English students in a fifth-year digital literary studies course turned to literature and DIY culture for inspiration to create video games as part of their class. They created two indie games: a campus-based locative app for mobile phones and a 2-D children’s game.
Game programming contests drive student interest, experience and skill—and are putting UVic on the map in the programming world On Saturday, Feb. 20, UVic played host to a virtual battle, attended by over 300 students and developers wanting to test their artificial intelligence programming skills. It was the third annual BattleSnake competition. In the classic arcade game Snake, a player maneuvers a growing “snake” around the computer screen. As the snake grows in size, it becomes more difficult for the player to avoid making the snake run into itself. BattleSnake builds on this simple game: as the snake eats apples, it grows in size. Run into a wall, your own tail, or another snake’s tail and it’s game over. But there’s a competitive aspect to this version: run head-on into another player’s snake and the longer one consumes the shorter one.
UVic’s EcoCAR 2 team of engineering students are not just getting hands-on experience while they study, they’re getting their hands dirty. Since April 2011, close to 40 students in mechanical, electrical, computer and software engineering, and busin…
A University of Victoria post-doctoral student’s efforts to help people with learning and memory problems related to Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive disorders have earned her a $50,000 award. Celina Berg will also have access to office and lab spa…
Armed only with logic, strategy, mental endurance and a single computer, two UVic math and computer science teams marched into a battle of the brains against 24,000 other students and returned triumphant.
A team of UVic students captured third place among all Canadian teams participating in the IEEE 24-hour coding competition in October. Eleven UVic students from computer science, software engineering and electrical engineering, comprising four teams, competed in the worldwide online challenge, which involved 4,000 IEEE student members competing to solve a set of programming problems using C, C++, Java, or other programming languages. The top UVic team, IslandVikingCoders, completed ten problems. The other UVic teams all completed six problems. More: http://bit.ly/c3jHyG
University of Victoria engineering students have ranked second among the Canadian teams in the Pacific Northwest regional portion of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest— the oldest, largest, and…
