Netsoc

Interested in expanding your programming horizon? Make it look a bit more like a painting instead of a doodle on the side of your notebook with some ‘m’ shapes for birds? Come along to our Erlang tutorial! For this week we will be giving a tutorial on Erlang. It’s a functional programming language that’s easy to learn, but has incredible support for building robust, concurrent applications that can easily scale from single computers to distributed environments.

• Time: Tuesday 25th November, 7PM
• Place: Beckett Labs, Arts Block

We will be holding a tutorial for everyone’s favourite programming language, Python. Python is highly awesome for a number of reasons: It’s easily installed on Windows, you can use it for quick calculations, it comes with a very cool interpreter (you can write programs on the fly), and there is an easy to understand syntax! If you’re interested in starting programming, this is a great place to, well, start!

• Time: Tuesday 18th November, 7PM
• Place: Beckett Labs, downstairs in the Arts Block

Netsoc will host a talk on Tuesday evening to raise awareness of the risks associated with internet use, and to show you the various ways in which your privacy and rights online can be violated. The focus of the talk will be how to protect yourself when using the net.

We’ll give you an overview of the dangers of putting your personal information online, and how you can reduce the risk of it being stolen or misused. We’ll talk about the risks involved with social networking and how to reduce them, how to use encryption to securely transfer information, how to use proxies to surf the web anonymously, how to protect the information on your own computer, and how to minimise the amount of personal data you put on the web, whether accidentally or intentionally.

Everyone is very welcome, and the talk is aimed at the casual internet user, so no technical knowledge is needed beyond basic computer literacy! We do hope you’ll come along.

This talk is free, as with all Netsoc tutorials — however, you must sign up for this tutorial by mailing nosmo [at] netsoc.tcd.ie expressing your interest.

• Time: Tuesday 11th November, 7PM
• Place: Beckett Labs, Arts Block (beside the tables downstairs)

The Bash Scripting tutorial which was cancelled last week is going ahead on Tuesday! Continuing in our efforts to show you how to control the Internet, this tutorial is entitled “Basic Bash Bootcamp”. Bash is the scripting language of choice for most modern operating systems, making this tutorial particularly apt for anyone studying anything related to computing.

Bash is deceptively easy to pick up, and has a myriad of uses, helping you automate those boring tasks, such as resizing images or updating your website. Come along to the Beckett Labs at 7 to learn more!

• Time: Tuesday 4th November, 7PM
• Place: Samuel Beckett Labs, downstairs in the Arts Block

Netsoc will be running a “Beginning Website Design” tutorial in the Beckett Labs, downstairs in the Arts Block. Come along, learn how websites are made, how you can make your own and how you might not even have to write anything to make it look great!

• Time: Tuesday 21st October, 8PM
• Place: Beckett Labs, Arts Block