Hi everyone,

This week, David North of CoreFiling will be introducing us continuous deployment: how you can release product as soon as changes are made, not just every six months. This week's Learn to Code session will on lists, strings and using functions. The week ends with our usual Geek Night.

Outside of CompSoc, Entrepreneur First are hosting a drinks event at The Jam Factory where they'll be demystifying the tech startup scene. Microsoft's student partners are hosting two workshops on cloud computing with Azure and computer vision. If you're itching for a chance to stretch your webdev skills, The Oxford Student is seeking a developer to modernise and revamp their website.

Have a great week,

Edward and the rest of the committee

Events

Tech talk with CoreFiling: Continuous deployment

19:00 Wednesday 4th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science

David North will talk about CoreFiling’s journey from product releases every six weeks, to every two weeks, to every week, and finally to a continuous deployment process where changes to our web apps can go live within hours of coding and testing being completed. He’ll talk about both the technology that made it possible, and the business processes and challenges involved.

Learn to Code 3: Loops and functions

19:00 Thursday 4th Week – Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science

In the third session we're going to continue looking at while loops by building a number guessing game before learning how to write your own functions. Like this second session, much of the session will require you to work on a laptop, so we highly recommend taking one.

Geek Night 4

19:00 Saturday 4th Week – Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science

Bring your laptop for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding and a selection of food and drink.

Sponsor notices

Evening with Entrepreneur First

17:00 Monday 4th Week – The Jam Factory, Hollybush Row, 27 Park End Street, OX1 1HU

You are warmly invited to attend a free evening at the Jam Factory, complete with free drinks and snacks, hosted by Entrepreneur First, to find out more about the exciting opportunities available at EF.

Entrepreneur First are coming to Oxford, to demystify the exciting world of technology entrepreneurship! Europe's leading startup builder, EF's mission is to build the world's most important companies, by supporting ambitious individuals to build tech startups from scratch. Its uniqueness is that you don't need a team or idea to join the programme, just pure talent! EF supports you to find a co-founder, build a team, develop your idea, and secure funding. Around 80–100 talented individuals join every cohort, and applications are currently open for the next programme; come along to see if its for you!

Microsoft Azure Functions & Computer Vision Workshops

Oxford Microsoft Student Partners are running two coding workshops next week on the exciting topics of cloud computing and computer vision.

All events are free with pizzas, drinks, Microsoft swag and more; you get $100 worth of Azure credit simply by turning up to one of our workshops! On Azure, you can make apps that recognise images and speech, set up bots that understand what you say, or build and train your own machine learning model.

Azure Functions Workshop

19:10–20:30, Tuesday 5th Week – Lecture Room 1, Christ Church

Do you want to have image processing for your IoT device, or manage bots to run scheduled tasks? Want to learn the fastest way to get your JavaScript code running online?

Azure Functions is a great solution for processing data, integrating systems, working with the internet-of-things (IoT), and building simple APIs and microservices.

Computer Vision Workshop – learn to code AI powered apps

19:10–20:30, Friday 5th Week – Lecture Room 1, Christ Church

Do you want to make your own AI powered app but don't know where to begin? We are running a workshop that teaches you exactly how to make your app "see the world"! We will walk you through how to start using Microsoft Computer Vision and Custom Vision APIs, and at the end of the day, let you train your own image recognition model!

Other notices

Web developer sought by The Oxford Student

We’re looking to build a new website, and we need someone with coding expertise and web design experience to help us with this. The position would entail designing and setting up a new website for the newspaper where we can publish articles and videos to our audience. Our current website receives an average of 1,000 hits per month but is slow and outdated, and we’re hoping to massively improve our online presence this term so having a well-designed and fast website is something we’d really value.

The role would be for this term, and would involve working alongside our team to ensure our content is represented in the best way possible.

Like all in student journalism, the role is unpaid but is a great opportunity to get some experience and exposure of your work, and to meet new people.

Applications should be send to mailto:editor@oxfordstudent.com with the title ‘Website application’, and should consist of a brief (100–200 words) outline of relevant experience and plans for the new website.

Penny Young Editor-in-Chief, The Oxford Student

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.