USACS

Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists

Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists

Mentor Program HackRu Fall 2012 Friday night Hacker Hour lessons Hacking at HackRU Fall 2012 Fall 2012 USACS Social Two hackers at HackRU Fall 2012

USACS is..

USACS, also known as the Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists is a Computer Science interest group. Primarily USACS exists as a club that strings together a series of events for the Rutgers CS community. Our "members" are loosely defined as event regulars attendees and participants.

In addition to our two big events that we plan on a semesterly basis, USACS runs Code Red every Friday from 3pm to 5pm in Hill 252, a program set up for 111 and 112 students to come in and get free tutoring from USACS members. After Code Red at 6pm we hold a weekly Hacker Hour session. Each Hacker Hour an upper classmen teaches an awesome subject that CS students would normally never get to learn in the standard CS curriculum.

USACS also manages a mentoring program that connects aspiring underclassmen CS students with experience upperclassmen who can teach them practical job-oriented CS skills. If you're interested in being mentored, come to Hacker hour and speak with one of the organizers about getting paired up!

Schedule for Spring 2013 Semester

  • Hacker Hour

    Hacker Hour will be being held on Friday nights at 6pm in Hill 252 (the CAVE). Here's our upcoming Hacker Hour Schedule.

    • Friday, Feburary 22nd - Getting a Job and Killing the Technical Interview

      Come learn how to land an interview to ace the technical questions for your next job or internship. We'll talk about building an online presence, writing a baller resume, and strategy on how to take on the hardest technical interview questions.

    • Friday, March 1st and 8th - Game Development in HTML5 and Javascript

      This will be a two part series on how to get started in writing games on the web. But not the derpy flash games that you grew up on. This will be lean, mean, HTML5 Javascript games that can be played better, faster, and on any browser.

  • HackRU

    USACS will be holding HackRU once more this spring. Expect an over-night programming challenge of epic proportions. With help of local tech-company sponsors we will be eating, hacking, and competing for 24-hours in the Cook Campus Center on March 30th to 31st. Come compete, win prizes, make job connections, build something awesome, and have fun! Details are on HackRU.org

  • Rutgers Tech Meetup

    This semester we will be hosting the first ever Rutgers Tech Meetup. Come and share some of your awesome work with the community, see others demo their work, eat burritos and have fun. Details to follow in the next few weeks.