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Upcoming Events: Alt+Tab Talks, Workshops and Unix 201
by Computer Science Club 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Hello everyone! There’s a few different CS Club events coming up this week and afterwards: # Alt+Tab Talks Thursday, March 9th at 6pm in MC 4042 Come watch interesting 10-15 minute talks by CS Club members. Talks so far are: - "Online database migrations at scale” by Shirley Miao - "Stitching spaces in subdivision surfaces” by Luke Franceschini - "Stepping into math: building a step-by-step algebra solver” by Evy Kassirer - “How your text editor does syntax highlighting” by Tristan Hume - “Theory of computation” by Bryan Coutts http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4042-2017-03-09-6:00_pm # Road to Node Workshops Tuesday, March 7 at 7pm in STC 0020 + Tues, March 14 @ 7 + Tues, March 21 @ 7pm Three workshops introducing the Node.js framework for people of all skill levels. Starting with an introduction to Javascript and ES6 this Tuesday and continuing with further sessions on Node.js, promises and the Express framework. See the Facebook event for details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1415253851840971/ # Unix 201 Thursday, March 16th at 6pm A talk and demo about more advanced Unix tricks and tools than are taught in our regular Unix 101 events. Topics may include customizing your prompt, the ranger console file manager, rsync and using terminal escape sequences in your programs. Check the CSC website before the event next week for a room number. Remember to mark your calendars! - Tristan Hume Vice President Computer Science Club

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Possible service interruption Sat., Feb. 18 - Mon., Feb. 20
by Computer Science Club 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hello Everyone, This is a notice of a possible interruption to CSC services on Saturday, Feb. 18 through Monday, Feb. 20. We have been informed that the air conditioning will be turned off in the MC machine room (where our machines are located). While alternative cooling options are planned, it may become necessary to turn off some machines to reduce heat and protect our machines from damage. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Systems Committee at syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca <mailto:syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. Thanks, Systems Committee | Computer Science Club University of Waterloo syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca

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Code Party this evening in STC 0020
by Computer Science Club 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Hello everyone! The CS Club is hosting a Code Party today (February 8th) from 5:00pm until late this evening in STC 0020! Come code with us, eat some food, do some things. Personal projects you want to work on? Homework projects you need to finish? Or want some time to explore some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at Code Party 0 and do it, with great company and great food. Come any time after 5pm, but if you come earlier your food preferences are more likely to be accounted for, and there's more time for coding! - Tristan Hume Vice President Computer Science Club

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Winter 2017 Election Results
by Computer Science Club 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

Hello everyone, Here are the results from this term's elections: President: wyscheung (Wilson Cheung) Vice-President: tghume (Tristan Hume) Treasurer: jxpryde (Jordan Pryde) Secretary: aafata (Amir Fata) Additionally, the following positions were appointed: Systems Administrator: ztseguin (Zachary Seguin) Office Manager: fbauckho (Felix Bauckholt) Librarian: csfmurph (Connor Murphy) Imapd: ischtche (Ilia Chtcherbakov) We also amended our constitution to revise our Code of Conduct. The updated Code of Conduct can be found at https://csclub.uwaterloo. ca/about/code-of-conduct. Bryan Coutts Chief Returning Officer

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CSC Election and GM Tomorrow (Jan 12) at 6PM in MC Comfy
by Computer Science Club 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

The nominations for this term's election have closed. The nominees are: President: - matedesc - wyschean Vice President: - tghume - wyschean Treasurer: - jj2baile - jxpryde - tghume Secretary: - aafata - tghume The election will happen tomorrow, Thursday January 12, at 6PM in MC Comfy. Voting will be done in a heads-down, hands-up manner and is restricted to MathSoc social members. We use approval voting; for each position, you may vote for any subset of the candidates. If you wish to vote but will not be attending the election, you may send an absentee ballot indicating which candidate(s) you wish to vote for, for each position. This ballot must be sent to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca from your @uwaterloo.ca or @ csclub.uwaterloo.ca email address. A full description of the roles and the election procedure are listed in our Constitution, available at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution. After the election, we will consider proposed changes to our constitution, specifically our Code of Conduct. The proposed changes from our old Code of Conduct can be found at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~p j2melan/csc/about/coc-amendments. b2coutts Chief Returning Officer

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Elections on Jan *12*, Further Code of Conduct Details
by Computer Science Club 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

More greetings programs, The Election is being held next Thursday January *12*, not January 5 as the last email said. In addition, we have a fancy HTML diff detailing the proposed changes to the Code of Conduct, which can be viewed at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pj2melan/csc/about/coc-amendments. Thanks, b2coutts Chief Returning Officer

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CSC Elections and Code of Conduct Changes Next Thursday
by Computer Science Club 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Greetings Programs, The CSC will be holding its termly election next Thursday, January 5th, at 6PM in MC Comfy. We will be electing a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary, and appointing a Systems Administrator (to be ratified at the election), Office Manager, and Librarian. If you would like to nominate someone (for one of the 4 elected positions), you may either write their name on the whiteboard in the CSC office, or send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca (from either your @uwaterloo.ca or @csclub.uwaterloo.ca email) with the userid of the member you would like to nominate, and the position(s) you want to nominate them for. Note that only mathsoc social members (including all undergraduate math students) are eligible. Nominations will close at 6PM on Wednesday (Jan 11). Voting will be done in a heads-down, hands-up manner and is restricted to MathSoc social members. A full description of the roles and the election procedure are listed in our Constitution, available at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution. In addition, at the election we will be considering changes to the Code of Conduct. The gist of the changes we will be considering is: - Have decisions made by committee, not by one person - Keep the faculty advisor in the loop, and give them a veto - Clarify this doesn't override laws or uni policy - List relevant university policies - Define the office, IRC, and events as specific CSC spaces - Say that new members should sign the CoC - Make exceptions in confidentiality section for the faculty advisor and police services Any questions regarding the election can be sent to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Thanks, Bryan Coutts Chief Returning Officer

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CSC/PMC Joint EOT Party Today at 6PM!
by Computer Science Club 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Greetings Programs, The term is coming to a close, and the CSC is hosting its end-of-term event together with the PMC today. We'll be meeting in MC Comfy at 6PM to eat lots of snacks and Indian food from Kismet, hang out, and play board games. This will be our last event of the term. Thanks everyone for a great term, and good luck with your exams! Calum T. Dalek Chairbeing Extraordinaire

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ALT+TAB today at 6PM, EOT next Monday
by Computer Science Club 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

Greetings Programs, This is a reminder that we are running ALT+TAB today at 6PM, in MC 4063! ALT+TAB is the CSC's version of SASMS. Six CSC members will be giving brief, 25-minute talks on various CS-related topics (a list of the members and their talks is at the bottom of this email). It's a great way to learn a little bit about a lot of different things. There will also be free dinner provided at the event. In addition, the CSC will be hosting its last event of the term, the EOT party, on Monday Dec. 5 at 6PM in MC Comfy. We'll take over the Comfy and have free dinner for everyone, and just hang out with each other. Calum T. Dalek Chairbeing Extraordinaire List of ALT+TAB talks: Felix Bauckholt: *A Short Idris Tutorial* Bryan Coutts: *Linear and Integer Programming* Sean Harrap: *Communication Complexity* Christopher Hawthorne: *Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem* Charlie Wang: *Typed Racket* Ifaz Kabir: *How Modern SAT Solvers Work*

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Member Talk at 6 PM Today, ALT+TAB Next Wednesday
by Computer Science Club 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Greetings Programs, The CSC is hosting a member talk today at 6 PM, in MC 4063. Edmund Noble will be giving a talk titled "Purely Functional Programming with Freely-Generated Domain Specific Languages"; the abstract is at the foot of this email. There will be snacks and drinks at the end of the talk. In addition, the CSC is hosting ALT+TAB (aka SCP or SAMS), the CSC's version of SASMS, next Wednesday at 6 PM in MC 4063. Several members will be giving short, ~25 minute talks on various CS-related topics. A running list of confirmed talks can be found at http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~b2coutts/alttab.html. If you are interested in giving a talk, please email exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca with the title of your talk, and optionally a brief abstract, ideally by the end of Monday. Remember that there will be a planned power outage in MC tomorrow (Nov 26) from 7AM to 5PM; CSC machines will be shutting down at 6AM in preparation. Also, thanks to the Mathsoc Capital Improvement Fund (CIF), the CSC finally upgraded natural-flavours, also known as the shitty machine in the corner of the room that nobody wanted to use! It now has an i7-6700k and 16GB of RAM. - Calum T. Dalek Member Talk Abstract: Dependency injection is an often-used technique in object-oriented programming to easily modify the behaviours of an object by providing it with objects it would have otherwise generated on its own, to increase modularity. Aspect-oriented programming is a related technique which adds additional behaviour ("advice") to existing code, aiming to address cross-cutting concerns which affect wide areas of an application without sacrificing modularity. Dependency injection might not seem a common topic in functional programming, but application modularity is essential to functional programming in a practical setting. A natural analogue to dependency injection and aspect-oriented programming in functional programming comes from a surprising place, and offers superior modularity to both. The free monad (F f) for a type constructor (and domain-specific language instruction set) f provides a syntax tree with internal nodes as domain-specific language instructions, which in combination with coproduct functors, allow domain-specific languages to be composed and combined easily.

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