DUCSS

Age of Empires Tournament
Over the next few weeks, DUCSS will be hosting an Age of Empires II tournament. If you are interested in taking part, email us (ducss@csc.tcd.ie) by Sunday and I will sign you up.
There will be a prize for the winners along with a certificate and, of course, bragging rights.

Telecomms Tutorial
Ben Doyle, will be hosting a revision of Second Year Computer Science Telecomms. If you need a bit of help or even just want to refresh your memory stop by. It will take place this Tuesday at 5pm in LB04.

– Back-to-College Movie and Pub Night –
First of all this week we are hosting a back-to-college night featuring a showing of the great Pixar film WALL-E, which will be followed by a trip to the Longstone pub for platters and general revelry. The film will be shown at 6pm this Thursday in the Macneill lecture theatre, make sure to come along for some laughs and food afterwards.

– Better Room PCs –
Santa paid a visit to DUCSS over the break too and was nice enough to gift us with some shiny new parts for the room PCs. We have one brand new system along with three of the machines receiving upgrades, and even one new screen! On top of this the room has been given a general clear-out and there is now noticeably less clutter scattered around.

– Games Tournaments ?? —
A number of our members have expressed an interest in having DUCSS gaming tournaments hosted over the space of a few days or even weeks, and we think this is a great idea. If you would be interested in participating in a tournament for any games, please email us (ducss@csc.tcd.ie) with your name and a list of the games you’d like to see played. Titles suggested so far have been the likes of Starcraft 2, League of Legends and Age of Empires 2. If there’s enough demand for any one game we’ll do our best to organise a tournament for it so do make sure to give us your opinions.

Hope everyone had a fantastic holiday/Christmas break.

-Zoosoc Talk-
Just a reminder about the talk we are co-hosting with Zoosoc entitled “Digital Life” about modelling animal populations. It will be taking place in Museum Room 20 at 6pm on Tuesday (13th) .

-Christmas Party-
We will be having our annual Computer Science Christmas party this Thursday. It will be commencing in the O’Reilly Foyer for refreshments at 6pm until 8pm. We are then heading to MacTorcaills pub for food until 10:30. Finally we will be going to the Twisted Pepper night club for the rest of the night. Don’t forget to give us your name in the O’Reilly on the night for cheaplist to the Twisted Pepper. Entry is normally €10 but on the cheaplist it is €8.

-DUCSS Room Reminder-
If you have left any possessions in the DUCSS room, please remove them before the end of term as we will be clearing out a lot of stuff over the Christmas break.

-User Usage Policy-
From Tuesday the 13th, a new acceptable usage policy will be put in place which you must agree to in order to use our servers.

-Redbrick DCU lan-
Redbrick of DCU have asked us to inform you of a lan they are hosting on the 17th of December in the Helix DCU. If any of you are interested, check out their website: redbrick.dcu.ie.

HAVE A GREAT CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS EVERYONE!!

-Ice Skating-
**CHANGES – Was 9€ for 1hr Skating and no drink, either pick-up 3€ change from DUCSS Room or get some of a pitcher on the night! Meet at DUCSS at 6pm or 7pm at 7-up Winter Wonderland **

Ice skating has been organized for this Friday. Unfortunately, it has already been booked so for those who signed meet in DUCSS at 6pm on Friday or 7pm at the 7-Up Winter Wonderland which is located at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham (Near Heuston station) For details see: http://7upwinterwonderland.ie/ For those who didn’t get the money in on time, you can still buy tickets at the entrance but will be more expensive. Please see the website above.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/289547441083731/

-Intersocs Lan-
This Saturday the 10th, DUCSS and Netsoc are joint hosting an intersocs lan with a few other societies from different colleges. It’s bound to be our biggest lan yet! The games planned for this lan are League of Legends, COD4, Quake, Age of Empires and loads more. Bring any games you would like to play and a computer that runs them. Please bring your own power adapter if you need more than one plug socket. Also if you have network cables, bring them please.
The gaming begins at 6pm this Saturday in the Trinity Halls Canteen and will continue on through the night until 9am the next day. It’s going to be a lot of fun so try and stop by!

-Zoosoc Talk-
On Tuesday the 13th we are collaborating with Zoosoc to bring you a talk on the Modelling of Animal Populations. This talk will take place at 6pm in Museum Room 20. There will be more information to follow

-Christmas Party-
The annual Computer Science Christmas party will be taking place on Thursday the 15th of December. It will begin at 6pm in the O’Reilly foyer. Afterwards, we will be going on to the Longstone pub and then The Twisted Pepper for those who are interested. There will be more information to follow.

-Soul Calibur 4 Tournament Results-
Our gaming tournament last week was a big success! Congratulations to our winner Mark. Also, well done to our second and third places – Owen and Cian. Thank you to everyone who participated. Be sure to check in for more gaming tournaments in the future!

-The Awesomeness Methodology-
This week we have a very special event for you. This Thursday at 6pm, we will be hosting a talk by Mr. Robin Blandford entitled “The Awesomeness Methodology”. This talk involves how to generate great ideas for coding projects and software designs. This talk is a must for anyone looking to create a start-up business. Come along to get some great ideas for college, personal projects and your career and future! Meet in the DUCSS room at 6pm.

-Soul Calibur Tournament-
We are having a gaming tournament this Wednesday at 6pm in the DUCSS room. The game featured is a DUCSS favourite – Soul Calibur 4. There will be prizes for the winners, come along and show us what you can do.

-Linux Tutorial-
Ben Doyle’s Linux tutorial is being rehosted by popular demand this Friday at 3pm in East End Lab 3. He will be talking about topics such as basic Linux commands, how to use screen and accessing your U-drive from home.

On Friday, the DUCSS sysadmin, Ben Doyle is hosting a Linux tutorial at 3 in the East End Lab 3. He will be covering how to access your webspace from home, IRC and a refresh of screen for the first years. It would be great to see you there!

There are also two changes to the DUCSS Council, Stephen Rogers stepped down as Webmaster. We would like to thank him for all the work he has done. He is being replaced by Katharine Burton. Also Luke Marjoram is a new GO.

Thanks.

This Saturday, the kind folks over in Netsoc will be hosting a LAN out in Trinity Halls, in association with DUCSS. All our members are welcome to attend this glorious event which will take place from 6PM until 10AM the following morning. There are a few things you’ll need to bring along to get the most out of this event. The most important of these being a computer running windows and a extension lead for power. The night promises to be fun filled and packed full of jam.

This Friday, the wonderful Ian Hunter will be giving a tutorial in the superb language that is Java. This tutorial which will touch upon file IO, primitive types and Java basics will take place in East End Lab 3, from 3-4. This tutorial will be muchos beneficial for anyone studying the language and all are encouraged to attend.

This post comes to you in I don’t know how many parts (future Rogers here, there’s 3 parts), there’s lots so we’ll see how we go.

First off, this Wednesday (tomorrow if you’re reading this today or today if you’re reading this tomorrow) DUCSS will be hosting a movie night in conjunction with our besties over in Netsoc and DCU’s Redbrick. This movie night, with a delicious horror theme will consist of Alien and Dawn of the Dead. It will take place at 6-10PM in the Joly Theatre. How thrilling!

This Friday (the day after the day after tomorrow if you’re reading this today or the day after the day after the day after yesterday if you’re reading this tomorrow) Dave Fennel and Eva Leonard will be giving a DLD tutorial for all our first year Computer Science members. If there’s anything you want covered in this exciting tutorial you can email ducss@csc.tcd.ie with your suggestions. The tutorial will take place at 2PM in East End Lab 3.

Sometime next week (the day after the day after… I’m not doing this again) Ian Hunter will be giving a Java tutorial for members studying this wonderful language, so if there’s anything you want to see covered in this tutorial you can drop us a line at the email address mentioned above.

Huzzah!

The 4th week of Michaelmas term, a time of jollification, merrymaking and platter-filled fun! This week DUCSS have organised a bucket full, nay, a boat load of entertainment just for you. The week’s festivities are laid out as such:

Monday

We will be hosting a talk with the gaming company Demonware. A representative from the company will talk about job opportunities and internships with them and also highlight what the company does in the video gaming world. The talk will be held at 6pm in the Maxwell Theatre and all are welcome to attend.

Tuesday

Do you like video games? How about Robbie Molloy? Of course you do! And as such, this event is the one for you. During 2 tutorials this week, Robbie will showing you how to design and create your own video games. In this first installment, Robbie will run through how to make objects and get them to move and also how to handle user input. The tutorial will take place from 5-7pm in East End Lab 3.

Thursday

Part 2 of Robbie’s gaming tutorial will be taking place on this fine day. Same time, same place, more fun. At least we hope it’ll be more fun, can’t guarantee these things. I mean, it’ll be so much fun it will make bouncy castles seem like sitting next to a crying baby on a 12 hour flight.

Friday

Here at DUCSS, we love 2 things. We love prizes and more importantly, we love giving those prizes to you. That’s why on Friday we will be celebrating the finest games from Robbie’s tutorials by awarding their creators with prizes! Great isn’t it? This awesome event will take place in the Lloyd Common Room at 5pm.