New term , new plans , new heights to conquer

[Anil]

The main points that I plan to work on during my tenure ::

Bring more seniors to actively participate in club activities without compromising 

on freshie participation . Give to trust to coding for open source softwares .

Instilling a hacking culture in the institute

This would be done by having hackathons more frequently (at least 2 per 

semester). There would be brief session on how to get started with app development 

and good development principles like using git , etc .

Bug Squashing party 

People would join in to squash bugs in various open source software . This would 

go a long way in helping people get involved in such activities and also help in 

admission to programs like Google Summer of Code 

Coding Contests 

Timely notifications about various coding contests like from topcoder and codechef .

Arrangements made so people could join in at NSL to take part together . Also

Codechef charter would be setup so as to ease the process of hosting institute level

coding contests.

Workshops 

Workshops at medium and higher level would be made more development oriented . 

Rather than being taught about the language, a sample app would be developed 

during the course of workshop hence making it more enjoyable. 

Conferences

Conferences are a nice place to get to know more about software . Trip to PyCon 

(other conferences if many people interested) would be planned and members notified 

about the same . 

Wiki Articles
Articles on how to get started learning a new language / software would be added . 

Coder Network 

Compilation of skill set of people in the institute by maintaining a separate portal so 

that others interested in learning the same could get in touch with them.

If you have any suggestions feel free to let know . Will try my best at implementing the

same .

Regards,

Anil Shanbhag

WnCC Manager

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

Awesome Ideas :)
All the best!

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[parthe pandit]

All the best

looking forward to all the activities

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Parthe Pandit
Second Year Undergraduate
Electrical Engineering Department
IIT Bombay

[Saif Hasan]

Awesome ideas, our Coding Culture in Institute was lacking these things. Hopefully these new initiatives will lead to a great success 

Best luck to Anil 

Thanks

Saif Hasan | Junior Undergraduate | Computer Science & Engineering | IIT Bombay | DAMP Coordinator

[Chiraag Juvekar]

On the FOSS note I have this suggestion:

The WnCC 100 Bug Challenge

Try to squash 100 bugs over a span of a year across various open source software. Probably maintain a leader board and some sort of list of who squashed these 100 bugs and how.

Chiraag

You can't have everything in life, 

In particular, the list of all lists that do not contain themselves.

[Saket Choudhary]

^ Awesome !

That reminds me Launchpad has an API ! 

https://help.launchpad.net/API

Mash it up probably ?

[anirudh vemula]

awesome ideas!! 

[Jaison]

Suggestion:

Can you please start 'Puzzle of the week' series? THey were very interesting and useful for placements. You can have a look at the past emails for an idea of puzzles of the week series

[Mayank Singhal]

You can just start it yourself. Got an interesting question? Post it here.

Also, please note that for interview purposes puzzles are now discouraged in most companies for they are not considered a good judge of knowledge, skill and intellect. Also algorithm questions are not the same as puzzles. Do puzzles because you love doing them, not in hopes that it will be useful in placements.

Mayank Singhal

5th Year Dual Degree Student

Computer Science and Engineering

IIT Bombay

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[Saif Hasan]

We will try to post whenever we get some interesting ones :)

It will be best if everybody can post interesting puzzles they encounter :)