![]() ![]() Wang said that while the coding of the application was simple, she found that it was the little things that took up the most time. Taking CS 1101 with Professor Dan Arena last semester affirmed my passion for computers.” “But I’m a huge gamer, so I always tried to find ways to circumvent that, and coding proved very useful. “My mom never let me play games when I was younger, she would supervise my computer usage and periodically change the computer’s password,” Wang said. She said that her mother’s hesitation to allow her access to technology as a child is what spurred her passion for coding. Rising sophomore Austin Wang, a double-major in Philosophy and Computer Science, was inspired by VandyHacks and the infamously challenging housing process to create her extension. Instead of having to manually navigate through Vanderbilt’s different websites to figure out if Rand is open, this gives you immediate access to the only parts of the home site you really care about. All it takes is one click of the black and white school logo in your taskbar to access direct hyperlinks to YES, your email, your registered courses, the Student Housing Portal, dining locations and hours, the COVID-19 Return To Campus plan, Brightspace and the Library website. Vandy Links organizes eight of your most-frequented Vanderbilt sites into one convenient location. Vandy Links Vandy Links, an extension that organizes your most-frequented Vanderbilt sites in one place, as seen on the Chrome Web Store. Hoffman said that he feels having that development experience helped him land his internship at Microsoft and eventually reach his current position as a Software Engineer at Asurion. “Plus, YES is quite outdated, so building anything on top of it took some extra effort.” “I had to Google almost everything because I had no idea what I was doing, and if you look at the code, it is quite apparent,” Hoffman said. Creating this extension is what spurred his interest, leading him to change his major to Computer Science and continue on to pursue a Masters in the subject as well. Hoffman said he had only taken a single computer science course before developing the app. I wanted something that could just give me a schedule that fit all the classes I want in there without having to organize it myself.” “Lab sections are especially frustrating. ![]() “I was tired of having to go between pages and manually check if a potential class works with my schedule or what class I need to drop to fit it in,” Hoffman said. This popular and handy tool was developed by Quinton Hoffman (B.S./M.S.‘20) after experiencing firsthand the tedious routine of registering for classes. This allows you to immediately check your professor’s Rate My Professor rating out of five by looking towards the right hand side of the listings in your cart. Moreover, the Scheduler adopted Rate My Vandy Professors, a separate extension released in 2016 by Jamal Pace (B.S. Vandy students are also all-too-familiar with the 8 AM rush on registration day to enroll in classes- this extension relieves that stress by offering a “One-Click Enroll” button that automatically commits all of the classes in your cart. Students can easily exchange classes with conflicting times and flip between potential schedule options to pick the layout that best suits them. Vandy Scheduler is your one-stop solution to everything “registration.” It organizes all of the Vanderbilt classes in your YES cart into draft schedules for the upcoming semester before you have to commit to a full registration. Vandy Scheduler (with adoption of Rate My Vandy Professors) Vandy Scheduler as seen on the Google Chrome Web Store. Read on to learn more about some of the extensions you can find on the Chrome Web Store, and get to know the forward-thinkers who created them along the way. Luckily, we have our talented student body to turn to who develop Google Chrome extensions that make navigating Vanderbilt’s web resources and platforms much easier. Students at Vanderbilt know that while our school is accredited for its upstanding education and resources, faculty has dropped the bar in terms of creating an easy-to-navigate website.
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