Archive | January, 2012
School Workshops at Oldmachar Academy
School Workshop visit to Oldmachar Academy today for workshops on Computer Networking and Building a Personal Computer. The workshops were given to a class of about twenty higher students. Oldmachar is about four & a half miles from the School of Computing at St Andrew Street. The Computer Networking workshop looked at the use of […]
Unity and Mac OSX File permissions Error
I came across a very odd problem this morning from a lecturer who was trying to make some Unity coursework. Its turns out in the end to be both a Mac OSX File permissions problem AND a Unity problem. No matter how they were opened we always came back to the same problem… There […]
Lab PC upgrade 2012
As part of our three year cycle to replace PC’s we had a modest update this year of 57 machines. 44 of these were for lab C27/28 in St Andrew Street. The boxes arrived on Friday 13th January and were hastily unpacked into another lab while the exams were going on. Once the exams […]
Dare to be Digital 2012 Applications Open
The Dare to be Digital applications for 2012 are now available. Dare to be Digital is an internationally renowned proving ground for talented computer science and art students to design their own original video game. Apply now and make your summer come to life! If you are interested in setting up […]