Weekly Newsletter 18/02/2018

[Sahil Shah]

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AndroNG Hackathon Results As most of you would be aware, we had the AndroNG Android Development workshop last Saturday that was followed by a 2 day hackathon that ended on Monday. There were several stunning submissions and several teams had put in a great amount of effort and thought into their projects. The First Prize was bagged by Sourav Lakhotia, Rishabh Jain and Ram Karela. Yash Sharma, Mithilesh and Mihir were runners-up while Prabhat SIngh, Harsh Maheshwai and Shivam Jaiswal came Third. Composition v/s Inheritance Here is a small blog post on Composition versus Inheritance which is one of the major concepts of the Entity concepts that play a central role in game development. The blog explains both individually in a comprehensive way, with examples. It also explains when to use which of them and can be helpful to anyone attempting to develop games. Check it out → How to get your iPhone to hang In other news, Apple did not expect Telegu speakers to use iPhones because the operating system crashes when it tries to render one particular Telegu letter. iOS struggle to render the symbol and any application that tries to do so freezes and eventually crashes.  Apple is currently working for a patch to fix this really weird bug. Read more about it→ Ethics and Computer Science In the wake of fake news and troubles at tech companies, universities that have contributed to some of Silicon Valley's pioneers are attempting to bring a medicine-like morality to computer science.  This semester, Harvard and MIT are jointly offering a new course on ethics and regulation of artificial intelligence. The University of Texas at Austin also introduced a course titled the "Ethical Foundations of Computer Science". They aim at making it compulsory for all Computer Science majors eventually. Read more about it → And now for the memes!

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