Past AECC Activities
Arduino Workshop
This workshop introduced some beginner topics on Arduino and allowed them to tinker with some Arduino
kits. The workshop was presented by member, Bryan Pesquera.
May 9, 2018
Github Introductory Workshop
This workshop presented attendants with introductory knowledge on the usage of git and github.
Presented by Prof. Humberto Ortiz.
May 16, 2018
Machine Learning Interest Groups Weekly Meetings
This year we created a committee for a machine learning interest groups. This group held weekly meetings
and covered topics such as linear regressions, data science tools, deep learning, and more.
All meetings were lead by President Jeffrey Chan.
Weekly meetings starting on January, 2017
CCOM 3033: Tutoring Sessions
We held two tutoring sessions to prepare students of the CCOM3033: Introduction to Programming
course for their midterm.
April 23, 2018 and April 25, 2018
Undergraduate Research Opportunities at our CS Department
Here our Computer Science Department Faculty gave a brief overview of their research work to
students taking the Computer Science Seminar course and any other attendants. They stated whether
they were looking for students for their projects.
September 4, 2017
Introduction to the Shell & Using a Terminal
We repeated this workshop for the benefit of that year's freshmen. In this workshop we covered basic
terminal usage, key concepts encountered when dealing with UNIX scripting, and a short example of a
useful script. We focused on details of bash and why it's important to at least be familiar
with these skills. The workshop was led by Vice President Alejandro Vega.
December 20, 2017
Introduction to Shell Scripting
In this workshop we covered basic terminal usage, key concepts encountered when dealing with UNIX scripting,
and a short example of a useful script. We focused on details of bash and why it's important to at least be familiar
with these skills. The workshop was led by Board Member Alejandro Vega, and President José Reyes.
March 16, 2017
A Brief Guide to Collegiate Technical Interviews
In this workshop we covered techniques and approaches necessary to ace the technical interviews all of our members will
encounter at some point in their career. This workshop was led by ex-President Jonathan Medina.
February 9, 2017
Hour of Code UPRRP 2017
AECC-UPRRP and #include<girls> collaborated to host an Hour of Code activity during Computer Science Education week.
We talked about our organizations, computer science, and why programming is important in our modern lives. We also brought
some graduates from our department to encourage the participants by talking about how far they have gotten thanks to
Computer Science. We covered some tutorials from code.org and some tutorials of our own
in python and javascript. The workshop was led by Vice-President Israel Dilán, President José Reyes, and Board Member Alejandro Vega.
December 8, 2016
Intro to Virtual and Augmented Reality
In this workshop we covered the history of VR/AR, the recent rise of VR/AR, and tools and products our members
can use to get involved in VR/AR development. We used a-frame to do a quick workshop
about webVR. This workshop was led by Pedro Cruz from Rokai Labs.
November 30, 2016
Blockchain Gauntlet
Here we covered blockchain technologies, bitcoin, the projects where these technologies are being used, and how our
members could benefit and get involved. This workshop was led by José Montero, an AECC member.
November 17, 2016
Introduction to Linux
In this workshop we covereded Linux, FOSS, the ubiquity of Linux, common Linux distros, Desktop Environments, Window Managers, package managers, the Linux filesystem, common keyboard shortcuts, common shell commands, piping, and redirection. The workshop was led by José Reyes, 2016-2017 President, and Alejandro Vega, 2016-2017 Board Member.
October 11, 2016
Unity September
In this two part workshop we covered the Unity game engine basics the first event and advanced topics in the second event. In the first event we covered player stats, player movement, asset usage, player actions, etc. In the second event we covered Virtual Reality, game progression, items, multiplayer, camera angles, etc. The first workshop was led by Carlo Rodríguez Penney, a UPR-RP ex-alumnus and ex-AECC member, from Batú Games. The second event was led by Arturo, a tech evangelist from Unity. This was the first event of it's kind and size (over 100 attendants) by Unity in Puerto Rico.
Unity Basics: September 7, 2016
Unity VR September 15, 2016
Starting your Career in Silicon Valley
Our guest speaker Leonard Hinton came to talk to our members about some of the more business oriented topics our members will encounter in their future professional careers. Some of the topics covered were: startup culture, creating your own startup, common mistakes, and more. Leonard also offered a Q/&A session for our members which focused mostly on his experience on doing business in PR
August 25, 2016
Introduction to Programming/Hacking
Our first conference of the year focused on introducing first year students to the AECC, ACM, programming, hacking, what we do at our major, and what you can do with a CS degree. We also showed the students some quick differences between languages, a quick code demo, and some resources to start learning programming.
August 18, 2016
Basic Android App Workshop
Introductory Workshop for developing Android applications by Josó de la Vega y Luis Albertorio. The workshop covered creating your first Android application (a simple Fahrenheit to Celsius app) and basic usage of the Android Studio IDE
February 11, 2016
Unity Workshop
Workshop about the Unity game engine by recent graduates of our university who founded their own game development company (Batú Games). The workshop dealt with creating your first simple game using unity and a bit of C# coding. The workshop also covered basic game development concepts such as camera angles, texture, objects, polygons, etc.
Introduction to iOS development
Conference about iOS app development by Axel Rivera. In this conference we covered the fundamentals of iOS development, why consider iOS, pricing, etc.
October 1, 2015
Git and Twilio Workshop
Introductory Workshop about Git, a version control system, and how to use it. The workshop also covered the usage of Twilio's API by Alfredo Valles and our ex-president, Jonathan Medina. We quickly covered some basic terminal commands as background material before getting into the usage of git commands and how to create and maintain your own repo. We also covered the use of the Twilio API and what you can do with it.
September 16, 2015.
Basic QT Workshop
Basic workshop about the QT IDE by Luis Albertorio. In this workshop we covered the basics of working with the qt IDE which is used in the introduction to programming course with C++ at our university. We also covered the functionality of the QT IDE and what it can offer to students.
August 26, 2015