CUSEC I.A.Q., Part One

By aran

What is an I.A.Q.?

Infrequently Asked Questions: I am making these up. Feel free to ask real questions in the comments.

Should I subscribe to the RSS feed right now?

Yes.

Why should I subscribe to the RSS feed?

If everything goes according to plan, you will find:

• Inside information on CUSEC 2009 milestones
• Entertaining stories from CUSEC past
• Interviews with CUSEC organizers

Should I come to CUSEC 2009?

Yes.

Why should I come to CUSEC 2009?

CUSEC 2009 will be the best software engineering conference ever. 

How do you know CUSEC 2009 will be the best software engineering conference ever?

I use past events to predict the future. CUSEC 2008 was the best conference for software engineers, ever, and the CUSEC 2009 team works hard to make this year’s conference even better.

Don’t take my word for it: Check out what Tim Bray, founder of Open Text Corporation and head of Web Technologies at Sun, had to say. You should listen to him because he has a Wikipedia article.

Subscribe to the RSS feed for more links to famous people saying good things about CUSEC.

In C, how do I declare a pointer to a function that takes a pointer and an int as parameters and returns a pointer to an array?

Check out the “cdecl” tool. It’s neat.

Also come to CUSEC.

And subscribe to the RSS feed.

What if I want a pointer to a function that receives a pointer to a function of its own type as a parameter?

Use a typedef.

And subscribe to the RSS feed.

The Best Conference for Software Engineers

By aran

If you wanted to organize the best conference for software engineers, what would you do?

Would you invite the most notable innovators in the business? I would invite people like Joel Spolsky, Kent Beck, Kathy Sierra, Zed Shaw and Jeffrey Ullman.

Would you bring together academia’s best educators and the industry’s top companies? I would ask companies like Infusion, Microsoft, Google, IBM, SAP and Autodesk to participate. Then I’d bring in top professors from schools such as Toronto, Waterloo, Stanford, UBC and Concordia.

Would you create an environment where a whole country’s best software engineering students meet and mingle and hack code and have fun? I would invite everyone to Montreal.

Hm. Sounds familiar.

Me, I would just start a blog. Subscribe now for the inside scoop on CUSEC 2009.

Welcome to CUSEC 2009!

By admin

Hi everyone and welcome to the 2009 edition of the Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC) website. We’ll soon be blogging about CUSEC and Software related topics so stay in touch!

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