ACM Meeting: “Critical Thinking Puzzles” and DRM C++Senior Design Project

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held April 3, at 4:30pm in LH 133.

Like critical thinking?  This Friday, the guys who brought you bitloot will show you how to code critical thinking puzzles that scale to thousands of users on the web.  Your puzzles will run live on our social news site and will help us filter good news from bad.  All levels of programming experience welcome.

Free drinks will be provided!

Special Announcement: Get CS Credit for DRM Senior Design Team Project:

Interested in helping reach other for Christ using cutting-edge software radio?

The 2009-2010 DRM team needs you!

Roles will include:

• C++/Matlab programming for diversity requirements (this will likely include some parallel programming)
• VHDL programming on the Xilinx FGPA

You will get class credit for your work and can likely replace some CS courses such as Program Translation. For more information about replacing CS classes, talk to Dr. Baas.

For more information and to see some videos of the software you would be working with see the LETU DRM Project Website: http://www.letu.edu/opencms/opencms/_Academics/Engineering/engineering/student-projects/drm/index.html

Interested? Then be sure to attend the DRM Recruitment Meeting this Thursday. You’ll be able to talk to the team and learn more.

When: 1:30pm this Thursday, April 2^nd.

Where: Berry Auditorium in Glaske

I plan to replace Program Translation with working with the DRM team this Fall.

I’ll bring some brochures to the meeting Friday.

I hope you can make it!

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

LETU ACM Meeting: Friday @ 4:30 – Game engineering pipeline

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held this Friday, March 27, at 4:30pm in *LH 130B* (small advanced PC lab).

Come hear Josh Bruning present on “Game engineering pipeline (game design, content creation, development, publishing/selling)”

Josh will take use through the general process of creating and publishing a game so that we’ll have access to a complete set of tools to make a game and get it licensed.

Last Spring, Josh Bruning presented an exciting series on XNA Game Development in addition to serving as the ACM President.

Free drinks will be provided!

ACM Officer Elections announcement:
We plan to have ACM Officer elections on Friday, April 17th (our second to last meeting) so if you are interested in serving or know someone who is, please be sure to come, nominate, and vote. The ACM President, Vice-President, and Treasurer positions will need to be filled by new people so will be many opportunities to get involved.

I hope to see you on Friday,

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

No ACM Meeting Tomorrow or Next Week

Enjoy Spring Break! We’ll have our next meeting on March 27th. Josh Bruning will be speaking on Game Engineering Pipeline. More details later!

ACM Meeting – Friday @ 4:30 – Mac Application Development

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held Friday, March 6, at 4:30pm in *LH 130B* (small advanced PC lab).

Come hear Peter Kendall present on Macintosh application development.

Peter will be going over Cocoa with Objective-C for Macintosh application development along with Xcode, the IDE.

This will obviously require a Macintosh computer.  So because of the specificity of the topic, if you want to be involved, come with your own Mac.  Specifically, Peter requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher with the Developer tools installed already because he will not go over this in the meeting.  Even if you don’t have the above, come anyway and listen in.

Free drinks will be provided!

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President