Talk - Startup & Life

Indian startups do receive a lot of negative and neutral comments from various MNCs. These comments not only affect hiring as well as other people perspective towards our business. Ranjeet Singh is a Software Engineer at C42 Engineering who work as a startup consultant. He with his other team members help startups to engineer their product. In his talk about Startup and Life he picked up most of the myths about startups and tell the truth behind whether they are true or not. Lastly, he talked about how to apply to startups, evaluate them and how do they evaluate you.

Workshop - Agile Software Development

Agile Software Development is a tuneable software development strategy for small business like startups. This workshop was designed to give a very introductory knowledge about,

  • Taiga.io Fundamentals
  • Manage projects agile way
  • Story based estimations in both time and cost
  • TDD/BDD (with RSpec)
  • Rails Fundamentals
  • Continuous Integration (with Travis CI)
  • Code Metrics (with Code Climate)
  • Deployments (on Heroku)
  • Controlling Project Velocity and Team Management

Students from 2nd year conducted an introductory level workshop teaching basics of Python. In this workshop student's were made familiar with basic fundamentals, concepts and applications of python and the following topics were discussed:

  • Introduction to python
  • Why is it so popular?
  • Difference between compiler and interpreter
  • Input,output statements
  • Flow of control(if else and loop)
  • Break,continue,pass statements
  • Functions
  • Python strings
  • Python lists
  • Python tuples
  • Python dictionary
  • Modules(math,random)
  • File handling

IEEE USICT Student Branch hosted an introductory workshop "WebSlinger (Introduction to Web Designing)", which was carried forward by IEEE student branch members. Objective of the workshop was to introduce students' to the subject and teach them building blocks of the same.

Following topics were discussed:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Web hosting
  • Bandwidth
  • FTP
  • Servers
  • Professional's approach to web desigining

IEEE USICT Student Branch organised an introductory workshop "Sensoduino (Introduction to Arduino)", conducted by IEEE student branch members. Objective of the workshop was to introduce students' to the subject and teach them building blocks of the same.

Sensoduino was a hand-on workshop where students were given an introdcution to Arduino board.
Difference between a microprocessor and microcontroller, sensors and actuators etc. were discussed.
Introduction to programming with Arduino IDE environment was held and students were asked to make and test basics programmes like blinking of LED, Controlling servo motors and triggering circuits using IR sensors.

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At the pre-college level, the IEEE works with industry, universities and government to raise student’s literacy in science, maths, engineering and technology. IEEE journals are consistently among the most named in electrical and electronics engineering, telecommunications and other technical fields. IEEE is a leading developer of international standards that underpin many of today’s telecommunications, information technology and power generation products and services. IEEE helps in discovering better career opportunities and gain a better understanding of the field.