Hi everyone,

Next Wednesday, we'll be hosting our first tech talk of the term with *Don Syme of Microsoft Research*, who'll be telling us about F#, Microsoft's functional programming language. A week Saturday, we have the *G-Research Coding Challenge*, where teams will be competing to perform sentiment analysis. Winning team members will win £50 Amazon vouchers! Make sure to register (link below). Tomorrow we will be hosting our usual geek night, when we'll be looking at esoteric programming languages.

If you're interested in participating in a beginner friendly programming challenge, the first round of the *UK/IE Programming Contest* http://ukiepc.info/#home is being hosted in the department *tomorrow*. If you are interested in taking part please contact Nick Hu nick.hu@stcatz.ox.ac.uk. You do not need to register as a team; he can allocate you to a team if need be.

*Edward and the rest of the committee* EventsGeek Night 2 https://www.facebook.com/events/346289525782943

*19:00 Saturday 2nd Week - Undergraduate Social Area*

This week we'll be exploring the weird and wonderful world of esoteric languages. Use languages like Brainfuck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck, Befunge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge or Piet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#Piet - or something of your own devising - to implement fiendishly simple programs like FizzBuzz and the Sieve of Eratosthenes.

Bring your own laptop and we'll provide the pizza. Microsoft tech talk: The F# Path to Relaxation https://www.facebook.com/events/533456163653843

*Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 19:00 Wednesday (Week 3)*

*Abstract:* Born in a lab, matured in the enterprise, and now fully baked as an open-source, cross-platform, professionally-supported language - the F# journey has always been about reconciling the apparently irreconcilable: Functional and Objects, Types and Dynamism, Company and Openness, Linux and Windows, Android and iOS, Programming and Data, GPU and CPU, Async and Sync, Server and Client - F# finds a way. Come along and take a journey with me through the modern programming landscape and the F# approach to research, language design, interoperability, tooling and community.

*Bio:* Don Syme is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, the designer and architect of the F# programming language and an F# community contributor. In 2015 he received the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for his work on programming languages. G-Research Coding Challenge 2018 https://www.facebook.com/events/222378784963112

*Room 051, Department of Computer Science - 18:00 Saturday (Week 3)*

G-Research is a leading quantitative research and technology company. We apply scientific techniques to find patterns in large, noisy and real-world data sets, using the latest statistical and "big data" analysis methodologies to predict global financial markets. Please join us for our annual coding challenge where you will *compete in teams in a series of progressively more difficult sentiment analysis challenges*.

This is a great chance to test your problem solving and coding skills and a *chance to win a £50 Amazon vouchers per team member* (plus prizes for runners up!).

- Where: Oxford Computer Science Department, Room 051 - Date: Saturday 28th October 2017 - When: 18:00-21:00

To take part all you need is at least one laptop per team and have a development environment set up for C#, Java or Python and you must be able to provide your own internet access. Afterwards we will provide food and drinks and a chance for you to talk to our employees informally about internships, graduate roles and life at G-Research!

*To register your interest, please email graduates@gresearch.co.uk graduates@gresearch.co.uk.* You can register alone or as part of a team of up to 4 members, if you register individually you will be allocated a team at the event.

[This event replaces our usual Geek Night. Note that it begins one hour earlier than usual.] ------------------------------

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