Hello all,
Firstly, welcome to all our new members! Several hundred of you signed up over the last three days and we're really looking forward to meeting you all over the coming year. To everyone else, welcome back! We send out a weekly e-mail, but feel free to like us on Facebook.
We've got talks from Google, Palantir, GResearch, Core Filing, Bloomberg, Metaswitch, and Microsoft coming up this term, along with regular geek nights, hackathons, and a LAN party.
Our introductory Python course, Learn to Code, will be back in Hilary.
We'll be hosting our first Geek Night tomorrow at the department with Core War, a competitive assembly game, and next week we'll be writing bots to play the Wikipedia Game.
Please note that the term card states that the Palantir Escape Room is coming up next week, but it has been delayed. We'll post an update on Facebook with a new date soon.
Many thanks,
Thomas and the rest of the committee
Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (0th week)
Geek Night meets Core War: CompSoc will be learning and playing Core War, a classic programming game where players build competing programs to battle over control of a virtual computer.
No experience needed, so join us as we battle for the core.
Bring your own laptop and consider familiarising yourself with the basics beforehand.
http://vyznev.net/corewar/guide.html
Pizza, snacks, and drinks provided.
Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (1st week)
Geek Night meets Wikipedia: In the "Wikipedia Game" you click the random article link and aim for another Wikipedia page in the fewest clicks possible.
We're going to be writing bots to play the game and compete with one another, but without downloading the entirety of Wikipedia.
Bring your own laptop and we'll provide the pizza :).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Game
From Bloomberg, one of our sponsors:
"CodeCon is a live programming contest developed in-house at Bloomberg.
Push your programming and problem solving skills to the limit against the clock to win the title of Bloomberg CodeCon champion against your peers across the UK and Europe!
Your school's top winners will be invited to our Bloomberg CodeCon Global Finals in our London office in January 2017 for a chance to win an amazing prize and compete against the best students from Europe and the US!
Please make sure you register with your university email address and bring your laptop.
The event will take place at Room 051, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QD. Kick-off at 6.30pm, come early to get a seat!
Food and refreshments will be provided!"
To sign up, please click here.
The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page or visit our Website for more information about the society.