Presidential Address
Good morning everyone, hope you are well! Firstly, thank you everyone who came to our event last week where we built a basic web-based chat application based on a REST API (I made the API purely for teaching purposes - find it here). This was a huge success and in my opinion one of the best events we've done. I've decided to follow up this week by sticking on the same theme but making it more realistic using WebSockets instead of polling. Notice that this week's event is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday - this is because I'm attending an event about Cyber Security and Quantum Computing (read more here if you're interested). Depending on how this goes, I'm considering a permanent move to Thursdays in order to avoid clashing with CyberSoc's weekly events.
Last week, I also chaired a meeting with the other four CS-related societies (HackSoc, CyberSoc, DevSoc and AI Society) where we agreed to collaborate more closely to improve engagement, event visibility and possibly deliver collaborative events in the coming months. Keep an eye out for further developments on this but in the meantime, see you on Thursday!
This Week's Event
Mini Project: Using Websockets to make a Live Chat
Thursday 14th November 17:00 - 19:30 @ PZA/113
As I said above, last week's introduction to REST APIs via a chat application was a huge success! That's why this week, we're staying in a similar vain and learning about how WebSockets can enable proper real-time communication. I previously used this exact technology to make a real-time online game called the Pirate Game. I can certainly demo this if people are interested but we'll be focussing again on making a simple chat application. If you came to our event last week, you're welcome to adapt your own code; otherwise you'll still be able to follow - we'll have some template code to help you get up to speed quickly. Come and join us in PZA/113 with your laptop and we'll see you there!
Other than that, that's everything for this week. Have fun and see you soon!
Best Regards,
Will & The YorDevs Team
