Practical for Students of the ETH Zurich at the departement ITET

History

In 2004, Patrick Boenzli? and Benjamin Grauer started to create Orxonox. In the autumn semester of 2005, they decided to offer Orxonox as a PPS at the ETH. The goal was to teach the students about open source development and to deepen their knowledge of programming and modeling and, last but not least, to create a cool game.

Since that time a lot has changed: The two fathers of Orxonox finished their studies and so former students of the PPS took over and continued the PPS. Every semester, the growing group of developers meet and organize a new PPS. There they try to learn from earlier mistakes and to build on gained experience. Because in the end, all we want is our students being happy with their work and experience in our PPS.

Information

If you're a student at the ETH Zürich at the departement ITET and you're in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th semester, you can participate in our PPS. The Project is intended for students interested in game development or programming and modeling in general. Feel free to look around on our page to find something you're interested in.

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Timetable

Date	Room	Topic	Slides
1 mar	ETF C109	Introduction and Tools (wiki, forum and svn)	​Introduction, ​Blender
8 mar	ETZ E81	Framework and coding tutorial?	​Framework, ​Handout
15 mar	ETZ E81	Chose the projects, start planning
22 mar	ETL E11
29 mar	ETL E11
5 apr	-	Searching easter eggs
12 apr	ETL E11
19 apr	-	Sechseläuten
26 apr	ETL E11
3 may	ETL E11
10 may	ETL E11
17 may	ETL E11
24 may	ETL E11
31 may	ETL E11

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PPS Archive

Have a look at the past PPS semesters in the PPS Archive?.