Hello Everyone!
This newsletter is a little later than usual because there were a few
things which needed to be sorted out beforehand, sorry about that.
Before we dive into events, the CompSoc website now has an *ICS*
calendar file you can import into your calendar software to have all of
our events automatically appear: http://ox.compsoc.net/events.ics
Whenever we change details on our website, this file will also change,
and hopefully the change should be reflected in your calendar software too!
This week we have one of our sponsors *G Research* holding a coding
competition, it will be on Wednesday evening, and as usual pizza and
refreshments will be included.
We also have the second *Learn to Code with OE* event that will be held
on Sunday 3rd November, the details are yet to be added to the website,
the above calendar file and facebook, but will be in due course.
Here are the full gory details of all the events excluding the OE one,
see you later this week!
G-Research Competition
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/g_research_competition/>
Date: Wednesday Week 3 - 30 October 2013 Time: 06:00 PM Facebook Event
<https://facebook.com/events/571539619567991/>Place: Undergraduate
Social Area - Dept. of Computer Science
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_social_area/>Tags: Competition
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/competition/> Corporate
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/corporate/> G-Research
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/gresearch/> Sponsor Event
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/sponsor_event/>
Algorithmic Trading challenge: Can your code beat the markets?
Test your coding skills trading fake money and win real prizes.
G-Research has developed a simulated stock exchange where you can trade
your strategies in competition with other teams. Whose will make the
most money by the end of the session?
You'll be split into teams, given a brief overview of the system and
then have 60 minutes to write your code (in C# - syntax help available)
to trade on our simulated exchange. After that development time, your
code will run in competition with the other teams and the team which
makes the most money will win a £20 Amazon gift voucher for each member.
Please join us on *Wednesday 30th October* in *The Undergraduate Social
Area, at The Department of Computer Science* at *6pm*. The session will
be followed by pizza and refreshments. We will have some of our software
developers on hand to answers questions.
Sign-up is required. To sign up, fill out this online form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1W1NXihhpNZrYvhQkJtN7WTrOW6fmxlSQ1vRspy3PLl…> ASAP;
there is a limit of 40 spots, and members will be given priority.
Learn to Code: Session 3
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/learn_to_code_3/>
Date: Saturday Week 3 - 02 November 2013 Time: 05:00 PM Facebook Event
<https://facebook.com/events/252707428213142/>Place: Room 379 - Dept. of
Computer Science
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_379/>Tags: Learn to Code
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/learn/>
*Note: Remember to bring your laptop to these events!*
About Learn to Code
During these events, there will be a mixture of interactive workshops
and talks. We will be teaching you the basics of programming
using Python <http://www.python.org/>. These events are good if you have
zero coding experience, but they are also valuable if you already have
started coding and would like to better your skills. We also welcome
people who already have good coding experience as the more volunteers
the better!
These events are always followed by our weekly Geek Night
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/geek_night/>.
You can find out more information about this series of events over
at ox.compsoc.net/learn <http://ox.compsoc.net/learn/>
We also have a facebook group for discussion if you are taking part in
this course: fb.com/groups/OXLearnToCode
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/OXLearnToCode/>
...and a group for those who would like to
volunteer: fb.com/groups/OXLearnToCodeHelpers
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/OXLearnToCodeHelpers/>
Geek Night 3
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/geek_night_3/>
Date: Saturday Week 3 - 02 November 2013 Time: 07:00 PM Facebook Event
<https://facebook.com/events/240331446124434/>Place: Undergraduate
Social Area - Dept. of Computer Science
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_social_area/>Tags: Geek
Night <http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/geek_night/>
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Kind Regards,
The CompSoc Committee
Sam Lanning
President - Oxford University Computer Society
president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>
Hey Everyone,
Just a very quick reminder about tonight's event (in case you missed
it). Morgan Stanley will be talking about open source and enterprise
software (and how companies like Morgan Stanley contribute to the open
source community), after which they will be buying pizza for everyone,
and offering to take us all to the pub.
Hope to see many of you there tonight! =)
Morgan Stanley: Open source and the enterprise
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/morgan_stanley_open_source_and…>
Date: Wednesday Week 2 - 23 October 2013 Time: 06:30 PM Facebook Event
<https://facebook.com/events/166643480198101/>Place: Lecture Theatre A -
Dept. of Computer Science
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_lta/>Tags: Corporate
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/corporate/> Talk
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/talk/>
/Note: This event will include pizza and Morgan Stanley will be taking
everyone for drinks afterwards./
This session looks at what it means to be "Enterprise" software: how
open-source can help in large organisations, and vice versa: where are
the benefits in organisations contributing to open-source, using Morgan
Stanley's contributions to open-source as examples. Specific ideas are
presented around how to make software more enterprise friendly, and how
to build an open-source community.
--
Kind Regards,
Sam
Sam Lanning
President - Oxford University Computer Society
president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>
Hi Everyone,
Thank you to everyone who signed up to our mailing list during freshers'
fair. This is the first of a weekly newsletter you will receive. You can
unsubscribe from this list at any time via our website.
First point to make is that we also run a "jobs" mailing list (
http://ox.compsoc.net/members/mailing_lists/), we get a large number of
job advertisement requests (thing freelance work, internal Oxford work,
graduate / internship opportunities etc...), and we will not spam you
with these, but if you are interested in receiving these kind of emails,
feel free to sign up to this list.
Second thing is Events!
This week we have the legendary Jon Skeet (
http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet, *person with the most
reputation in ALL of Stack Overflow*, and author of C# in depth) from
Google coming to give a talk about what it's like to work there.
We also have our first Learn to Code event, all details below.
We look forward to seeing you at our events, if you are interested in
becoming a member, bring £5 with you to the events and we will have
membership signup sheets! =)
*This Week's Events:*
Google: Engineering at Google: it's a little different
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/google_talk/>
Date: Wednesday Week 1 - 16 October 2013 Time: 06:00 PM Facebook Event
<https://facebook.com/events/1418356795049339/>Place: Lecture Theatre A
- Dept. of Computer Science
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_lta/>Tags: Google
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/google/> Corporate
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/corporate/> Sponsor Event
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/sponsor_event/> Talk
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/talk/>
Abstract
Being an engineer at Google is a fantastic experience. Most people know
about some of our perks such as free food and fabulous offices - but
what's the work like? How does it compare with other environments? I've
been at Google for just over five years, with about ten years of
industry experience before that, so I've seen a bit of both sides. In
this talk I'll try to address four questions:
* What challenges are particular to Google (and other companies of
similar scale) which don't affect most environments?
* What challenges faced by smaller companies simply aren't a problem
at Google?
* Where does software engineering still have significant issues which
hurt everyone, regardless of scale?
* How can you get ahead of the game as a software engineer?
Bio
*Jon Skeet* is a Senior Software Engineer in Google's London office,
where he's worked on Mobile Sync, Mobile Notifications, Windows Phone 7
Google Search App, and Google Offers. Beyond Google, he's better known
for his is involvement in the C# community and particularly the Stack
Overflow Q&A site. Jon has a maths degree and a diploma in computer
science from "the other place."
Learn to Code: Session 1
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/learn_to_code_1/>
Date: Saturday Week 1 - 19 October 2013 Time: 05:00 PM Facebook Event
<https://facebook.com/events/597450513633816/>Place: Undergraduate
Social Area - Dept. of Computer Science
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_social_area/>Tags: Committee
Speaker <http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/committee_speaker/> Talk
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/talk/> Learn to Code
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/learn/>
This is the first event in our Learn to Code series!
*Note: Remember to bring your laptop to these events!*
About Learn to Code
During these events, there will be a mixture of interactive workshops
and talks. We will be teaching you the basics of programming
using Python <http://www.python.org/>. These events are good if you have
zero coding experience, but they are also valuable if you already have
started coding and would like to better your skills. We also welcome
people who already have good coding experience as the more volunteers
the better!
These events are always followed by our weekly Geek Night
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/geek_night/>.
You can find out more information about this series of events over
at ox.compsoc.net/learn <http://ox.compsoc.net/learn/>
We also have a facebook group for discussion if you are taking part in
this course: fb.com/groups/OXLearnToCode
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/OXLearnToCode/>
...and a group for those who would like to
volunteer: fb.com/groups/OXLearnToCodeHelpers
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/OXLearnToCodeHelpers/>
Geek Night 1
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/geek_night_1/>
Date: Saturday Week 1 - 19 October 2013 Time: 07:00 PMTags: Geek Night
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/geek_night/>
--
Kind Regards,
Sam
Sam Lanning
President - Oxford University Computer Society
president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>
Hello Everyone!
Welcome back to Oxford! We hope you have had a great summer, and are
well refreshed ready for the year ahead. And we hope those of you not in
studying any more have a great summer none the less and are settling
into your careers nicely.
First things first, we have a new website!!! You can check it out at:
http://ox.compsoc.net/. There is still lots of work that needs to be
done to it, but we have made that oh-so-difficult leap to actually
implementing enough of it to switch over.
Second thing, Events!
This term is set to be a big one! With 3 events per week, we have plenty
to keep you on your toes. Along with our usual wednesday evening events,
we have our weekly "Geek Nights" which proved a success last year, and
we're introducing a "Learn to Code" Course which will be held directly
before the Geek Nights.
You can see the full termcard here:
http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/
And learn more about "Learn to Code" here: http://ox.compsoc.net/learn/
For the time being, before 1st week commences, we have a Geek Night on
Week 0
Geek Night 0
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/geek_night_0/>
Date: Saturday Week 0 - 12 October 2013 Time: 07:00 PM Facebook Event
<https://facebook.com/events/1398157007083334/>Place: Undergraduate
Social Area - Dept. of Computer Science
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_social_area/>Tags: Geek
Night <http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/geek_night/>
And the first main event is in 1st week and is a talk from Google:
Google: Engineering at Google: it's a little different
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/google_talk/>
Date: Wednesday Week 1 - 16 October 2013 Time: 06:00 PM Facebook Event
<https://facebook.com/events/1418356795049339/>Place: Lecture Theatre A
- Dept. of Computer Science
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_lta/>Tags: Google
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/google/> Corporate
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/corporate/> Sponsor Event
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/sponsor_event/> Talk
<http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/talk/>
Abstract
Being an engineer at Google is a fantastic experience. Most people know
about some of our perks such as free food and fabulous offices - but
what's the work like? How does it compare with other environments? I've
been at Google for just over five years, with about ten years of
industry experience before that, so I've seen a bit of both sides. In
this talk I'll try to address four questions:
* What challenges are particular to Google (and other companies of
similar scale) which don't affect most environments?
* What challenges faced by smaller companies simply aren't a problem
at Google?
* Where does software engineering still have significant issues which
hurt everyone, regardless of scale?
* How can you get ahead of the game as a software engineer?
Bio
Jon Skeet is a Senior Software Engineer in Google's London office, where
he's worked on Mobile Sync, Mobile Notifications, Windows Phone 7 Google
Search App, and Google Offers. Beyond Google, he's better known for his
is involvement in the C# community and particularly the Stack Overflow
Q&A site. Jon has a maths degree and a diploma in computer science from
"the other place."
We hope to see many of you at the upcoming events, and good luck for the
year!
P.S: Keep an eye out for us at re-freshers' fair ;-)
--
Best Wishes,
The CompSoc Committee
Sam Lanning
President - Oxford University Computer Society
president(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:president@ox.compsoc.net>
