Overview

Attendance

The problem with this editor is that it is old and not widely used
However, that does not necessarily make it a bad choice if someone needs a text editor

One should never use this IDE! We had a previous meeting dedicated to discussing the drawbacks to using this IDE

This option is an actual IDE that contains debugging and performance checking tools
Has built-in C# and Nuget support
Recommended in Assembly and Cobol courses at PennWest California
However, this IDE does contain a significant learning curve

These are both lightweight code editors
While they are technically not IDEs, they are fully customizable with a high plugin availability
These are popular editors with plenty of support and documentation
Similarly to Visual Studio, these editors contain a learning curve. However, it is not as significant
NeoVim is slightly faster than Vim

Lightweight text editor
Similarly to VSCode, this is not technically an IDE
Unlike VSCode, this does not have support for most plugins
However, it has macro capabilities and autocomplete (naive complete without LSP)

Overall, one should pick an IDE that is modern and widely used.

There was a new security vulnerability discovered in the xz library used in some Linux distributions. This article goes into more detail.
Generally, it is a good idea to pick a favorite topic and go in depth with it. Having this attribute makes someone more hirable as it gives them the ability to talk about something they are passionate about.
On Thursday April 18th, we are planning on holding a meeting at our regular time in which we will try to convince the CS faculty at PennWest California to start using version control technology.
We are considering holding an event at Natali on Friday, April 19th in which we will hang out and study for finals week. We will start planning it in more detail next week.
Nominations are open for officers. All positions are open for the next two weeks. A Discord channel will be opened for this purpose.
Christian nominated Paul for President, Matthew nominated himself for Treasurer, and Lavender and Abu nominated themselves for Secretary.
A goal for next year is to recruit Freshman students. We should work towards helping them with any problems they are facing in lower-level classes.
Discussed ways to navigate group dynamics in programming classes. Before a single line of code is written, make a plan! Think of all functions in advance and determine what they do and what parameters they take in. That way, functions can be distributed amongst group members and they will not have to worry about whether or not the other ones actually exist yet.