Go is a modern systems programming language designed at Google by a bunch of clever people (including Ken Thompson who create UNIX and B, C’s predecessor, so you know it must be good.) It’s becoming a very popular language in a lot of spaces, especially on the web and in crypto. This talk will introduce you to the basics of the Go programming language including installation, making a project, and the language itself. Read more...

Ex-Development Secretary Daniel Cordell joins us for a talk: What they don’t teach you at Harvard business school in a tech degree.

Peter and James have a play with some old-ass Linux CDs we found.

Prepare your best heckles, as Jacob and Peter will be installing Arch Linux live at this event - what could possibly go wrong? The event will take place in the Exchange LT3 lecture theatre on Jubilee Campus.

Hello and welcome to our programming cafe events! This is a much more laid back event than our workshops and talks, just rock up and work on a project, and speak to other people about their projects! We’ll be encouraging people to do a brief show and tell towards the end, and you may end up spotlit in our newsletter! The event will take place in the Exchange Building C33 (provisionally, subject to room bookings. Read more...

In this talk Pete Gallagher takes you through everything you need to build a robot arm with a Raspberry Pi, .NET 5 a Blazor App and SignalR. We begin by talking about .NET 5 and seeing how easy it is to install .NET 5. Then we look through the various circuits and spin up a console application to explore how we can control the GPIO on the Pi. We see how the Servos are wired up and get the code in place to start moving our Raspberry pi based Robot Arm. Read more...

Learn how to use Docker with Peter in this workshop. This serves as a follow up to his talk from the first introduction event. A Linux laptop or virtual machine (Ubuntu or Debian is fine) is highly reccommended to follow along, especially as there are no computers in the room we’re using.

Come along to an introduction to Linux for those who haven’t used the operating system before. This talk will cover several areas: What is Linux? Why would I use Linux? What makes Linux different from other operating systems? How do I get started with Linux? Common gotcha situations. How to find help? The event will take place in the Exchange Building LT3

Hello and welcome to our programming cafe events! This is a much more laid back event than our workshops and talks, just rock up and work on a project, and speak to other people about their projects! We’ll be encouraging people to do a brief show and tell towards the end, and you may end up spotlit in our newsletter! The event will take place in the Exchange Building C33 (provisionally, subject to room bookings. Read more...

Come along to our first workshop of the year and learn how to make your own Discord bot using JavaScript! Prior knowledge of JavaScript or programming in general isn’t necessary, as we’ll be explaining everything as we go along. We’ll be using the discord.js library, which will be the main focus of the workshop. There’ll be a quick introduction to the discord.js library, and then you’re free to make whatever crazy idea you might have for a bot! Read more...