term 2

overview

• UTS
  • Classes
  • Societies
  • Tech Fest
• Hack Club Stardance
• 
• Quick Bits

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Earlier this term, classes finished for the Autumn session, and results were released earlier this week on Monday.

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I got a credit in Communication for IT Professionals (god i hate this class) and a High Distinction in both Web Systems and Network Fundamentals!

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I've been going to quite a few UTS events over the semester break, hanging out with tons of people and meeting even more people!!!

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Last week, I participated in the UTS Tech Fest Game Jam! Teams had 2 days to create a game centred around the theme "greed"

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I was in a team of 5, with Dawn, Milo, Juno and Cassia

Juno worked on the art for the game, while everyone else worked on making the actual game.

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The game we made was called "The Greed Wizard"

It's a bullet hell game about rescuing a forest from the control of an evil (greedy) wizard.

https://ffernn.itch.io/the-greed-wizard

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We didn't get to quite finish the game in those two days, and unfortunately we weren't selected as one of the winners of the game jam.

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Earlier in May, I also went to visit the Fortinet headquarters in North Sydney as part of an event hosted by the UTS Cybersecurity Society.

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Hack Club

Hack Club is a non-profit organisation headquartered in the United States which aims to empower high school students in software development.

They regularly run events where students can work on whatever projects they want, and depending on the amount of work they put in they're able to claim free prizes

Hack Club

Their most recent event is called Stardance, in collaboration with NASA.

I've participated in other Hack Club events and even gotten small prizes from them, so when I heard about Stardance I decided I'd work on something for the event and see if I could get an even cooler prize

Hack Club

Enter in my latest project, Initiative.

Initiative is going to be a Dungeons and Dragons character building app made in Rust.

I'm making it because existing online character builders (dnd beyond) SUCK!!!! I HATE THEM!!!! dnd beyond is a terrible terrible website and i hate using it

Hack Club

So far, the project is still in a very early phase, and the only thing I've properly finished is dice rolling.

Hack Club

let dice1 = Dice::new(1, 12) // one 12-sided die
let dice2 = Dice::new(2, 8) // two 8-sided die

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let dice1 = Dice::new(1, 12) // one 12-sided die
let dice2 = Dice::new(2, 8) // two 8-sided die

dice1.to_string() // "1d12"
dice2.to_string() // "2d8"
// this is how dice rolls are represented in DND books

Hack Club

let dice1 = Dice::new(1, 12) // one 12-sided die
let dice2 = Dice::new(2, 8) // two 8-sided die

dice1.to_string() // "1d12"
dice2.to_string() // "2d8"

let dice3 = dice1 + dice2 // a 12-sided die and two 8-sided die
dice3.to_string() // "1d12 + 2d8"

Hack Club

One of the things you have to do as part of Stardance is post regular devlogs on your project.

Hack Club

Quick Bits

(and other stuff in general)

Quick Bits

obligatory food-bot statistics