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 ?

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

Tinkering Workshop- Google Code-In

By Aniketh Gireesh

Tinkering Workshop- Google Code-In

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