| 1st Week |
Thursday
29th April
8:00pm
Jesus College
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Knit 1, PERL 1 - Introduction to Perl
PERL is a powerful and flexible programming language with string
manipulation at its core. This term we intend to cover some of its many
uses. John Ireland casts on with an introduction to this swiss army
knife of programming languages.
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| 2nd Week |
Wednesday
5th May
8:00pm
Comlab
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GUI I - The Basics
In the first of our GUI application programming talks, Tristam
Fenton-May gives a general introduction to the basic ideas behind GUI
application design and implementation.
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Thursday
6th May
8:30pm
Keble
|
Natural Language Processing
AND Data is a leading electronic data publishing company, and have
generously offered to sponsor a talk on the computer manipulation of
language data.
Simon Cozens will chair a panel of computational linguists to discuss
current issues and trends in language processing.
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| 3rd Week |
Wednesday
12th May
8:00pm
Jesus
|
LaTeX Intro
Andrew Jackson presents a basic introduction to LaTeX, the typesetting
language. He'll cover enough to get you started using this flexible tool
and possibly also a few of the more advanced capabilities of LaTeX.
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Thursday
13th May
8:00pm
OUCS
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Perl II
As the second talk revolving around the theme of Perl this term Simon
Cozens goes into some details about more advanced things you can do with
Perl and CGI.
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| 4th Week |
Thursday
20th May
8:00pm
Jesus
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GUI II - Swing
Tim Needham introduces most of the major pre-built swing components,
discusses MVC architechure, heavyweight and lightweight components and
event dispatching. If we're lucky he'll grace this technical talk with a
few examples.
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| 5th Week |
Wednesday
26th May
8:30pm
Comlab
|
IBM
Ian Parkinson and Ewan Withers, two ex-Oxford students, come to talk
about life in the real world (or as close as IBM gets). Hopefully
they'll also tell us a bit about IBM's involvment with Java and Linux.
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Saturday
29th May
3:00pm
The River
Magdalen Bridge
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Punting
CompSoc's annual excursion to the river. Rained off last year, but the
current committee are planning a weather dance to ensure it actually
happens this time. Anyone who can book a college punt should get in
contact with us via committee@ox.compsoc.net so we can try and work out
numbers.
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| 6th Week |
Wednesday
2nd June
8:00pm
Trinity Computer
Room
|
GUI III - GTK
Tristam Fenton-May returns to give the last of our GUI application
programming talks. This will be a hands on session with GTK. You'll
need a basic knowledge of C to get the most out of this event.
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| 7th Week |
Thursday
10th June
8:30pm
Comlab
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PERL III
Malcolm Beattie wraps up this terms PERL theme by talking about using it
to develop real applications rather than just CGI. He'll be covering
some or all of the following: Refs, OO programming, DBI for SQL
databases and a bit of performance tuning.
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Friday
11th June
7:00pm
Keble
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TGM and annual dinner
The new committee's first termly general meeting. Come along and air
your views about how well they're doing (and how much better than the
old committee they are ;). Followed by the annual CompSoc dinner.
The dinner venue will be announced closer to the date.
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| 8th Week |
Thursday
Venue
to be
decided
|
CompSoc Barbecue
A relaxing way to end the term. Food will be provided, please bring
your own liquid refreshment. If you have any special dietary
requirements, please inform the committee beforehand.
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