Motivating CS Majors Using Real-World Data, Games and Visualizations

Using BRIDGES

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Activities

A Quick Look at a BRIDGES Program : Building an IMDB Graph

What we would give students:

• BRIDGES IMDb tutorial

• BRIDGES Graph tutorial

• BRIDGES GraphAdjList Doxygen

• BRIDGES DataSource Doxygen

What we expect them to produce:

• Demo code

Making it real, interactive, and visual

Data Source:

• USGS Earthquake tutorial
• OpenStreetMap map tutorial
• Genius' Song Lyrics tutorial

Visualization:

• Binary Search Tree tutorial
• Linked List tutorial
• ColorGrid tutorial
• Game tutorial

A Tour of BRIDGES

Have a look at BRIDGES assignment repository.

Some curated examples:

• Repetition in Lyrics
  • Viz C++ scaffold Java Scaffold Python scaffold
• Indexing Earthquakes
  • Viz C++ scaffold Java Scaffold Python scaffold
• Bacon Number
  • Viz C++ scaffold Java Scaffold Python scaffold
• Dijkstra in Your City
  • Viz C++ scaffold Java Scaffold Python scaffold
• Image Representation/Compression
  • Viz C++ scaffold Java Scaffold Python scaffold

All dataset supported by BRIDGES

Workshops

BRIDGES 3-day Workshops (Summer '22)

Survey

Project Survey