Thankyou Mech ’98 batch Alumni
Leave a CommentWe are glad as well as grateful to announce that some more alumni came forward to offer their support to Codefest.
Following alumni have made thair generous donation towards this noble cause.
- Manu Agrawal (Mech 98) donated Rs 1000.
- Atul Kabra(Mech 98) donated Rs 1000
- Vikram Srivastava(Mech 98) donated Rs 1001
- Mayank Prakash (Mech 98) donated Rs 1000
- Ravi Kumar (Mech 98) donated Rs 1000
’84 batch alumni give Rs 20k for publicity
We have got Rs 20K for publicity from ’84 batch alumni who recently came to campus as part of alumni reunion. During their visit we had a talk with them about CodeFest and they had and have responded positively.
Thankyou all the alumni for supporting us. The publicity of Codefest is on full swing, posters of the events are being posted to colleges across the country.
Thankyou ITBHU adobe alumni
We are very thankful to our esteemed alumni at Adobe inc., who helped us taking GumboRumble to this level.
Adobe has confirmed to be the event sponsor of GumboRumble and prize money for the event will be over Rs 50,000. A special thanks to Namit Agrawal, Akshit Jain & Atul Agarwal for helping us in arranging it.
2nd workshop on Adobe flex
Following the success of first workshop, a second workshop was organised by IT-BHU ACM Students Chapter, IEEE BHU Students’ Chapter and V-Flex, Varanasi Adobe user group. Objective of this workshop was to guide the budding flex developer community of Varanasi.
Workshop was attended by 117 enthusiastic flex developers. Various problems faced by students in their initial exposure to flex were discussed, participants discussed the difficulties they faced while developing the mp3 player for GumboTube.
Codefest goes International !
We feel proud to inform you that Codefest, the online coding festival by Department of Computer Engineering has just gone international.
On 5th Jan registrations on the site started, results of which have been encouraging. With just 5 days of online publicity, there are 261 registrations 117 of which are outstation participants. Also there have been 7209 website views from 1021 absolutely unique visitors from across 118 cities in 26 countries.
Workshop on application development using Adobe Air 2.0
V-Flex: Varanasi Adobe Flex Users Group in association with IT-BHU ACM Student Chapter, IEEE BHU Students’ Branch and Adobe Inc. organized a workshop named Introduction to Application Development using Adobe AIR 2.0 on Januray 9, 2010 at G-8, Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. This workshop was the first in the series through which we aim to encourage the upcoming Flex/AIR Developers.
Workshop received an overwhelming response with 249 upcoming Flex Developers in attendance. Out of these 249 students 169 students were from the 1st year, 32 from the second, 31 from the 3rd year and 17 from the 4th year, and 8 Students were from outside of IT BHU. Workshop began with installation and configuration of Flex Builder by all the participants on their laptops. Later they were introduced to RIA and Adobe AIR 2.0 by speakers Neeraj Kumar, Rahul Verma and Mahant K Gowda. Topics covered by speakers were :
- Introduction to RIA development.
- Introduction to AIR 2.0 for development of general purpose and RIA based desktop application.
- Prepare a solid knowledge base for upcoming Advanced Level workshop by Adobe Flex Professionals in fourth week of January.
- Introduction to upcoming AIR based application development competitions.
Finally all participants at the workshop were guided to build their own flash media player by themselves. Click Here to view photographs of workshop.
Codefest team is thankful to all the participants of workshop for making it a great success. We hope this workshop will help the budding Flex developer community at Varanasi to grow.
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IFCS Code – SBIN0011445
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Mr. Rajeev Srivastava
Organizing Secretory, Codefest
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Engineering,
IT-BHU, Varanasi
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What’s been going on here at CodeFest ?
- Registrations on our website have started.
- Forums will start on our website from tomorrow.
- Work on Online judges to be used for the events is on full swing and would be ready by 15 Jan.
- A tutorial workshop for GumboRumble event is being organized on 9th Jan.
- Posters for event publicity will be sent across 300+ colleges across India by 10th Jan.
Codefest 2010
Department of Computer Engineering, IT-BHU shall be organizing its first ever completely Online Technical Festival in association with Adobe from 25th January to 21st March, 2010. We see this festival as an expansion of our aim to raise the level of technical activities amongst students, at a broader level. We believe this would not only help to improve the stature of our Department and the Institute but also encourage students to work on their technical skills from the very beginning.
The festival has been named as CodeFest and will be completely online with five different events testing students on Application Development, Algorithms, Programming & Logic and Mathematics. Visit http://www.itbhu.ac.in/codefest/ for more details.
The events are open for global participation and we are working hard to keep the level of the events upto international standards.
Computer Engineering Society & ACM IT-BHU Student Chapter are two groups in IT-BHU that have been constantly working from past few months to raise the level of Technical Activities in the field of Computing and Software Technologies.Several workshops, programming events and mock tests have been organized to inculcate the habit of showcasing the hidden talents and to develop a spirit of learning amongst students.
Many students of the Institute in the field of Computer Science have been phenomenal in achieving success on the National as well as the International level in the last year after the start of the two groups. Last year, 8 students from our institute were selected for Google Summer of Code 2009- Google’s flagship program to inculcate college students to contribute to open source- which consequently ranked ITBHU 9th worldwide in terms of selected students. Also, 2 students from ITBHU were ranked 34th and 60th nationally by Google Code Jam 2009- Google’s flagship online coding competition.
An event of this stature requires a sound financial infrastructure. We have estimated a minimum expenditure of INR 150,000 (approx USD 3250) – including prize money. With no financial support from the Department & no previous track record, we are positively hoping to get some financial assistance from all the IT-BHU Alumni out there. Any small contribution from you can certainly make a big difference!
Following is a brief description of the events:
- GumboRumble – The Flex Application Development Contest, with the co-ordination of Adobe
- Perplexed! – The Obscure Programming Contest
- Code Warrior – The hunt for complete Computer Geek
- Mathmania – An event based on Maths and Logic
