[Cs-club] Re: [fdllug-list] Intro. to Programming

[Rene Horn <rhorn@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:45:04PM -0500, Rene Horn wrote:
> I want to have a special meeting sometime that would introduce
> programming to people who don't know how to program yet or have
> questions about programming in general or just want to improve their
> programming skills.  Unless someone else wishes to teach this, the
> meeting would have to wait until next week.  I don't have time to be
> able to hold a meeting for this week.
> 
> I would like for people who would wish to attend something like this
> to email me or the chatter list ( csclubchatter@lists.uwosh.edu ) on
> when a good time to have this would be.  This would not necessarily be
> a one time thing, but something that I (or someone else who wishes to
> teach) could do maybe once a month.
> 
> I know Dan mentioned this in his email, but if anyone wishes to attend
> the Reflections|Projections conference, please go to their web site (
> http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/ ), register, and then let us (Dan
> or myself) know that you plan on going.  We need to get this
> information as soon as possible because the conference is coming up
> very soon.  If you don't know what the conference is about, visit the
> web site or come to the meeting tomorrow, we will discuss it there.
> 
> Finally, to give everyone a heads up, we need to discuss the Linux
> Informfest/Installfest.  If you do not know what Linux is, then you
> can ignore this part of the email.  If you do, and are interested, we
> should start planning it soon.  The end of October is the time that
> Dan and myself discussed for the Informfest/Installfest.  It is likely
> that we will have the Fond du Lac Linux Users Group involved as well.
> 
> Rene

Sorry, I don't know how to have particular parts of an email be sent
to particular recipients.  I don't usually need to.  The first part
about the introduction to programming thing is through the UWOshkosh
CS Club.  If anyone here is interested, you're more than welcome to
come up to the UWOshkosh campus for it.  I'll be sure to mail this
list the meeting time and where (and directions if you don't know how
to get here or aren't familiar with the campus.)

What I wanted you guys to see are the last two paragraphs.  For
Reflections|Projections, students here will get reimbursed by the
Computer Science department for any costs (gas, lodging, entrance fee,
etc.), but if you guys want to go, you will have to pay for
yourselves.  Sorry.  I recommend going, though, it's a lot of fun.
Last year, Ian Murdock (founder of Debian and Progeny) gave a speech,
as well as Rasterman (lead developer of Enlightenment.)  There is also
a contest, MechMania, that I and other UWO students participate.  The
contest is an AI programming contest.  We need to write a program that
will defeat other teams' AIs (a.k.a. 'bots) in a game that they give
us.  A lot of times, companies will come to the conference and give
away a lot of cool free stuf.

Rene
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