# London Computation Club

The London Computation Club is a meet-up for people interested in one or more of the following:

- Reading books (perhaps one we wouldn’t ordinarily read on our own)
- Learning about computation, programming and programs in general
- Writing code (perhaps of a different sort than we’d do for “work”)
- Hanging out with other inquisitive people

We organise the club via Slack so please join us there. Everyone is welcome to suggest a meeting topic, be it to learn about algorithms by playing with trains , showcase a side-project for solving complex problems or create an unbeatable noughts and crosses playing computer program together .

You can also follow us on Twitter , see code that we’ve produced on GitHub and write-ups of past meetings on our wiki .

## Future meetings

- Opt Art: Chapter 5 , 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Wednesday 30th August 2023
  - Write-up

Subscribe to future meetings in iCal format .

## Code of Conduct

It’s of primary importance that everyone who wants to participate feels safe and welcome. When participating in the London Computation Club, either online or offline, at the meeting itself or at the pub afterwards, we expect you to respect our code of conduct .

## Literature we’re reading

- “ Opt Art ”, Robert Bosch

## Literature we’ve read

- “ 10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) ”, Michael Fogus
- “ Elements of Computing Systems (Building a Modern Computer from First Principles) ”, Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken ( buy on Blackwell's )
- “ Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation ”, Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob and Greg Humphreys ( buy on Blackwell's )
- “ Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction ”, Andrew Barto and Richard S. Sutton

If you buy any books using the Blackwell's links, London Computation Club gets a little kickback via the Blackwell's affiliate programme. We use that kickback to buy copies of the books for our library, to assist members or potential members who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford the book.

## Contact us

- Slack
- Twitter
- GitHub
- Mailing list (mostly unused now)

## Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following companies for providing office space and copies of books for the club to read.

- Altmetric
- FutureLearn
- Geckoboard
- Go Free Range

## Past meetings

- Opt Art: Chapter 4 , 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Monday 10th July 2023
  - Write-up
- Opt Art: Chapter 3 , 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Tuesday 20th June 2023
  - Write-up
- Opt Art: Chapters 1 and 2 , 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Monday 5th June 2023
  - Write-up
- What Next? , 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Tuesday 9th May 2023
  - Write-up