Summer 2013 - Workshops

Sign up online: Summer 2013 Workshop Signup

Deadline to sign up is Friday, April 26th at 4pm.

Modern Web Design

An introductory course on how to use modern techniques to create beautiful things for the web. The course will cover HTML5, CSS, grid layouts, UI frameworks and some introduction to Javascript, jQuery and other libraries that allow you to create interactive content.

Class will meet Thursday evenings from 7-9pm starting May 2nd. $50 students, $100 non-students. Instructor: Ian Bishop.

Web Wizardry Workshop

Now in its third term, this fun, low-key group workshop will take the "magic" out of programming for the web. Course projects for the summer term will revolve around creating a microblogging platform – think Twitter, but without the celebrity oversharing.

Workshop will meet Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8pm starting May 1st. Students only, free of charge. Instructor: Prof. Rick Wightman.

Perl: A Primer

perl -lpe 's/\s*$//'

Looks like someone fell asleep coding again? In fact, the above would remove the trailing whitespace from a given line or lines. Find out how falling asleep on your keyboard can work for you: This workshop will explore the Perl programming language and compare techniques for executing tasks in Perl vs. in Java. Expand your coding horizons!

Workshop will meet Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 7:30pm starting May 7th. Students only, free of charge. Instructor: Ryan Wark.

Questions? Email cssquare@unb.ca or stop by GE116.

Winter 2013 - East Coast Startup Week

East Coast Startup Week will take place March 20th - 24th, 2013.

Springboard Speaker Series

Wednesday, March 20th
1:00pm - 4:30pm
Fredericton Convention Center

Get inspired! Speakers for this series include Dan Martell of Clarity.fm, Zach Holman of GitHub, and more. Find full speaker listing and bios here.

Tickets: $20, purchase online here.

Pond-Deshpande Centre 20 Mentor Minutes Day

Thursday, March 21st
9:00am - 3:30pm
Fredericton Convention CEnter

Got an entrepreneurial idea you would like some expert feedback on? Apply for this opportunity to pitch your idea and receive a series of 20 minute feedback sessions with high profile mentors. The day will close with a pitch competition between the top four ideas. See a schedule of the day here.

16 participants will be chosen for this event. Apply online here.

Pond-Deshpande Centre / "Changes" Social Enterprise Development Dialog

Thrudsay, March 21st and Friday, March 22nd
5:00pm - 9:30pm on Thursday; 8:30am - 4:30pm on Friday
Fredericton Inn

This two-day workshop is packed with opportunities to learn about the role of entrepreneurship in the non-profit sector. Find the full program here.

Tickets: $40 special student price, $125-$195 regular price; purchase online here.

TME Lunch & Learn

Friday, March 22nd
12:30pm - 1:30pm
UNB Campus, Old Head Hall room H-224

Dan Martell (bio) will be talking about the "5 Entrepreneurial Beliefs".

Admission is free and all are welcome!

Startup Weekend

Friday, March 22nd - Sunday, March 24th
Starts at 6:00pm
UNB Campus, Alumni Memorial Building (13 Bailey Drive)

Build a startup in 54 hours! Startup Weekend presents an incredible opportunity to team up with other coders, designers and businesspeople to bring an idea to life.

How it works:

"All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback."

You bring: Yourself, your energy, your ideas!
Startup Weekend provides: Food, snacks, teammates, coaching and support.
More details...

Tickets: $57 students, $75 non-students. Use the promo code STUDENT at checkout to receive the discount! Purchase tickets online here.

More East Coast Startup Week Events

Additional events include the NBIF Breakthru Awards Dinner and the PropelICT Launch36 Demo Day. Consider attending these events if you'd like to see what others in the entrepreneurship community are up to!

Winter 2013 - CS Square Panel Discussion -
"Startup Story: UserEvents"

Date: Wednesday, February 27th

Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Location: Gillin Hall, Room GC122

Formed in Fredericton in 2012, UserEvents brings a new approach to Big Data challenges, allowing organizations to discover and engage with customer experiences in real-time. Read more at www.userevents.com

UserEvents CTO and co-founder Trevor Bernard and Senior Developers Josh Comer and Ian Bishop will share their experiences forming and working with a brand new startup offering a technically cutting-edge product. Bring your questions for the Q&A session!

Pizza and soda will be served at 4:30pm with the panel starting shortly after.

Consider arriving early for a Seminar Series presentation by Angus Fletcher on Managing Concurrency with Software Transactional Memory. Seminar begins at 3:30pm in GC122.

Panelist Bios:

Trevor Bernard - Co-founder / CTO

Trevor specializes in deep-dive programming problems that require high performance on the JVM and are distributed in nature. He has a strong track record for building easy to use, highly technical software for enterprise customers.

Josh Comer - Senior Developer

Josh is an avid tea drinker, extreme morning person, and a Clojure guru. His perfect morning is developing an elegant solution to a hard problem, whilst drinking a hot cup of Lapsang souchong.

Ian Bishop - Senior Developer

Ian is a software developer who enjoys hacking in Ruby, Javascript & Clojure. When not working at UserEvents, he helps with workshops and hackathons at CS Square.

Questions? Email cssquare@unb.ca or stop by GE116.

Winter 2013 - Workshops

Sign up online: Winter 2013 Workshop Signup

Deadline to sign up is Friday, January 18th at 4pm

Web Wizardry Workshop

This fun, low-key group workshop will take the "magic" out of programming for the web. Topics covered may include javascript, python, shell scripting, dealing with web servers and managing web content.

Class will meet Monday afternoons from 3:30-4:30pm starting January 21st. No cost, no prerequisite - first-years welcome! Instructor: Prof. Rick Wightman.

Perl: A Primer

perl -lpe 's/\s*$//'

Looks like someone fell asleep coding again? In fact, the above would remove the trailing whitespace from a given line or lines. Find out how falling asleep on your keyboard can work for you: This short course will give a brief overview of scripting, regular expressions and file I/O, all while introducing a highly flexible, programmer friendly language.

Class will meet Tuesday afternoons from 4-5pm starting January 22nd. No cost. Prerequisite: CS 1073. Instructor: Ryan Wark.

Getting Started With Android Development

Learn the basics of Android app development, including environment setup, application life cycle, UI design/construction, activities/intents, and views/widgets.

Class will meet Tuesday evenings from 7-9pm starting January 22nd. $50 students, $100 non-students. Prerequisite: Working knowledge of Java (CS 1073 required; CS 1083 recommended) Instructor: Nick Fitzpatrick.

Employability Crash Course

Designed for 1st and 2nd year students preparing to go out on a co-op workterm, this six week crash course will cover the more practical aspects of professional software development. Be better prepared for the expectations of your potential employers with an overview of source control, testing tools and more.

Class will meet Thursday evenings at 7pm starting January 24th. No cost, no prerequisite - intended for first and second year students. Instructor: Ian Bishop.

Questions? Email cssquare@unb.ca or stop by GE116.

Fall 2012 - FDUG November: Windows Store Apps

Fredericton Developer User Group (FDUG) presents a talk on Windows app development.

Date: Wednesday, November 21st

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: ITC 317

Presenter: Gerard Gallant

Details: In this session, Gerard will provide an overview of creating a C# Windows Store app (formerly known as Windows 8 'metro' apps) with a WebView control, integrating a settings flyout into the Windows Settings charm, using RoamingSettings to share settings across devices your app is installed on, and passing data from JavaScript to the C# code.

Speaker Bio: Gerard Gallant has been a developer with Dovico Software for 11 years. Always looking for an opportunity learn, he has taught himself several languages and technologies ranging from Visual C++, C#, and Java to WCF, NUnit, and Jenkins. Twitter: @Gerard_Gallant

Online registration is required as seating is limited - register here if you plan to attend!

Fall 2012 - Volunteer Opportunity: AppInventor

This is a volunteer/outreach opportunity for students to work with CS Square and the Fredericton Developer User Group to put together a workshop for high-schoolers or first years in other faculties, designed around MIT's AppInventor.

AppInventor is designed to allow students to create Android apps without prior programming experience - watch a video about the program here.

Curriculum is already available for AppInventor classes, so we are looking for volunteers to help select material for a 1 or 2 hour session, and/or facilitate local workshop delivery.

To get involved, please email cssquare@unb.ca by Friday, November 16th!

Fall 2012 - Discussion Circle #4: Project Opportunities

Find out how to get involved with faculty projects, student start-ups, and volunteer opportunities.

Date: Thursday, October 18th

Time: 5:30pm

Location: ITC 317

Faculty projects:
Dawn MacIsaac - Instructional Technologies
Joe Horton - Simulating Conciousness in Artificial Life

Student startups:
Ebuka Nwachukwu - Photo web application that works with Twitter's API
Sarbjyot Bains - ArtiSense: Bridging the creative and corporate worlds

Volunteer opportunity:
In collaboration with CS Square and the Fredericton Developer User Group, help introduce local students to CS with MIT's App Inventor

All FCS students are welcome!

Fall 2012 - Hackathon #3: Hands-on Ruby Development

All FCS students welcome! Bring your laptop if you have one. Pizza and pop will be served!

Date: Saturday, October 27th

Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: CS Square (GE124)

Fall 2012 - Demo Day #1

Attendees of the Summer 2012 'Getting Started with Android Development' Workshop demonstrated their work from the course.

Date: Wednesday, September 26th

Time: 6:30pm

Location: ITD 414 (Windows Lab)

Fall 2012 - Web Wizardry Workshop

Prof. Wightman led an eight-week workshop covering such topics as javascript, python, shell scripting, dealing with web servers and managing web content.

This fun, low-key group workshop was designed to take the "magic" out of programming for the web.

Dates: Mondays Sept 17th - Nov 12th (8 weeks, no class Oct 8th)

Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Location: CS Square - GE 124

Summer 2012 - Discussion Circle #2: Project Opportunities with FCS Faculty Members

Faculty of Computer Science students were invited to learn about project opportunities with Professors Joe Horton (Simulating Consciousness in Artificial Life) and Dawn MacIsaac (Instructional Technologies).

Date: Thursday, August 2nd

Time: 11:45am - 12:45pm

Location: CS Square - Gillin Hall GE124

This event was open to all FCS students

Summer 2012 - Discussion Circle #1: The Undergraduate Student's Entrepreneurial Skillset

Students, faculty and staff joined Dr. Ali Ghorbani in a one-hour Discussion Circle in the CS Square space.

Date: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Location: UNB Fredericton Campus, Gillin Hall GE124.

Featured Topic: Besides the ability to function on little to no sleep, what skills do undergraduate students need to focus on to prepare for the life of an entrepreneur? Where can these skills be practiced in and out of the classroom?

This event was free and open to all.

Winter 2012 - Hackathon #0

Participants learned to use source control for open-source projects.

Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012

Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: CS Square

This event was open to UNB FCS students