The IEEEXtreme is a yearly international programming competition
hosted by IEEE, where students all over the world try to solve programming challenges over the course of 24 hours. Four teams of three students form Passau took part in this year’s
competition. Further we were joined by two teams from the neighboring student branch at the OTH Regensburg.
To see our participants at work, cracking down on the problems (and
vice versa), watch this timelapse.
Unser Sponsor msgGillardon war am 28. Mai mit einem Workshop zu
Kanban-Systemen bei uns zu Gast. Bei agilen Entwicklungsmethoden wird auch besonders auf Effizienz geachtet werden, sodass keine Ressource ungenutzt bleibt. Es wird also nur beim Vorgänger im Produktionsfluss angefragt, wenn eine Nachfrage besteht. Dies wird im Prinzip auch bei Scrum eingesetzt. Erst wenn ein Team seine Aufgaben in einem Sprint erledigt hat, bekommen sie Neue. Der Scrum Master ist in diesem Fall der Kanban-Regelungskreis und regelt die Arbeitslast zwischen Team und Product Owner.
This year, again as part of the Campusfest, our 6. Eggdrop Contest
recently took place. Despite of rainy weather in the afternoon of May 23 14 teams took the challenge of constructing a device called “Eggdropper” to protect a raw egg from breaking while falling from a height of 20 meters onto the ground. To lift the Eggdroppers into the air a turntable ladder was used which was provided by the volunteer fire department of Passau which also allowed the participants to enjoy the view of Passau from above.
With our prize giving ceremony at the 26.01.2015 the advent calendar
2014 has completed. Thanks to all participants and we congratulate the winners alefu, 3_of_8, conan_the_librarian, Frodewin, ChiliconCarne and Mat2095! This year we had 91 registered participants and a total of 2,309
submissions. The outcome of this were 8,505 test cases our backend had to manage. You will find an archive with all of these 24 tasks and the slides from the final presentation at the end of this report.
IEEE SB Passau offers this Christmas season an
Advent calendar again. Every day take a new chance to open a window of our calendar and solve the problem behind it. If you have completed all tasks successfully and have passed the test
cases, a Raspberry Pi B+ may be waiting for you. Go to advent.ieee-passau.org
The IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress 2014 took place in Krakow from August 4th until August 10th. Passau was represented by six student branch members. To present their activities at the congress, each branch was asked to create a poster before traveling to Krakow.
oster Passau
On 07/06/2014, this time as part of the campus festival, our Eggdrop Contest took place for the 5th time in bright sunshine. Nine teams took on the task of building a construction (called an Eggdropper) that would protect a raw egg from a fall of 20 meters. In the end, four of the nine teams succeeded.
To quickly and safely bring the Eggdroppers to drop height above the forecourt of the Audimax, an aerial ladder from the Passau Volunteer Fire Department was used.
At the 17th of June 2014 we organized the FIM Barbecue Party together with the Fachschaft Informatik.
Professors, research assistants and students met at the place between
the FIM and the ITZ eating steaks and sausages and drinking beer. Even though the weather was not perfect at first, over 100 people
attended the party.
Along with food and drink, we saw to fun and excitement organizing the first Beer-Box-Far-Piling-Event.
SC02825The band Chord Dump which consists of members of the faculty entertained us with live music.
Like last year the IEEE SB Passau provides an Advent calender. “Code, no chocolate!” – There are 24 tasks to solve and everyone is invited to take part in this competition.
Every day at 0:00 o’clock there will be a new programmers task. You may solve it in Java, Python, C, C++ or PHP. The code is tested by us and accepted if the task is solved correctly. Of course there will be an award for the best coders.
JRobot Coding Convention The current JRobots-Framework
One team, one robot, one arena. Within four hours the participants develop a control algorithm for a Java-bot - target acquisition, path finding and everything which is helpful for a robot to hold its ground.
Several methods are provided for controlling your bot: you can move it, you can use the radar to find your enemies and you can control the fat rocket launcher mounted onto your bot to give your enemy hell.
