As the Islamic month of Ramadan has started. Islamische HochschulGruppe (IHG) has planned to organize Iftars on campus for the students who are fasting. Our council thinks it is really nice that such gatherings are supported by the university.
Next Iftar is going to take place at Aula this Thursday, 6th April at around 20:00 You can join by registration (mandatory) at this link: Iftar-ihg.eventbrite.com
Dear Students, the Computer Science Students Council invites you to our MfCS1-revision course (“Repetitorium”), which will be held between March 20th and 22nd. It’s a daily event from 14:00 to 20:00. The Repetitorium is a voluntary preparatory course for the re-exam on March 28th. During the Repetitorium, you have the chance to work together on new exercises and ask questions to our tutors. Furthermore, we will provide a preparatory exam on March 21st and discuss the solutions afterwards. Please fill out the survey, which is published on the lecture CMS Side. If you have any questions, feel free to write me an email to doering@cs.fs.uni-saarland.de.
This Friday the 10th of march at 6pm we will host our game night in the MMCI (E 1.7.). We have snacks and drinks and during the evening we will order pizza and more. You are welcome to bring your favorite board games or game consoles.
As some of you might know, we collected donations for the Kältebus Saarbrücken e.V. and the Tafel Saarbrücken e.V. during our last Winter Party. More than 400 Euro have been donated! Many thanks to all who donated – also in the name of Tafel and Kältebus!
We are happy to announce that our breakfast is back in the new year. As always, we have a variety of food to offer. Oh, and coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.
When? 8th February from 9:30am Where? E1.3 room 109 (students council room)
After the long Corona break, we are happy to finally be able to organise the (hopefully from now on) annual Winter Party again.
It will take place on Tuesday, December 06, from 10 am in our student council rooms (above the iCoffee). There will be mulled wine, children’s punch, hot cocoa, waffles and crêpes. Since Christmas is just around the corner both rooms will be decorated accordingly (rumour has it that you can even eat the decorations). We cordially invite you to sit down in our rooms to forget a little about the upcoming mid-term exams and exercise sheets.
Of course, all this is 100% free of charge for you, as always, but we are happy to accept a donation to the Tafel Saarbrücken (food bank) or the Kältebus Saarbrücken (shelter for homeless people). We would like to support them in their work assisting people in need.
The event is kindly sponsored by ELO Digital Office. If you are also a nerd at heart, take a look at www.nerdy-at-heart.com.
Dear students of the computer science study programmes!
From now on until Friday (10pm CET) you have the opportunity to elect your new students’ representative council. This year’s election will be again held online, so participation is easily possible.
You can find the 20 candidates for the students’ council and their motivation profiles here:
The ballot count will take place on December 5th at 7:00 pm publicly via Microsoft Teams. Use the following join code (Teams > Join a team): pqt2z13
In case of problems please contact the AStA student council department at fachschaften@asta.uni-saarland.de . If you have any further questions, please contact us or the student council department at the AStA.
Professor Maggio and Professor Valera were called to other universities.
To keep them, their research and their lectures here at the university, we as the students council organise a torch run and invite you all to join us.
The torch run starts on Wednesday November 30 at 4pm at the Platz der Informatik in front of building E1 3 to convince them to remain at our university.
With December coming right up, some of you may already be eager to open their advent calendars. For those of you who may not have an advent calendar, or are up to some challenge for the december month, we would like to introduce to you: “Advent of Code”
Advent of Code (AoC) is an advent calendar consisting of small programming puzzles and challenges that you can solve in any programming language you would like. Each day you are presented with a small puzzle consisting of two parts, allowing you to earn up to 2 stars for each day. Don’t worry if you don’t have much or any previous experience in competitive programming or coding challenges in general. The puzzles are built in a way that most of them can be solved simply by critical and logical thinking. Additionally all puzzles are embedded in a cute little backstory (As opposed to the dark backstory of Dieter Schlau for everyone who visited a previous iteration of Competitive Programming) to motivate you to help Santa Claus save Christmas, so really in the end you don’t only do the challenges to obtain stars but also you do it for the plot.
While you do not need to be an exemplary student of AlgoDat or Competitive Programming to take part in AoC, for those of you that are into that, there of course also is a competitive aspect to the whole deal. The first 100 persons that finish a puzzle can earn points on the global leaderboard. Additionally we as the Students’ Council have setup a private leaderboard you can join to see how you rank against other students at SIC. However, be aware that the puzzles always release at 6:00 AM Saarbrücken Time, so getting on the leaderboard may only really be a matter of being dedicated to get up early in addition to being fast.
We believe that Advent of Code is a great opportunity for all students to challenge themselves on different problems and can vastly help you to improve your programming skills and is a perfect addition for anyone taking Programming I or really, any student of SIC.
Advent of Code starts at December 1st and ends on December 25th. For more information visit the AoC’s website at: https://adventofcode.com/
Important Disclaimer: Advent of Code is in no way hosted or organized by the Students’ Council. We just really like it and want to promote it to our students!
At the semester kick off event the student council hands out the busy beaver award.
We congratulate Dr. Michael Schwarz for his basic lecture Foundations of Cyber Security II, Prof. Dr. Martina Maggio for her core lecture Embedded Systems, and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hack for his seminar Build an 8-bit Computer from Scratch.
All winner of the previous semester can be found here
