In the Spring of 2015, now graduated Seniors Thomas Lux, Randall Pittman, and Maya Shende took part in a course on Machine Learning taught by Dr. Anil Shende in the Computer Science department. As part of this course, these students explored how they could use their new found talents to aid the Roanoke College admissions…
Roanoke College Computer Science students sweep the top prizes at the 29th CCSC conference! The 29th annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in College (CCSC) South-eastern regional conference was held at Roanoke College this year. Over 100 educators and students converged on the campus on November 6th and 7th, to discuss how computer science education has…
The Roanoke College Robotics course (CPSC 310A) completed their final exam on Thursday morning. Their exam was a simplified version of the international RoboCup. Each student was tasked with designing, building, and programming a robot using Arduino microcontrollers (essentially a low power, simplistic computer), motors, various sensors, 3d printed components, and a lot of wires…
They were looking for a trophy to steal, They lost their minds on the eight hour drive, But they were willing to brave the ordeal. On February 21st, Mercer University hosted their Spring Programming competition. While the competition was originally started to give the Mercer University students a chance to practice their programming skills during…
In continuing with the tradition started just last year, the Computer Science department held a showcase for students in the introductory Computer Science and Mobile App INQ courses to show the software they created this semester to a wider audience. The computer science students were allowed to choose their final projects, and were required to…
Each year the Computer Science department takes a trip to the Consortium of Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) south eastern regional conference. This year the conference was held in North Charleston South Carolina, at the College of Charleston’s north campus. While the focus of the conference is Computer Science education, one of the more fun…
Computer Science is stereotypically a male dominated field. However, this was not always the case. Many of the pioneers in the field have been female. One of the biggest names from the field is Grace Hopper, a Navy Rear Admiral who developed the very first compiler for a programming language. She is even the individual…
The 2015 rankings from the Princeton Review are in, and Roanoke College once again finds itself among the 379 Best Colleges. In addition to this ranking, the Princeton Review has named Roanoke College as a great school for majors in Computer Science. This is the fourth consecutive year that the Computer Science department has received…
Mercer University held its eighth annual programming competition on March 1st, 2014. At this competition, teams were given 13 programming problems to solve in five hours. Teams were scored not only on how many problems they were successfully able to solve, but also how long it took to compute a solution and the number of…
