Organizing and Embedding a Library Hackfest Into a 1st Year Course

摘要

What do libraries represent and do hackers belong in libraries? The Steacie Science and Engineering Library, York University hosted its second annual Steacie Library Dungeon Hackfest, February 19-20, 2014 (http://www.library.yorku.ca/steaciehackfest)to continue to discover the role that libraries have in hosting hackfests. Hackfests are marathon events that bring computer programmers together with other researchers to build apps, widgets, websites, or other software projects. Also known as hackathons, codefests, or codeathons, hackfests are increasing in popularity across major computer science and engineering schools in which the departments hosts the event. Recently, the trend of hackers in the library is becoming more prevalent, as observed at Computers in Libraries annual conference(http://www.infotoday.com/cil2014/). This year, the Steacie Library with the Computer Science department decided to embed the Steacie Hackfest into a first year computer science course in which students received a grade for participating.