Coding for Honeypots and Museums: Code+ Program Allows Students to Engage in Real-World Computer Problem-Solving

It’s one thing to sit in a computer science class all semester and learn about programming and problem-solving. But it’s quite another to find yourself knee-deep in creating an app designed to eliminate the need for students to stand in long lines to pick up their packages at the Duke Student Mailbox Center.

That’s just one of the many things that 58 students are learning as part of a 10-week summer program dubbed Code+.

The program began in 2018 as a single summer project with six