Month: February 2011

  • The Work of the Dead Coder Society Confirmed Through Oracle

    Oracle recently presented at Stockton through an event organized by the Stockton Computer Society. The presentation was titled, “Are You Ready For Graduation?” and explained what technology employers are looking for in student résumés. They’re looking for projects. Grades were important, and extracurricular activities were nice, but employers are looking for experience through projects. Projects […]

  • Introduction to MIPS Assembly: Doug Taggart

    Doug Taggart presented an introduction to the MIPS assembly language, as well as a general overview of coding in assembly. Assembly language is used to control microprocessors and micro-controllers, among other things. It has the smallest amount of abstraction from machine code, and it is quite easy to translate lines of assembly code into binary […]

  • Exploring Alton Auditorium with Andrew Hofstetter

    Andrew Hofstetter is a student worker for the technology department at Stockton and was able to provide the group with an extensive tour of Alton Auditorium.

  • Intro to R and New Ideas by Stan Schwertly featuring Joe Mora

    Stan Schwertly presented an introduction to the R programming language this week. R is used in statistics and mathematical applications, and can be useful for a variety of problems. The discussion reviewed reading in a comma-separated values file and interpreting the data with R. Input/Output into different file formats were covered, including exporting a graph […]