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Windows Phone App-A-Thon

Posted on January 13, 2012 | Leave a comment

Microsoft is hosting a 12-hour long event for developers on ASU campus! Come join us for free food, prizes, and an all around great experience in fun and collaboration!

The Windows Phone App-A-Thon is here!

It’s time to compete at the school level in Microsoft’s newest competition, Big App on Campus!

Register now to participate in our 12 hour hack-a-thon being held on Saturday, January 28th!  9am to 9pm

School-level prizes include X-Box Kinect Bundles, Windows Phones, Tee-Shirts, and ‘Bro-grammer’ sunglasses!  Get hands on guidance from Windows Phone Developer Jeff Wilcox, and score a whole days’ worth of FREE meals!  Tell your Friends!

Want to hear more about the National Competition?  Check out our Blog!

Our National Competition boasts some pretty sweet prizes, including an all-expense paid trip to SxSW Music Festival and backstage passes for you and a friend, a 60” TV or a $15,000 cash prize!

 All it takes to enter is your app being approved in the Windows Phone Marketplace prior to February 15th!

Don’t miss this chance to win great prizes and build the next Big App for Windows Phone!

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AMEX Presentation to CIS and CS/CSE

Posted on September 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

Reminder: Presentation for Undergraduate Students

AMEX Presentation to CIS and CS/CSE

Thursday September 15th

BAC 316 (next to the MU)

Presentation starts at 7:15 pm

Pizza delivered at 6:45 pm

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No Crappy Code

Posted on September 6, 2011 | Leave a comment

Hi SoDa-rinos!

I’m Nick Vaidyanathan, PhD student in Computer Science in this fine program, studying software engineering specializing in software architectures/design. I’ve been around here for a while, so if you ever need some advice on navigating the intricacies of ASU, please feel free to look me up.

So, you write crappy code. Don’t try to deny it. Don’t worry, I do too. We all do it. Not a lot of us know (or care) about how to do it better. But if you do, you may be interested in checking out Robert Martin’s Clean Code. It will make you a better coder, no matter the language or paradigm you work in.

I am currently leading a reading group through this book, Wednesday nights at 8 pm at Gangplank. This week we will be covering Chapter 8: Unit Testing. We will be having an industry partner come in and talk about testing in C/C++ with boost. If you are writing software and you are not writing tests, then even if your code compiles, runs, does what’s expected and has no obvious bugs, YOAR DOING IT WRONG. We’ll talk about how to do it right.

Worried that you’ve never heard of the book before? Don’t be. The book is modular and each chapter is fairly self-contained, so even if you have no prior experience with it you should be able to participate and join the discussion.
Need a ride? E-mail me and we’ll set up carpooling.
Questions? Radio Shack’s got answers, but I’ll do what I can to help.

Hope to see you there!
\nick/

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Stanford course, ‘Intro to AI’ Offered for Free

Posted on August 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

Have you always wanted to expand your knowledge of heuristic algorithms, deural networks, and artificial intelligence design? Well today’s your lucky day! SoDA Member, Patrick Traynor recently contacted us about this interesting approach that Stanford is taking for their Intro to AI course, by which the public is invited to sign up for the online course for free… Well, not absolutely free, while there are no registration fees, students are still required to purchase the textbook for the class, which is still inexpensive enough to make this an excellent opportunity.

 ”I am very excited. Teaching many students online has always been my dream. This quarter I get to affect more students than in my entire career before. And yes, we are already beyond my expectations, just 3 days in.” -Professor Thrun

Thanks to SoDA member, Patrick Traynor, for taking the time to contact us about this great opportunity. If you have an opportunity, job offer, project announcement, exciting field breakthroughs or etc, feel free to contact us and we’ll be sure to post it for our members.

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