November 2009 - csc-general

CS 240 full time tutor needed
by Computer Science Club 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hey everyone, ISG (Instructional Support Group) would like to let you know that they are currently looking for full time tutor for CS 240 next term. The job description is below. To apply for this position, please send your resume to Fenglian Qiu (f2qiu(a)uwaterloo.ca) Job Description The Instructional Support Group requires a tutor to assist in the delivery of CS240. A tutor serves as a consultant for the students of the course through consulting hours and as a manager to co-ordinate the activities of the graduate teaching assistants assigned to the course. This position may be of particular interest to students who are considering graduate school and ultimately teaching at the post-secondary level. There may be an opportunity to gain teaching experience by giving tutorials. The tutor may also develop tutorials for the students. Other duties may include creation of model solutions and marking schemes, creation of scripts needed for assignment submission, testing and auto-marking, and assisting in proctoring and marking. Good communication and interpersonal skills are required, as is familiarity with UNIX. Students currently enrolled in the courses are encouraged to apply.

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Code Party!!11!!
by Computer Science Club 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello, the CSC is hosting a Code Party!!11!! on 2009-11-27 at 7:00 PM in Comfy Lounge. Facebook has been generous enough to sponsor the event, and will be bringing food as well as a few former Facebook coops to hang out. So come join us for a night of coding. Get in touch with more experianced coders, advertize for/bug squash on your favourite open source project, write that personal project you were planning to do for a while but haven't found the time. Don't have any ideas but want to sit and hack? Try your hand at the Facebook puzzles, write a new app, or just chill and watch scifi. Hope to see you there. If you have any questions about the event e-mail the executive or check http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca.

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Club/Office Projects Day
by Computer Science Club 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi everyone, This Sunday, from 10am to whenever, we (the executive and librarian) will be in the Club office, working on the following club projects: Office Cleaning: - The Treasurer, Michael Spang, did a lot of this last weekend, but there are still things to be cleaned/organized. Office Staff Training: - If you would like to be one of the trusted members who is charged with keeping the office open, please come help with cleaning, we will go over what is expected of office staff, make sure all office staffers know eachother, and the need to know items for office staff. Library Work: - Our Librarian, Sapphyre Gervais, will be around to direct either work on the software that drives our library or the physical organization. Video Archival: - I will be working on transfering some of our recent videos from the miniDV tapes to the website, as well as working on creating an indexed archive for posterity of both talks and related materials. This is a work day, if you attend please be prepared to do work for the club. Thanks, -- Edgar Bering, Vice President ebering at uwaterloo dot ca Computer Science Club http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~ebering Mathematics Society MC 3036, (519)888-4567,x33870 University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario CANADA N2L 3G1

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In the Beginning, or: How to write a Bootloader
by Computer Science Club 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hello, the CSC is hosting a talk entitled "In the Beginning" by Dr. Bill Cowan on 2009-11-05 at 4:30 PM in MC2065. To most CS students an OS kernel is pretty low level. But there is something even lower, the instructions that must be executed to get the CPU ready to accept a kernel. That is, if you look at any processor's reference manual there is a page or two describing the state of the CPU when it powered on. This talk describes what needs to happen next, up to the point where the first kernel instruction executes. This part of execution is extremely architecture-dependent. Those of you who have any experience with this aspect of CS probably know the x86 architecture, and think it's horrible, which it is. I am going to talk about the ARM architecture, which is inside almost all mobile phones, and which allows us to look at a simple implementation that includes all the essentials. Hope to see you there. If you have any questions about the event e-mail the executive or check http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca.

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