Daniel Lewis

Daniel Lewis - Blog Banner

Entries Tagged as 'Brookes Computing Society'

Hong Zhu Speaks Out About First Year Programming Languages

April 25th, 2007 No Comments

Prof. Hong Zhu speaks out about the role of Delphi as a first year programming language at Oxford Brookes University:
Dear Daniel,
In response to your call for discussions, my personal view on this issue is
that:
First, we are teaching programming using Delphi environment and OO extended Pascal as the programming language for practical and lecturing purposes. A […]

Tags:

First Year Programming Languages

April 24th, 2007 2 Comments

I have started to construct a list of programming languages found in first year undergraduate computing/computer science/software engineering degrees. Please see this website for a list:
http://www.vanirsystems.com/ProgLangsUnis.html
Please get in contact with me:

If you are a current student at a university and don’t see the first year languages of your university (or I have made a mistake)
Are […]

Tags:

Static Text GetLabel

February 15th, 2007 No Comments

Here is a comparison between some system implementations of wxStaticText::GetLabel.
Code is taken from the CVS for 2.8.2 Pre-release, but should not be different for 2.8.0 (and we will probably be moving to 2.8.2 soon anyway)
<br />
click here if you can’t see the above iframe
This is a post for the wxCocoa@Brookes team.

Tags:

Compsoc

October 13th, 2006 No Comments

So I am teaching some C, some Object Oriented Techniques and some Objective-C to a bunch of computing students. I am kinda looking forward to it, because I really want to get into tutoring and research (and maybe eventually lecturing). This is for the computing society, because we have an open source project to do.
At […]

Tags:

Obj-C

October 9th, 2006 No Comments

Howdie everyone!
If anyone has Objective-C experience and would like to be involved in an Open Source Project then please let me know. Thankies.
I need sleep… but there are more important things right now.
Talk soon

Tags:

Student Guiding

September 19th, 2006 No Comments

I am really enjoying being a guider. I love to help people, especially in a student environment. I have met some really cool people.
Hopefully the new computing freshers will join up to the Brookes Computing Society. We have set up a few events (inc. a LAN gaming event), and I hope to get a good […]

Tags:

Brookes Computing Society Shop

September 17th, 2006 No Comments

The computing society now has a shop selling clothes and gifts thanks to Vanir Systems. Its linked in with the wiki, the forum and the main page. But here is the direct page:
http://www.brookescomputingsociety.org/shop.html
Its all going well, the freshers should start appearing tomorrow. In fact, i know that they will. I am doing the Guiding for […]

Tags:

Brookes Computing Society

September 15th, 2006 No Comments

I have just sorted out the Brookes Computing Society Website:
http://www.brookescomputingsociety.org/
We now have:

A Wiki powered by MediaWiki, which will be the main part of the site
A Forum powered by Vanilla Forum

It is also being hosted by the Computing Department at Brookes. Its on a server called Tardis (a Sun Microsystems Machine powered by Debian).
I guess I […]

Tags: