Rather Useful Programme Autumn 2013
/We are back with a slightly changed logo (it is now orange) and a packed programme of events for this semester.
October 16th | Making Things in 3D - See a 3D printer in action and find out how you can use Python to make 3D designs from your software |
October 23rd | A Byte or Two of Raspberry Pi - Getting started with Python and your Raspberry Pi - Making a Raspberry Pi Arcade Coffee Table |
October 30th | Creating Gameplay using XNA - How to get started with the XNA Game Development SDK - Free sample code and starter kits for anyone taking part in Three Thing Game |
November 6th | Getting a Game to Market - Sensible things to do when you start publishing and selling your games and applications |
November 13th | Views from an Angel - David Clark of Cuba Entertainment talks video game investment and angel investors |
November 20th | Correctly Commenting your Code - Putting the right kind of comments in your code is very important. It gets you good marks and it also improves your code. Find out how from Simon Grey |
November 27th | Hacking 101: Information security - Tom Forbes will be setting up a website and then showing how easy it can be to run penetration attacks against it |
December 4th | Blogging for fun and profit - How to start up a blog, and keep writing it. From keen blogger Rob Miles |
All the seminars will take place at 1:15pm on the given Wednesday, in Lecture Theatre D in the Robert Blackburn Building. Anyone is free to come along.
If you have a burning desire to present on a computing topic Rob Miles would love to hear from you.