#!SUITSSydney University IT Society

On Sunday 29th August SUITS is inviting you to a competition to pit your skill in coding against each other in a warm up programming competition for the annual South Pacific regional programming competition.

In teams of at most three you will be given 9 problems and one computer and your task as a team will be to code solutions to as many of the problems you can in the languages of java/c/c++ In a race against the clock and the other usyd teams to see if you can code the solution!

If you want to see what kind of problems you will see, take a look at this site of the ACM competition from last year: http://www.sppcontest.org//2009/Problems2009.html

The competition will held in room 117 of SIT and start at 12.00 noon and run until 5 pm.

If you have a team of 3 people who want to compete or if you want to compete but don’t have any team mates please register your interest with Tarek, tarek.elgindy AT gmail.com, and we’ll add you to the list of competitors.

SUITS Hack sessions will continue next semester! It has been great to have a weekly tutorial/discussion forum and the response from you guys has been very positive!

So now we’re looking for more presenters, namely YOU!

The bueaty of SUITS Hack Sessions is that you can literally present on anything (IT/Tech Related) that your passionate about and would like to share that knowledge with other students.

For example this semester we had Programming Theory Tutorials, Multi-Touch Demos, LaTeX demos and more!

How to apply:

1. Think of a subject your passionate about and would like to talk about. You DONT have to a professional but obviously should know something about that area
2. Work out the time; if you would like the full hour (it goes really quick if you presenting on something you know!) or just 30min
3. Email James at jale4381 AT uni dot sydney dot edu dot au

Also stay tuned for videos form this semester. We’re also looking into streaming each hack session live online!

SUITS Exec 2010

4th May – Google Code Jam

Google Code Jam 2010 Programming Training with Stephen Merity

11th May – LaTeX

LaTeX is a professional document presentation language. Its used by many professional publishing houses as well as being the standard for formatting science documents. Georgina Wilcox will give us a brief introduction and tutorial.

18th May – Programming Problems and Theory

Stephen Merity continues the Programming Comp training and looks into some interesting programming problems and theories.

25th May – PyMT

Ever wanted to know how to create your own multi-touch interface? Maybe want to have a go at creating a rival Microsoft Surface?(Although SIT Research groups have already done similar). Come and learn and play around with a DIY Multi-touch Surface interface built with Python and presented by Ben Talyor.

1st June – Google Code Jam Results

Stephen Merity Talks results from the Google Code Jam Competition Round 1 and a general discussion on future competitions and round 2.Everyone Welcome.

Next Semester we are looking for more student presenters! If you have something you would like to present please email James, jale4381 AT uni.sydney.edu.au

Would you be interested in attending one of our future lunchtime discussion and programming sessions? Then fill out the poll below and vote for when you would like it to be on!

Lunchtime Hack Sessions will be causal hour presentations which will start after mid-semester break. The topics? YOU DECIDE! We have some SUITS exec who will be presenting on languages such as Python, Programming theory while others who want to talk about Game-Mods and Hardware!

Would you like to present something? Hardware over-clocking, software, iphone/android apps or anything IT related and interesting? If so email James jale4381 AT uni.sydney.edu.au

Some sessions will be programming training and theory for those interested in practicing interesting algorithms and problems for competitions such as the ACM International Programming Contest and Google Code Jam. Anyone is invited to join and this will also give you a legs up for Algorithms next semester if you’re in second year!

Google Code Jam is an individual programming competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time in any language they want. The ACM International Programming Contest is a group based competition where programmers work together in either C, C++, Java or Haskell to solve problems against the clock.

SUITS Spotlight Lecture: Google Tech Talk – Tuesday

Google will be talking about Go and Wave tomorrow! All SUITS Members should come along to what will be a very fun and interesting night.
To attend: To help us anticipate numbers, please register your interest at: http://bit.ly/9Taz6n
Carslaw Lecture Theatre 273, 4 – 6pm
Tech talk will be one hour followed by pizza social and a Python Robots Hands-on Tutorial.

SUITS Social: Boardgames and Card games! – SIT Boardroom, from 5pm

This Thursday from 5pm SUITS Social Night will feature a theme of board and card games! We invite ALL Students, members and international-students to come take part. Games will include Poker, Roulette, Chinese Chess and Majiong and more! – There will also be Food and free drinks available

BBQ All-you-can-eat – SIT Lawns, from 12:30pm, Thursday 25th March

Every Thursday! $1 members all you can eat. Best on Campus, hands down!

Altassian Graduate Presentation – Electrical Eng Lec 1, 1-2pm, Thursday 25th March

Thursday 25th March;
When: Wednesday 24th March at 1pm
Where: Electrical Engineering Lecture Room 1
What: Grads @ Atlassian
The Right Stuff – Matt Ryall gives an insight into why working at Atlassian is different from other jobs you may find as an IT graduate.
A Grad’s Eye View – Seb Ruiz talks about his personal experience coming on board and working as a graduate developer at Atlassian
Tips & Tricks – Robyn Munro talks about the graduate recruitment process for 2011 intake and what we look for in our graduates.

Programming Comp Expressions of Interest:

If you’re interested in practicing interesting algorithms and problems for competitions such as the ACM International Programming Contest and Google Code Jam register your interest in the poll below.  This will also give you a legs up for Algorithms next semester if you’re in second year.
Google Code Jam is an individual programming competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time in any language they want. The ACM International Programming Contest is a group based competition where programmers work together in either C, C++, Java or Haskell to solve problems against the clock.