Upcoming & Past Events

Programming Style Class
September 13, 2009
Rafal Radulski

Whenever you write code, other people will read it. It's true in the classroom, at EDT, and with any commercial or "just for fun" project. It means that your code must to be readable. It also needs to be usable, testable, changeable, and fixable. Seems obvious, or is it?

Next Thursday, September 17, you will have a chance to learn the ABC's of clean code. You will see how to name variable, what a good function is, and how to comment source code. This won't be a class on software architecture, but a basic introduction to the art of programming - the first step to better software.

Introduction to Linux - Second Computer Science Class
September 8, 2009
mbyrne

This Thursday September 10th, our CS team will be hosting an introduction to Linux taught by Nick S. and assisted by Matt B. This class will cover a demonstration of how to install Linux as well as cover some basic commands. It is highly suggested that anyone interested in programming this year attend.

We will meet at the shop at around 5:20pm and we will leave promptly at 5:30pm. The class will last until around 6:15pm and then a short 10 minute meeting will occur afterward.

Matthew Byrne
EDT CS Team Captain

First Programming Lecture
September 2, 2009
Rafal Radulski

On Thursday, September 3rd, Jaspreet is going to present a lecture titled GPGPU Programming. It will be a presentation on how graphics card can be used for general purpose, numerical calculation.

Why would you ever need that?

Today's graphics card have hundreds of powerful, generic, parallel processors. In some cases, they can offer performance 10s, 100s, or 1000s times of the CPU. In a way, a graphics card is like a little super-computer, which YOU can buy for under $200. They are perfect for processing images, analyzing massive amounts of data and performing simulation. They are used today to predict climate changes, simulate biological molecules, power next generation of MRI scanners, enhance X-Ray imaging, and much more.

If you want to learn more about GPGPU programming, come and listen to Jaspreet's presentation. It will be held at 5:30 pm, September 3rd, at the shop.

Highschool Outreach
January 18, 2009
Jonathan Wrightsell

EDT will be organizing its 2nd annual high school engineering out reach event....

Engr. 100 Lecture

Date: March 31 & April 2, 2008
Time: 2:00pm
Place: Lecture Center D1