Ever looked at other people’s code and didn’t understand what’s going on? How do you write good code, debug code and test it? Come learn clean coding practices that will serve you in PAs, projects, research and internships. Bring your laptops and get a hands on experience on writing good code. Free food will be provided!

Hack: Clean Coding

Modern software systems comprise of many layers of technology, including APIs, databases, message queues, caches, load balancers, and more. This architecture is known as a distributed system. In this workshop,  you'll learn about these various components of a distributed system, and how to apply them together to form an advanced, scalable application.

Essence of Backend Engineering - Distributed Systems

What is SQL??? SQL is one of the most common database technologies used in modern software systems. Come learn about the basics of SQL and relational databases in this edition of Essence of Backend Engineering! We'll be covering a wide variety of topics including what SQL is, how relational databases work, and how we can connect databases to a greater backend to serve core functionality for frontends.

Essence of Backend Engineering: SQL

SwiftUI helps you build great-looking apps across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift — and as little code as possible. SwiftUI is a completely new framework that allows you to design apps in a declarative way. Unlike UIKit, which is commonly used in conjunction with storyboards, SwiftUI is completely software-based. In this workshop, you will build hands on project while learning about this powerful user interface toolkit! 

Please download Xcode before the workshop!

Intro to SwiftUI Part 1

Getting ready for those upcoming technical interviews or are you interested in learning the fundamentals of Python? Come sharpen your Python skills with ACM! Python for Coding Interviews is an intermediate Python workshop series covering the fundamental tools in Python that are used in software engineering internships and new grad interviews. Come through to learn about the fundamentals behind Python lists, stacks, queues, heaps, and hash maps and how they are used with common patterns throughout coding interviews!

Python for Coding Interviews - Part 1: Overview

Learn the basics of C++, one of the most widely used programming languages in software engineering!

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