Hi Everyone,

Our main event this week is a URL Riddle Competition hosted by Bank of America. There will of course be pizza and refreshments, and there will also be amazon gift vouchers awarded to the winning team.

All the details are below.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch - URL Riddle Competition

http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/baml_url_riddle_competition/ Date: Thursday Week 6 - 21 November 2013 Time: 07:00 PM Facebook Event https://facebook.com/events/521247684637767/Place: Undergraduate Social Area - Dept. of Computer Science http://ox.compsoc.net/events/venue/compsci_social_area/Tags: Bank of America http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/boaml/ Corporate http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/corporate/ Competition http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/competition/ Sponsor Event http://ox.compsoc.net/events/tags/sponsor_event/

*Note: This event is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday!*

One of our sponsors, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, will be hosting a *URL Riddle* competition with us. This is a game in which teams aim to solve various riddles by writing small and simple snippets of code.

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Each riddle is presented as a challenge on a webpage, for which the solution acts as the URL for the next riddle.

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Some of the riddles are timed and players must submit an answer to a randomly generated question within a given timeframe.

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The game is competitive, and team rankings will be tracked on a leaderboard.

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The winning team will receive Amazon gift vouchers.

*Please bring your laptops to this event!*

As per usual, there will be pizza and drinks at this event.

Learn to Code: Session 6

http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/learn_to_code_6/ Date: Saturday Week 6 - 23 November 2013 Time: 05:00 PM Facebook Event https://facebook.com/events/613967845334186/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 6

http://ox.compsoc.net/events/2013/michaelmas/geek_night_6/ Date: Saturday Week 6 - 23 November 2013 Time: 07:00 PM Facebook Event https://facebook.com/events/585455791504372/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/