies treat their employees so well in comparison to many other companies. Being grateful gives you happiness for free…

In many ways, life sucks. If you are a software engineer or a computer scientist, your career---one of the most important components of your life---sucks a lot less than average. Be grateful and don't take it for granted… show your gratitude to yourself by staying sharp, learning as much as you can, and making the most of your experience as a software engineer, so you can stay competitive---or else you may regret it later.”

11/25/2014

Hello everyone, I have two announcements. We have been asked to help with the Celebration of Computing on Dec. 3rd by providing games for us to play. Please message me, or comment below, if there is any game (video game or board game) that you would like to bring. We would greatly appreciate it! The second announcement is that there will no ACM meeting this week since we're off for Thanksgiving. =) Have a nice break!

11/11/2014

Hi all. We will be meeting tomorrow at 2:30pm in the Mac Lab. We will have a fun pair programming session, so bring your favorite coding buddy! See you all there.

11/04/2014

Hello ACMers, tomorrow's meeting will be in the Mac Lab at 2:30pm. We will discuss Microsoft Developer Tools and potential hacks that we can make using those tools. As many of you know, we are currently discussing HackTCNJ sponsorship with Microsoft but they want us to give them a clear plan of how we're going to use their technology at HackTCNJ. This meeting is important because we need your ideas and feedback in order to make a strong case to Microsoft this Friday. See you all tomorrow!