Questions Welcome!

• Why am I here?
• What is Google Code-In anyway?
• Will anyone ever do such thing?
• How will I get this done in my school?
• Too much of load for a student?
• Will students benefit out of it?
• What is take away from this session?

Google Code In

• Funded by Google for students ( 13 - 17 ) aged 
• Complete tasks for projects to earn T-Shirts, Certificates, Hooded sweatshirts and skills!
• 2 Grand prize winners from each organization get GRAND PRIZE to CALIFORNIA with parents
• 25 Organizations and loads of tasks

Google Code In

Architecture

Organization

Mentor

Student

Code
Documentation
Outreach/Research 
Quality Assurance
User Interface

Task?

Why this Training NOW ?

• Next Code-In, Maybe this August - Plenty of time!
• Participation of Kerala students very low!
• Students deprived of an opportunity
• INDIA need better Computer Engineers who know to code
• Would be a huge addition to school records

Is it already Happening ?

• Govindram Seksaria Science P.U. College, Belgaum -#2 among 397 schools worldwide with 49 completed tasks 

So 

why not 

Amrita?

What is happening in schools now ?

• Undirected student clubs
• Only arts and games? No!!
• Difficult to handle a club, without affecting the student academics

What we have in store for you :) 

What we have in store for you :)

1/3 Day

• Various techniques to get help from the internet 
• Etiquette and Netiquettes in internet communication 
• Basic of Web programming and building a good looking website
• Chat with Google Code-In Program Manager - Ms. Stephanie Taylor

Web-dev

16

Oct

What we have in store for you :)

2/3 Day

• Chat with Wikimedia Google Code in admin - Andre Klapper
• Getting familiar with the Linux terminal
• Understanding Git to make your life easy
• Hacking more on Git
• Blog for fun

Terminal

17

Oct

What we have in store for you :)

3/3 Day

• Hosting your own PHP code, reading and pushing to a code-base
• Open source contribution workflow clone, fork and push
• Games on effective Google-ing
• Getting your code merged with pull request

FOSS

18

Oct

After 15 October

• Get two or more students interested in Computer Science ( XI students preferred )
• Connect us with them ( via IRC ) or help them setup their machine to take part in GCI
• Give them a helping hand, and guide them till they fix their first bug!
• Send them back to us later for the second edition of GCI training :)

After 15 October - School clubs

• Fire-walled internet connection in Computer labs
• Interested students can stay back for 1 to 2 hour daily in lab
• Installing Ubuntu/Linux in Computer lab machines ( dual-boot safely )
• Weekly video conference with our FOSS club for mentoring

Thank You! 

Have a nice time