Join us!
Who: CS students and friends
What: Enjoy some ice skating, learn a bit along the way, meet new people!
Where: Nathan Phillips Square
— skate rentals are $8 (bring some sort of ID)
When: Friday February 12 starting at 6pm – 9pm
— last day of school before the beginning of Reading Week!!!
Why: Because it’s Canada; you have to go skating at least once
… and there will be FREE hot chocolate provided
Hope to see you all there!
The University of Waterloo’s VeloCity program will take place this spring term (May – July)!
It involves selecting three great teams of post-secondary students from across Canada with promising tech startup ideas and putting them through the paces at VeloCity with the goal of getting their startup off the ground by the end of July.
Selected students would receive:
- funding – $3K per student $9K per team max…(provided by OCE / CCR)
- free office space in the Accelerator Centre in our R&T Park
- free living space at VeloCity (max 3 free rooms per team)
- Communitech (our local tech association) is developing weekly workshops and seminars, and as well they¹ll be helping to match the teams up through their network of mentors.
- Students would own 100% of their IP.
The application deadline is Feb 14 and more details are at http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/bootcamp
A reminder has been posted of tomorrow’s Project Showcase on the Announcement board, along with a message from the career centre about the conflict with the Microsoft Tech Talk, and the fact that the Career Centre was able to schedule a special session of the talk for students who want to attend both events:
https://csc.cdf.toronto.edu/bb/YaBB.pl?num=1264099060
Web Startup Society and Skule WebDev are looking for students who are willing to deliver a 5 minute demo on personal projects which focus on web and mobile applications/startups/websites @ our first DemoCampUofT to be held on the week of Feb 22 or Mar 1. It’ll be great chance to network, get instant feedback, and receive a certificate from the Web Startup Society and Skule WebDev.
For more info:
http://www.webstartupsociety.com/2010/01/democampuoft/
Join Steve as he talks about software development on the Mac with Apple’s Xcode tool suite. We’ll look at building applications with Xcode and Interface Builder; the role of scripting languages including Applescript, Ruby and Python alongside C and Objective-C; reusing objects from Apple’s Cocoa, WebKit and ImageKit frameworks; nifty higher level tools including Automator for workflow design, and the groundbreaking Quartz Composer graphic development environment; and if Steve messes up, we may see some brief usage of the debugger as well.
Overview of some topics covered:
- The core UNIX operating system of the Mac
- The open-source tools used to build the operating system (the GNU C and C++ compilers, the BSD OS, etc)
- Simple programming by scripting other applications, e.g. writing scripts to tell, say, iChat or iTunes or Safari what to do
- Easy building-block style application development for non-programmers, power users etc using Automator and its 150 powerful actions
- The Xcode suite for building complete Mac OS X applications (the Xcode developer environment, the Interface Builder design tool, etc)
- Quartz Composer, a groundbreaking graphics development environment that lets you harness the power of the Mac OS X graphics technologies – Quartz 2D, Core Image, OpenGL, Quicktime, etc.
- Reusing pieces of Apple applications in your own application; e.g. using the WebKit frameworks that are the core of Safari to build your own applications that harness everything Safari can do, or the ImageKit framework (drawn from iPhoto) providing sophisticated objects for editing and presenting images
- Performance monitoring and analysis tools – what can you do with dtrace, Instruments.app, Shark.app and so on to peer inside your system and measure its behavior
- Using Xcode and the iPhone SDK to build applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Steve Hayman is a National Consulting Engineer for Apple’s Education Sales group. After graduating from Waterloo with an M.Math in 1986, he earned his hacker credentials as a Unix network manager for UW and Indiana University; at the latter institution he became the first, and perhaps the last, private individual in the entire state of Indiana to purchase a NeXT cube. Steve joined NeXT Computer in 1991, attracted by NeXT’s blend of a powerful Unix core with a great graphical interface. You can imagine his delight as Apple acquired NeXT and the NEXTSTEP operating system evolved into Mac OS X. A frequent speaker at Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference, he’s currently a field resource for Apple on the topics of Unix, the Mac OS X developer tools and the Cocoa, AppleScript Studio and WebObjects developer environments. In his spare time Steve directs Argonotes, the Toronto Argonauts Band, which he thinks is the finest band in the Canadian Football League.
Who Should Attend?
Mac users, software developers, faculty who teach programming and might be interested in using the Mac platform, anybody interested in the idea of writing their own applications, anybody interested in the guts of the operating system, UNIX aficionados who might be open-minded to doing the odd thing outside of the Terminal window once in a while, power Mac users who might be curious what you can do inside the Terminal window once in a while, and more.
On Wednesday 27 January, 4-6pm, in BA 1200, the department will hold
its annual Undergraduate Project Showcase. Students who participated
in project work during 2009 will present their work. There will be
food and drinks following the presentations, prizes for the best
presenters, and a chance to mingle. All CS students and personnel are
invited.
Please take a minute to mention this to your class during your next
lecture. You can also post a link to the following official
announcement: https://csc.cdf.toronto.edu/bb/YaBB.pl?num=1264099060
The CSSU is holding their annual First-Year Winter Breakfast this Wednesday, January 13th 2010 at 11am at BA2283.
We will be serving fresh waffles, muffins, coffee, juice for free to all first-year CS students who may have
started in the Fall or Winter, all are welcome!
Come out and mingle with the rest of your peers and enjoy some free food!
The CSSU look forward to seeing you Wednesday!
Hi all! Hope the term has started off well (at least for the most part). Regardless, we will be hosting our first pub night on FRIDAY January 15th @ Molly’s – 7PM
Come out for a night of drinks, food, and fun before the work load gets hectic!
Hope to see you all there!
Hello everyone,
The first session will be this Tuesday, January 5th, 5pm, location TBA (in Bahen, will be emailed to the email provided in the RSVP).
Our guest speaker will be Daniel Debow, co-CEO of Rypple, and one of the founders and the VP of Corporate Development and Marketing for Workbrain. Workbrain was sold for more than CA$200M. He will be accepting question at the and of his talk, so please prepare appropriate questions in advance.
In addition, he will be bringing Tiho Bajic, Rypple’s first developer, who is a UofT CS student alumni.
Please RSVP: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE0xSXAyaHlJRFpiWDFRMzJRNFJNSXc6 MA
Hello everyone,
Have you always wanted to get some leadership experience?
Have you always wanted to learn new entrepreneurial skills?
Are you constantly seeking new challenges?
Are you always trying to pursue new goals?
If you answered Yes for all of these, you probably want to check out this new club.
The Entrepreneurship for Computer Scientists club is a new club that will be introduced for the first time at the beginning of the winter term. The club members will meet biweekly for a two hours session that will include a workshop and a talk. The talks will be held by various entrepreneurs that will provide all the members with valuable information about their past experience.
The subjects covered in the workshops will include valuing pros/cons, private and industry entrepreneurs, how/when to try, how to pitch, decision making, imperfect information, etc…
If you would like to be a member of the club please email: eran.henig@utoronto.ca
If you have more questions about the club, please reply to this thread so that other students will be able to benefit from the answers too.
See you in January and have a great Holiday!!!
Eran Henig
