UoS Computing Society

Tomorrow we are hosting our final Computing Society event for this academic year with 10x Amazon vouchers to be won and FREE pizza and coffee! Hope to see you there!

🚨 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨: We're organising a networking event for students on ALL courses (not just Computing!) for Wednesday 19th April from 11.30am - 4pm in A001! You'll be able to meet other students and hear from our guest speakers (more details on the speakers coming soon!)

And to top it off, we're also giving those who attend the chance to win one of 10 Amazon vouchers!

We hope to see you there!

Need help with an assignment? Don't understand a particular topic? Well, we're holding a student-led support session this Wednesday (22nd March) at 1.30pm in A208, so if you need any help, then you'll be able to get some from your fellow students!

On the 29th March, for our last Google Developer Students' Club event of the year, we've arranged a workshop with Paul Graham, who is going to talk about professional public speaking!

Find out more:

Professional Public Speaking | Google Developer Student Clubs In-person Event - Paul Graham gives an insight on public speaking and how we can get motivated

We've got David Atkins from 3 A Design, a local hardware and software company for broadcasting and telecommunications, coming in this week to talk about designing computer systems! It will be tomorrow (15th March) at 1.30pm in A208! Hope to see you there!

We've got Angie Vale and Franzi Scheithauer from their branding and web design studio Studio BrandUp coming in to talk to us this Wednesday (8th March) at 1.30pm in A208 to talk about women in the technology industry and web accessibility!

This week, we're holding an open source intelligence event where you'll be able to find out how to extract information from images on Instagram, among other techniques. As usual, it will be this Wednesday (1st March) at 1.30pm in A208!

Want to know how to animate your HTML elements come alive with CSS animations? Or do you want to test your CSS skills in a CSS Battle? Good news, we'll be doing both of these at this week's event this Wednesday (22nd February) at 1.30pm in A208!

This week, we've got Matthew Pepper coming in to talk about the companies he's worked for throughout his career, including at Microsoft and John Lewis! As usual, it's this Wednesday (15th February) at 1.30pm in A208 - you won't want to miss it!

Have you ever wanted to create your own blog or e-commerce website? Well, this Wednesday (8th February) at 1.30pm in A208, we'll be showing you step-by-step how to create your own WordPress website and e-commerce store with WooCommerce!

(We'll also be on Microsoft Teams at https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MjcyZGIwNjctZjdkMS00ZTg2LThmMjktZDdlMTJiMWNmMTY0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22ee265dd9-04ad-41b7-b409-e6699705d35d%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a25637b8-0125-462a-ac3d-fc3ffdc958ee%22%7d)

Next Wednesday (25th January) at 1.30pm in A001, we have Tony Blacker, a Senior Programme Lead at NHS England, coming in to talk about how he helped create the COVID-19 NHS England platform in 3 days! Tony has also done work on the NHS Nightingale WordPress theme and before that, he ran a web agency in Ipswich. We'll also have a Q&A so you can ask him any questions you may have!

Happy New Year everyone! To welcome everyone back from the Christmas break, we're holding a re-induction event tomorrow (18th February) at 1.30pm in A208! Everyone's welcome to come along, even if you haven't been to a Computing Society event before!