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            <title><![CDATA[First Year Practicals and Steam Communities]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:34:07 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[SE1SA5]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[community]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[counter strike]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[games]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[programming]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[video]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[steam]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Just finished programming practical 3. I&#39;m getting the hang of this quite quickly now (especially for a programming newbie like me). I suppose trying it out beforehand on my computer back at the halls helped out a fair bit. When I first read the sheet, I thought it&#39;ll be madness, with a program full of formula. Turns out it&#39;s just a simple process multiplication; next time I&#39;ll have to remember to read the sheet properly. But I&#39;m still proud of the outcome.</p><p>What I <em>really</em> like about programming is the outcome. Despite it being unexplainably basic, it still feels like I&#39;ve created a masterpiece; I&#39;ve always felt that way whenever I create on the computer (be it flash animating or likewise).</p><p>On a completely different note. In vain attempt to solve my previous horrors (<em>lack of friends here at Reading</em>), I&#39;ve created a Steam Community for students of Reading. For those of who are interested, it&#39;s called &quot;The University of Reading Gamers&quot; or &quot;UoRG&quot; for short.</p><p>Feel free to join no matter what you&#39;re studying, or what games you play (even if you don&#39;t play games). I just want a nice gaming community online to meet new people. Feel free to tell <strong><em>everyone</em></strong> about the community. Once plenty of people have joined, regular games will be hosted (Counter Strike: Source anyone?), and I do have links to compete against other Universities in team games!</p><p>Also. I&#39;ll leave you with&nbsp;a burning question. Why is there no Video Gaming Society?</p>]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Practical 2 ~ SE1SA5]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:39:21 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[programming]]></dc:subject>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>Practical 2. Complete a short quiz and&nbsp;submit an idea for a question <em>for</em> the quiz.</p><p>When it comes to knowledge of C, I&#39;m at the back of the queue. I&#39;ve done <em>a little </em>programming before, but not enough to actually make much of a difference (I&#39;ve only done teeny snippets in Visual Basic). However I do know how to interpret the coding and point out useful stuff, which I suppose is useful.</p><p>This test wasn&#39;t actually too difficult. I&nbsp;scored 80% without using my notes first time round. A few questions I had to stop and think, or use the process of elimination, but my result at the end makes me feel like I know a fair bit about basic programming. <em>Awesome.</em></p><p><em>Creating</em> a question is a new one for me actually, I&#39;ve never had a situation where I could actually submit a question idea for this quiz. Good stuffs.</p><p>I enjoyed this practical, which makes a change because it&#39;s the first thing for me in the morning,&nbsp;any other lecture and I would be extremely grumpy.</p>]]></description>
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