Whether it?s coding a new program, or playing games, the SJSU computer science club is open for all SJSU students to mingle with others.
Located in the left corner of the second floor of MacQuarrie Hall, the computer science club meets every weekday to do both school work and play video games.
?The CS club is open all the time, for students to relax and brush up on studies,? said Aaron Brown, a junior and creative writing major.
The computer science club hosted its first Local Area Network (LAN) party of the semester on Friday night for club members and guests,?filling the club room?with?PC gamers on laptop computers.
A LAN party is a gathering of people who bring their computers to play games with each other. ?A guest is required to bring his or her own computer and hook it up to the network hub. ?The network hub connects all the computers together so participants can all play the same game together.
Titles played include League of Legends, Team Fortress 2, Starcraft and several?console games that were emulated for the computer.
Club president David Do, a senior computer science major, and club vice president Yu-Ching Wang, a senior computer science major, said the computer science club?s goal is to help others take a further step into computer science.
?We want to expose our members to opportunities that are inherent in the computer science field,? Do said.
To help students, Do said they have ?tech talk events? where?representatives from tech?companies?to give insight about what their firms do.
Companies such as Microsoft Corportation, IBM, Avanade Inc., Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Zynga and NetApp Inc. have visited in past semesters.
According to Wang, these tech talks?are invaluable to those who are graduating with a degree in?any computer major.
?The tech talks from the companies prepare the students for the future,? Wang said. ?It introduces a sample of what the real world is?like.?
On occasion, there will even be a job or internship opportunity available when the representative visits.
Do and Wang want computer science students to stay connected and to help one another when programming can become tough.
?Our goal is to help students take the next level in their programming careers,? Wang said.
San Jose State alumni?also give tech talks?about their experiences with computer science.
Wang said that the second goal of the CS club is to assist students in academic studies and build more resources for them.
To do this, ?Wang said club tutors are available to help students with coding assignments and math puzzles.
According to Do, computer science majors primarily program in the Java language because it is one of the essential basics.
?Java is the basic language that every computer science major must know,? Do said.
The Java language was developed in the early ?90s at Sun Microsystems, previously headquartered in Santa Clara before it merged with Redwood City?s Oracle Corporation. ?The language involves code that is made to be compiled in a platform like NetBeans or BlueJ to work on just about every virtual platform.
According to Do, programming?requires logic and critical thinking skills to create?complex code.
Wang said that some of the programmers will also learn how to code in?C++, the language that Java is derived from.
Do said that the CS club is also known for its ?quiet days,? where?the club room will be near silent, and used to only study or talk about the languages they?re programming in, and its??top coder contests,? for those who are good at?solving problems with code.
Previous CS club contests include ?codes with holes,? ?algorithms,? and ?problem sets.?
Aaron Brown said in addition to helping students who are computer science majors, the club?is a great place to debrief.
?The computer science club is a place for relaxing and playing games,? Brown said while playing Starcraft at Friday?s LAN party. ?It?s a convenient time for me to chill with my side hobby of playing games.?
The club room is in MacQuarrie Hall 227 and is open for anyone to visit for help or for leisure on computers.
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Source: http://spartandaily.com/63100/love-computers-check-out-the-sjsu-computer-science-club
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