Presented by:
Dan Garcia
from
UC Berkeley
<p>Dan Garcia is a Teaching Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He was selected as an ACM Distinguished Educator in 2012 and ACM Distinguished Speaker in 2019, and is a national leader in the "CSforALL" movement, bringing engaging computer science to students normally underrepresented in the field. </p>
<p>Thanks to four National Science Foundation grants, the "Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)" non-majors course he co-developed has been shared with over 800 high school teachers...
The GAMESMAN system is a piece of software 35 years in the making -- it solves board games (2-person abstract strategy games of no chance), builds a database of the value (win, tie, or lose) for every position, and provides users with a GUI to play and analyze them. We recently opened up the API to allow any external client to access our database, so this is a demo of a Snap! program that plays Tic-Tac-Toe perfectly using our back-end as the "brains".
- Duration:
- 5 min
- Room:
- Auditorium (Online)
- Conference:
- Snap!Con 2023
- Type:
- Lightning Talk
- Presented via:
- Online
This session is a part of:
Round 2 of lightning talks!