Best of Comp

As a teaching assistant, I wanted to show the work students had done beyond the assignment requirements.

The first website from early 2020 was recieved very positively by students, many of them citing the accolades of being featured on the site and shouted out in the final lecture as what gave them the confidence to pursue more ambitious opportunities in computer science.

In later semesters, I started the tradition of showing off the previous class’s top projects to inspire the next batch of students. Each semester would aim to raise the bar and outdo the last.

Matching the energy of the students, I’d aim to raise the bar on the project website too: first with animation, then with tournament grading, TA positions for top project makers, and more.

I hope the “best of comp” tradition lasts beyond my time at McGill, and that these student projects make more people want to build carefully.