Not in the mood for chocolate but you like the thought of an Advent calendar? You don’t know what to do with all the time until Christmas? Then take the challenge and participate in the Advent calendar of the IEEE Student Branch Passau!
This is already the sixth iteration of our big programming Advent calendar with a small (or bigger) challenge for each day. We provide interesting tasks for novice coders as well as experienced developers.
Professor Sauer held a very interesting presentation about the topic. He showed some examples of how mathematics impact the brain and how diverse the separate areas in our head react to different numbers and methods. He also made great use of his own experiences in this field he gained from working together with the university of Gießen and drew a fascinating connection between mathematics and medical science. Thus also non-mathematicians were able to learn to differentiate between calculating numbers and doing mathematics via scientific images of the brain and understand the complex modeling of such data, that in its theory even reaches to the model of tone.
On the 26th of November the Iteratec GmbH was hosting a coding dojo at the University of Passau, entitled “Baby Steps - a very practical introduction into testdriven development”. Dojo is japanese and literally translates to “place of the way”, but more frequently is used as the training area in martial arts. For the participants this converted into test-driven pair-programming and always implementing the smallest “baby-steps” of code possible for a certain usecase.
Not in the mood for chocolate? But you still don’t want to go without an Advent calendar? Is the wait until Christmas too long for you? Then take the challenge and join the Advent calendar of the IEEE Student Branch Passau!
This is already the fifth time we are running the big programming Advent calendar, with a small (or not so small) task for every day. We offer interesting programming tasks for scripting newcomers and seasoned algorithm foxes alike.
Zum zweiten Mal konnten wir den IEEE Region 8 Exemplary Student Branch Award erhalten. Mit dieser Auszeichnung werden Student Branches belohnt, welche sich einerseits den Regeln der IEEE verpflichtet haben und andererseits durch besonderes Engagement herausstechen. Das Bild zeigt Chairman Stephan Lukasczyk und Vice-Chairman Sebastian Böhm mit dem IEEE Region 8 Exemplary Student Branch Award.
Für die Ausrichtung des IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congresses 2016 in Regensburg, welchen die Student Branch Passau zusammen mit der Student Branch Regensburg organisiert und durchgeführt hat, erhielten beide Student Branches auf dem Meeting des Executive Committee der deutschen IEEE Sektion einen Award.
Like every year we will show a selection of tools that are useful for
On June 11, we again had a jRobots event.
For this event, Wolfgang Scholz of iteratec and Raymund Fülöp of Cipsoft came to Passau to hold the competition. Again, the fights were interesting due to a changed ruleset of the framework, which caused the participants to think of new algorithms. New features were a new weapon and a different behaviour of the sensors.
On June, 13th, 2016 three PhD students of Professor Apel’s Chair of Software Engineering visited us: Alexander Grebhahn, Claus Hunsen, and Andreas Stahlbauer. All three gave us an introduction into their research topics.
The first talk by Alexander Grebhahn was about non-functional properties and optimization. It is a significant topic in the context of Configurable Software Systems (CSS) because of the combinatorial explosion of the number of possible configurations. He presented different approaches to evaluate the performance of the different configurations to us.
On June 30th, two penetration testers of ATOS, Alex and Stephan, visited us. About 50 people joined the talk.
While Alex explained the backgrounds and methods to us, Stephan worked as the attacker. The took a simulated web shop as their example and were looking for weaknesses in it. The started with a cross-site-scripting attack in order to get the admin’s session; combined with a cross-site-request-forgery, the web page was manipulated and some bugs were shown.
After last year’s exciting talk we had the pleasure of having Achim Sonntag of Micro-Epsilon again for a talk. This time his talk was on automated detection of paint defects with the reflectCONTROL system.
He started with an introduction in the structure and work of the global acting company, Micro-Epsilon. Cooperations with different universities, for example the institute FORWISS at the University of Passau, are very interesting.
Besides their current orders, the main focus of the talk was reflectCONTROL, a roboter-based system to detect paint defects on cars.
