KU Engineering Students Craft ‘Simulearn’ App to Win Kc Fed Code-A-Thon
Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Home Assistant all make it easy for users to turn on lights, track grocery lists, automate climate controls and handle other relatively mindless home tasks that take up time and attention.
Now, a group of University of Kansas engineering students has written an app to help anyone learn the actual computing language that could one day help people program their own devices.
And they did it all in 30 hours.
The five students, all sophomores in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, created the app as part of this year’s Kansas City Fed Code-A-Thon, organized by the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. The team finished first among 18 teams from regional colleges who competed over two days to achieve a common goal: help someone learn code and use it in their everyday life.