Section: Dissemination

Popularization

• A. Charguéraud is a co-organizer of the Concours Castor informatique. The purpose of the Concours Castor in to introduce pupils (from CM1 to Terminale) to computer sciences. More than 700,000 teenagers played with the interactive exercises in November 2019. More information on: http://castor-informatique.fr/.

Articles and contents

• Jens Gustedt authored the book Modern C[24], which since the first publication of an online draft in 2016 has become one of the major references for the C programming language.

• Jens Gustedt is blogging about efficient programming, in particular about the C programming language. He also is an active member of the stackoverflow community, a technical Q&A site for programming and related subjects.

Education

• Cédric Bastoul participated in the training of high school teachers involved in the forthcoming optional Computer Science course for high school students. Specifically, he produced lectures and materials to teach Computer Architecture to high school students.

Interventions

• Vincent Loechner has been organizing a hub for the Google Hashcode programming contest (online qualification round) at Université de Strasbourg in Feb. 2019. More than 30 students and colleagues were hosted in the university classrooms to participate to this event.

• Cédric Bastoul delivered a presentation on program optimization at "Journée des licences" ("Bachelor Day") in June 2019.

Internal action

• Bérenger Bramas, Jens Gustedt and other members of the scientific computing group (axe transverse calcul scientifique) organized two software corners at the ICube laboratory. A software corner is a meeting where researchers exchange about programming best practices, existing and upcoming tools, and their own experiences.