Want to learn more about Computing? If so we’re the society for you! We are a society aimed at encouraging, mentoring, and bringing together tech enthusiasts of all sorts: people who want to know WHY and HOW the technologies surrounding us really work. Our weekly meetings include challenges of multiple difficulty levels, bootcamps covering topics essential to turning a computing passion into practical skills, tech talks introducing new and trendy Open Source tools to help you out on your journey. Of course we also have social events giving us all a great chance to get to know the rest of Manchester’s Computing community better. We also support and put together teams for the various Hackathons happening in Greater Manchester, which are always a blast! Interested? Come along to our next meeting!
This week the commitee introduced themselves and explained the plans for the society over the coming academic year. We then all went to Atmosphere and enjoyed pizza and one of the famous Computing Society pub quizes!
This week Steve gave an introduction to version control and demonstrated the power of git.
This week Henry got showed everyone the basics of C#. By the end of the session everyone had a functioning calculator. Whilst not the most "interesting" app, it taught everyone the basics of C# and Visual Studio 2015.
This week Sam and Henry ran a workshop about game development in C#. Everyone started with a stripped back version of Space Invaders, and added features to it. By the end of the session everyone knew the basics of game development with C# Windows Form Applications.
This week Bilyana introduced us all to the world of programming challenges with an interactive session where we all got our hands dirty and solved a range of problems, individually and in groups.
With Hack Manchester around the corner, Henry helped answer the age old question, "Just what is a hackathon exactly?". His talk was followed by brainstorming sessions for all the teams from the University of Salford.
This week, everyone was invited to give a short talk about a topic they find interesting. We heard a range of subjects from Hack Manchester enteries, to why we should consider wearing a white poppy as well as a red one.
Sam and Steve talked about their life changing experience at the anual Cyber Security Camp that Salford takes part in each year.
This week was the pilot of the Research@Salford talks planned for the 2017/18 Academic year. Dr Li spoke introduced us all the basics of Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks, and then discussed his research into novelty detection (which is used on the New York stock exchange).