http://bgscc.wikidot.com/forum/t-62030/ncss-challenge

http://challenge.ncss.edu.au

Note that username changing is not the best idea, as it can turn confusing. Especially if you change it to something completely unidentifiable, and/or change your avatar at the same time. If you really have to, announce it on the news forum.

Also, don't be worried about these things. They are just a new karma measuring thing.

I would also like to apologize for not informing people of my decision. I promise that if I ever become a forum mod again that I will not repeat these mistakes.

Any who doubt shall die.

 def qsort(L): if L == []: return [] return qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x< L[0]]) + L[0:1] + qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x>=L[0]]) 

If you would like to participate in a 5-week web-based course next term to learn the python programming language and how awesome it is, then sign up for the annual National Computer Science School (NCSS) Challenge. I did it last year and came 6th, along with Ben Trubshaw who came 8th, and others. And I will almost certainly do it again this year.

I think the school will pay the entrance fee, which I will confirm later on, so don't worry about that…

Seriously, Python is awesome, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Really. Register at http://challenge.ncss.edu.au/ . I recommend it to all.

Oh, and you don't need to know any programming theory before hand. It'll teach you it all. Questions welcome.

..J

Blender 3D: Friday Afternoon

C++: Thursday Afternoon

Build a Computer: Wednesday Afternoons starting Next Week

1. I've put up a GUI to-do list on the Todo page. Checkboxen to quickly mark off new and done to do's.
2. The news page is now a page which grabs the most recent forum posts from "News" and throws them up formatted into a clean, neat page.
3. The Front Page grabs the most recent 5 of all forum posts, and the most recent news item from this category and embeds them down the bottom.
4. The Minutes page now has an auto-generated list of the 15 most recently made minutes. It also has a form to create a new minutes page.
5. Site members can now invite other people to join, using this page. You can send off an email to other people (preferably in the computer club) with a custom message, and they'll get a link to a page where they can create an account and be a member.
6. You can check how current members joined the site. Enter their name on the who invited page, and it will tell you how they joined, and who let them (unless they used the password).
7. We can set up a "petition". I'm not too sure it'll be of any use, but it's there (for admin use only) if you want it. An example of a wikidot petition is here: http://noooxml.org/petition.

If anyone else wants to do a bit of hunting around for useful junk, go to http://www.wikidot.com/doc

To find out more about this competition, visit the website:

http://www.computing.unsw.edu.au/progcomp/

or talk to Mr Connell or Jackson Gatenby.

This year, the competition will be run on Friday 13 June. Register a team of three between Tue 29 April and Fri 30 May with Mr Connell.

The Results for 2007: Team BGS_1 (Todd, Jackson, William) scored 45/60 points and were 1 point off getting a high distinction and a possible place in the finals.
Full Results Here

Previous competition questions for practice are here: http://www.computing.unsw.edu.au/progcomp/PreviousComps.php

The 2008 ACPC is on from 11 - 22 August. You can register in teams of 1-3 people.

More details on how you can register later in the year…

For more info, visit the ACPC website: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/deraadt/acc/index.html.

Practice Questions - http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/deraadt/acc/practice.html