We have 2 sponsor talks this week, as well as our usual geek night. We'd also like to draw your attention to the TGM happening in Week 5; where we will be discussing and voting on any motions the society puts forward.
Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Wednesday (3rd week)
Our first talk of the week will be from BAML, covering a variety of topics: AngularJS
+ Bootstrap, Why Angular? Why Bootstrap?, Simple
Bootstrap webpage, AngularJS Modules (Controllers, Services and Factories), AngularJS
Routing, AngularJS Views (Directives), AngularJS
Best Practices. There are a dew recommended pre-requisites for the talk, although anyone is welcome to come along: JS
(scopes, prototype objects), HTML5 (basics and the syntax), CSS (basics and the syntax), Some
understanding on how web works
Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Thursday (3rd week)
Grads In Games is operated by Aardvark Swift, leading graduate recruiters for the video games and digital entertainment market. ??Grads
In Games improves the link between the games industry and academia, providing studio-backed guidance to both students looking to break into the industry, as well as to the universities on how to best help their students achieve their goals.
Geek Night 3
Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (3rd week)
Our third geek night of term. Come along for the usual chatting, games, coding and refreshments.
Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Wednesday (4th week)
Netcraft are running a workshop where you can learn how to find networking vulnerabilities in apps used by millions of people. Bring
your own laptop, phone or tablet to take part. Netcraft has discovered a large number of Android & IOS apps which do not implement SSL certificate validation correctly
– allowing an attacker to carry out a ‘man-in-the-middle attack’, where they place themselves between the app and the real server. We will give a short tutorial outlining
and illustrating the concept, followed by a hands-on competition to see who can MitM the apps used by the largest number of people in the time available. Netcraft staff will be available when you want
help. Food & drinks will be provided.
UGSA - 7:00pm Wednesday (5th week)
Our termly general meeting is the chance for the committee to report our progress to members, and for members to vote and submit motions to influence the direction
of the society. All are welcome to attend but you must be a member to submit or vote on actions.
Please submit any questions or motions to the committee at committee@ox.compsoc.net.
Cameron Alsop
President - Oxford University Computer Society