Pybyte event

 Pybyte event                       

              -By ASET firefox club

Firefox club of Amity school of engineering technology has never left any stone un turned in providing the students with all the knowledge. This time on 16^th September 2016 , Firefox club came up with an indelible event which provided over 70 students with an in depth knowledge about python,linux and kivy. We here in firefox believe that learning from august people not only provide us with a competent knowledge but also provide us with experience to compete in this tech-savvy world very precariously ,keeping this thing in mind we invited the most well informed people to gratify the students with their knowledge. The learned people who joined us to brush up the knowledge of our students were –

1)  AKSHAY ARORA

Akshay arora has been working with linux,open source technologies off and on since the last 13+ years. He is one of the core developers at KIVY. He has also been a mentor for GSOC projects around kivy for the last three years , this being his fifth year. He is a very dynamic young man with a plentiful of knowledge in technological field. It was our pleasure to learn from him.

2)ANUVRAT PARASHAR

Anuvrat parashar was a sr.software developer at 1mg and is a great contributor to open source technology.

He is a python programmer,coder,FOSSEE enthusiast and evangelist. He is also a django professional and is a great backend developer. It was our great privilege to learn from such a learned person like him.

Various topic were covered during the interaction out of which the topics majorily covered are listed below-

1)  Introduction to linux

2)  Getting started with python 2.7

3)  A walkthrough with open source network

4)  Coding and development usingpython 2.7

The event was a big success. We received an application from over 200 students who desperately wanted to be a part of this event, out of which seventy chosen were called on to attend the workshop.

The programme was organised to provide the students to give them a brief knowledge about the programming languages and also provide them a hands on experience on the same. The event not only clarified the python related concepts of the students but also made them aware about the need to learn programming full flegedely to compete in this tech-savvy world.

Registration for the event-130

Students attended the event-80