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December 2011

Intermediate/Advanced - Tue 6 - Trinity

• Freedom double feature
  • Going Fully Free — Ben Sturmfels
  • Anti-competitive Aspects of UEFI Secure Boot — Lev Lafayette

Beginners - Sat 17 - The Hub

• Programming Tips, Tricks and Tools for Novices — Alec Clews
  • Summary:
    Learning to program can be a daunting activity. As well as learning a computer language there is a significant amount of other knowledge and information to absorb -- apparently much of it through osmosis. Additionally can also be very hard to organise your objectives and work to reach your end goal.

    This presentation will use real examples and demonstrations to cover some of these topics. Specific tools will be used as illustrations but the ideas will be applicable no matter what tool set is available.

  • Agenda:
    1. Issues with development: e.g. Bugs, tedium, never releasing working product
    2. Useful Processes and Ideas: User Stories, Test Driven Development, Minimal Viable Product
    3. Tools to support the programming process:
       1. Version Control
       2. Using a sophisticated editor. Editors vs. IDEs
       3. Automation of testing and other things
       4. Organising your code and Building software

January 2012

• BBQ

(there are no meetings in January other than the BBQ)

February 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 7th — Trinity

• Why Computer Science Matters — Thomas Conway

  Abstract: A lot of software is easy to make. A small fraction of software requires subtle insight or clever analysis, without which a practical solution is expensive or impossible. Drawing from some of my experience in academia, the commercial software industry, and bioinformatics research, I will discuss a few cases that exemplify this, as well as some of the tools, software and intellectual, that I have used to good effect.

  Bio: viz http://www.nicta.com.au/people/tconway

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

March 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

• Stuart Young. Operating 3D Desktop Printers with Linux

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

April 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

May 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

June 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

July 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

August 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

September 2013

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

• AGM
• lightning talks ??

SFD (in place of Beginners) — Sat Xth — location TBC

October 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

November 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Wed Xth (due to Melbourne Cup) — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

December 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

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