Hey Everyone, here's your news and events update for the next few weeks. We hope everyone's looking forward to the end of term and a great holiday season. ==New Events Officer== ==Hoodie Order== ==Google STEP Internship== ==Christmas Party== ==Web Development Talk== ==Programming Tutorials== ==Admin Training== ==New Events Officer== We'd like to welcome our new Events Officer, Áine Duffy (Pedro) to the committee. She has some great plans for the coming year, and has hit the ground running starting to organise the upcoming Christmas Party. We on the committee are really looking forward to working with Áine over the coming year. ==Hoodie Order== We will be placing this years hoodie order on Friday Nov 30th.The hoodies will cost be 25 euro each. If you would like a redbrick hoodie, you can add your order to the list at this link: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~vadimck/hoodies/ Adding your order to the list merely records your interest and order details for reference. Your hoodie selection will only be placed in the final order if you have paid the 25 euro to the committee on or before the 28th of November. We will be accepting payments on the following dates: Monday the 26th, Tuesday the 27th and Wednesday the 28th of November. Note that payments will not be accepted after the 28th of November. If you wish to pay for your order but will not be able to pay on these dates contact us at committee@redbrick.dcu.ie ==Google STEP Internship== Closing Date: 28th December Website: http://bit.ly/Rlo1wJ This is Google's 2nd year of offering STEP internships in Europe. STEP is a unique programme in so far as it is focused on 1st and 2nd year Computer Science and related subjects students - so graduating in 2015 and later. This 12 week program 1st July 2013 and 20th September 2013 is open to all qualified university students enrolled in a B.A. or B.Sc. focused on: Computer Science Computer Engineering Informatics or in a closely related technical field. Applicants should have some programming experience in either Java, Python, C, or C++. Google are also looking to promote internships and Google products and services throughout the year, we'll keep you posted on them as they arise ==Christmas Party== Date: Thursday 6th of December Venue: Matt Weldons, 'The Slipper' Time: 7pm This year's Intersocs Christmas party is being held on the Thursday of week 11, mark the dates on your G-Calendars as it's sure to be a big one. There'll also be a visit from Santa, as well as plenty of platters and festive drinks deals! Hope to see you all there! More details to follow!! ==Web Development Talk== Date:Tuesday 4th of December Time: 5pm-6pm Venue: LG26 Dr. Donal Fitzpatrick will be presenting a web design talk in week 11. The talk will centre around web development powered by Drupal. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) used to design websites with a focus on modularity, standards, collaboration, ease-of-use, and more. It is a cutting-edge platform that supports the latest technologies that the Web has to offer. This is set to be an insightful talk from one of DCU's own experienced lecturers, so be sure to attend and take note of any development advice or tips he has to offer. ==Programming Tutorials== Date: Monday 26th November. Time: 5pm Venue: LG26 Due to an increasing demand from our members, we are planning to run weekly programming tutorials. During these tutorial sessions you will be able to bring along any problems you are having with your code/coding concepts and we'll do our best to help you out. Whether you're getting a compiler error that you don't recognise, you're having trouble with some coding concepts or a logic error in your code is driving you crazy sometimes a fresh set of eyes is all you need. These tutors helping out at the tutorials are students and as such may not be able to answer all of your problems. Also it should be noted that they will not be able to give you the answers to any assignments/labs you have that you are being graded on. If you are having trouble with an assignment or lab we will try to help you understand the problem and how you should go about solving it rather than giving you the answer. The tutorials were quite well received last week, hopefully those who came along got the help they required. We're hoping to get some feedback from those who have attended over the next while to see where we can improve. If all goes well we hope to get people in from industry to give talks and tutorials over the coming weeks. If you have any questions regarding the tutorials, send an email to helpdesk@redbrick.dcu.ie . ==Admin Training== Date: Tuesday 27th of November Time: 6pm-7pm Venue: LG26 This week in Admin Training the admin team will be talking you through some basic shell scripting. Scripting is a useful tool for performing the same task multiple times, or on large sets of data. Some typical uses for shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text. Needless to say scripting is an invaluable skill for any system administrator so join us on Tuesday for some training and some craic. That's all for this week, as always if you have any questions, feel free to contact us at committee@redbrick.dcu.ie. Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13