Week 3 Update

[Sam Olmsted]

Hello Everyone,

Third week of the summer.

Once again, if you don't see your name and you are working on
something or would like to please let me know. Also, please feel free
to share this email.


-- Development (for more information see the wiki)

* Daniel Lyons
Working on Haskell parsers for DFA, PDA, and Turing machines, for the
new Turing category.

* Oran
Working on DFA solutions.

* Tony
Finished three puzzles. Continuing to work on new Linux based puzzles
for a new category, to help teach people about the command line.

* Ian
System designs for a contest framework (working with John).

* John
System design and programming for a contest framework (working with
Ian). John has added a few more features.
http://home.iteqnm.com:8090/ctf/index.php

* Ying + Daniel Fairweather
Working on crypto puzzles.


-- Resources

* Teaching the Principles of the Hacker Curriculum to Undergraduates
Dartmouth has a program SISMAT that we might want to try and copy.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1734263.1734303&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=106530264&CFTOKEN=39030285
http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/events/sismat/

* Using Hacking to Teach Computer Science Fundamentals
Another program that we should emulate.
stl.asee.org/papers_2010/oconnor.pdf


-- Competitions

* UNM
Still set for the 23rd. Daniel has a nice poster for the event, which
I have included.

* Santa Fe
We are still waiting to here back from SFCC.


-- ACM
* Annual Report
I need to fill out our annual report.