You are invited to join a new group of computer scientists and computer engineers at the University of Arkansas, who will meet regularly to work on hacking, coding and teach new programs outside of the classroom. No experience with the systems is necessary, and group activity of “openHACK” will be decided democratically.
“If you’re going to go far in this business, you have to do it all the time,” said Addam Hardy, creator of openHACK. He feels that learning outside the classroom is more beneficial for students, and wants to provide a more creative, free environment for computing students to teach themselves and each other. “We’ll have straight-up introductions to this software, you don’t have to know anything about these systems to join,” he said. What he’s recognizing is that “you take a class and you don’t think you can do it…but we want to take the intimidation out of what you’re learning.
openHACK will focus on a few areas that will appeal more to computer science folk, such as NOSQL data systems i.e MongoDB (also Cloud storage/Map/Reduce); Ruby on Rails (building a blog engine/building a twitter clone); an introduction to Source Control, Git and GitHub; Behavior/Test Driven Design (BDD/TDD) and iOS Development.
The areas that will appeal more to the computer engineering students are an Introduction to Arduino Microcontroller and XBOX Kinect Hacking.
What do you have to do to join? Get in touch with Addam Hardy at addam.hardy@gmail.com, via twitter at @addamh, or http://github.com/addamh. Hardy’s experience at socialvolt and with other computing jobs inspired him to form a group for a creative computing outlet. He hopes to have 20 people interested before officially kicking off meetings, so stay in touch!
photo credit xkcd (http://xkcd.com/722/)
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