CS @ uWaterloo announcements

Devpost is the home for the world's hackathons, both virtual and in-person! Partnering with great organizations like Oculus, Uber, Evernote, Twitter, Twilio, Venmo, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and more, Devpost strives to bring you new opportunities to practice your skills, learn new technologies / APIs, work on interesting problems, and win some amazing prizes.   Hackathons are about learning and having fun, and it's our goal to make that happen! Amadeus Hack the Journey Online Edition ✈ Build the next big travel solution using Amadeus for Developers Self-Service APIs - Prizes: Over $10,000 in cash prizes - Deadline: July 29, 2019 - Learn more and register at hackthejourney.devpost.com - Slack line to get more help directly from the organization FireDrone.AI Hackathon 🔥 Build a functioning software solution using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning or Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services that enables drones to detect urban fires from a street lev...

You are invited to participate in research being conducted at the University of Guelph on the problem-solving behaviours of students in computer science. We are interested in explicitly teaching problem-solving skills to novice programmers. A first step in this research is to validate a survey tool that measures expert-like behaviours. For this step, we need your help! If you would like to help, please complete a short survey found here :  https://uoguelph.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_00b6YoMhYLrbnuJ .  You will be asked to provide consent, and then begin the survey. You will be asked to rank your agreement to a handful of statements. The average time to complete the survey is 2-3 minutes. Participation is completely voluntary and responses are anonymous. Please take a few minutes to support research in computer science education. 

PennApps is the United State's first hackathon hosted every semester at the University of Pennsylvania and we want you to apply to be a part of the action this fall -- apply at my.pennapps.com ! Apply by midnight on Monday, July 15th 11:59pm EST to have the opportunity to: · Win thousands of dollars worth of prizes - over 80K collectively up for grabs! · Enjoy free food and drinks for a weekend, plus a nice travel reimbursement! · Interact with amazing sponsors like Facebook, Google, Palantir, Airbnb, etc. in addition to collecting all the free swag! · Mingle and code with hackers like you from all over the world for 36 hours straight! · Attend our exciting workshops to learn more about web/app development, hardware, and real-world applications suited for beginners to gurus! · Attend fun side events including 5K race, smash tournaments, photo booth, etc.! · Become a part of PennApps history among other awesome hacks such as SubADubDub , GluClose , Spotted...

The next Waterloo-local ICPC-style programming contest will be held on Saturday, June 22 in MC 3003. All members of the UW community are invited to try their programming skill in Scheme, C, C++, Java, Pascal, Python, or Scala. For full details and online registration, please see:  http://acm.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/ T he contest will run from 1 pm sharp until 4 pm, and will be followed by pizza. There will be a practice contest in the morning to allow contestants, especially those competing for the first time, to get their account setup and become familiar with the contest environment. Contestants participating in the practice contest should arrive by 10:30 am in MC 3003. For out-of-town participants, it is possible to participate remotely using a web-based system, but local participants are encouraged to attend in person if possible.