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/