In the winter-term 2012/13 we will host the talk-series “Tools für
dein Studium” where some tools will be presented, that may come in handy during your time at the university. Different experienced students will give talks about their favorite tools. They will present software and best practices they discovered during their studies and think that are useful. We will post the slides below after the talks.
LaTeX Lieferdienste Shell Versionsverwaltungssysteme
The IEEE Student Branch Passau hosts the so called Egg-Drop-Contest, where you have to protect chickens eggs when they are dropped from a height of \ [STRIKEOUT:10] [STRIKEOUT:15] 20 meters. The eggs will be put into a so called egg-dropper, any kind of construct, built by you, to protect the egg, and then, the whole thing will be dropped. The one who built the best egg-dropper will win. They will be ranked by the effectiveness of the protection and the creativity.
Git is one of the most commonly used distributed version control systems (VCS). It has been developed by Linus Torvalds and is known for being used as the VCS for the Linux kernel. In comparison to other VCS, such as Subversion, distributed VCS do not rely on a central repository; in fact, the repository is distributed among all the users. The talk by Michael Käufl offers an introduction to the use of git and explains typical workflows that are usually applied using git.
We want to thank our Sponsor CipSoft for paying for the gadgets and the pizza!
JRobots Coding Convention The current JRobots-Framework
A team, a bot and an arena. During four hours, the participants developed algorithms for a Java-Bot – Aiming, driving and shooting have to be perfect so a bot can stand its ground.
Your bot can drive around, can find the enemy with its scanner and is equipped with a fat cannon to kick you enemies ass.
OpenStreetMap is an Open Source Project with the
goal to achieve a worldwide geographic database everyone can use for free. Even today, the data, provided by volunteers, is used in maps, for navigation and as part of websites and mobile apps. In their talk, Michael Käufl and Tobias Knerr will explain the idea of
OpenStreetMap, point out possible applications and will provide a live demo of the first steps for taking part in the project.
On June 22nd 2010, Andreas Fischer, Christopher Auer, Katrin Hanauer,
Philipp Wendler and Sebastian Henneberg gave a series of talks on vim, the well known editor. The talks covered an introduction to vim and its history, as well as advanced topics such as the use of vim for writing LaTeX documents and software programs. The event was completed by a short demo of what you can do with vim
and a talk about the usability concepts around “Act withoud thinking”.
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.
On Monday, December 7th 2009, the Stud.IP team will talk about their hardware and software and offer the opportunity to ask questions. Additionally, you may ask for new features or other changes on the system. Among other things, they will talk about:
Statistics on server requests and load Server choice: hardware and software Historical overview: how everything began Scheduled features (roadmap) Feature requests … and many more.
On November 24th 2009, Wolfgang Stief and Constantin Gonzalez had two talks on the topics “OpenSolaris” and “ZFS”. The first talk gave an impression of the features of OpenSolaris and the projects in the community. Moreover, the possibilities in comparison to other operating systems were illustrated. The second talk explained the file system ZFS in detail: Which features work better than other file systems? What new features are available? Which possibilities are offered by ZFS?
PhD candicates and scientists often face unclear priorities and
motivation problems. “Getting Things Done” shows ways to solve both challenges. The workshop on November 9th 2009 by Jens Oberender started with an introduction to the method in general. Subsequently, the participants discussed how the GTD principles can make their everyday life better. Open questions on the concrete application of these principles were collected on cards, before they were clustered and discussed.
