Open IT workshop got off to a great start on Day 1. We were really excited to get started again the following day. Here is a short summary of Day II of the workshop.
Small C application using Netbeans
Vasusen started the proceedings by interactively building a complex number utility application using Netbeans. The students made the application interactively. Again many features of IDE were explained in detail and were highly appreciated.
Next he demonstrated how easily Mobile Applications and desktop Applications can be made using Netbeans. An attendance Monitoring Application for Mobiles was also shown. We also desplayed many projects made by us in C. The projects included:
1. Orthello Game
2. Sudoku solver
3. PhoneBook.
Students were very excited and actually believed that C can be used to create many utility applications if used effectively. We also discussed the algorithms and logic for these applications. Mr Sumit Roy helped us all through the workshop - solving errors and difficulties of students. Thanks a lot Sumit!
T-Shirt for the best PhoneBook
We have announced a T-Shirt for the best phonebook appplication made by participants. They are supposed to submit their apps within 7 days. We will be doing rigorous testing of all entries and trying to break the code! Winner will be decided on factors like- logic, correctness , stability of code, commenting, formatting, clarity etc.
Lunch
We again had our lunch and this time, many students were more interested in discussing the ideas of C projects than eating .. .. The fact which pleased me a lot!
Big Buck Bunny!
After lunch no-one was in a mood to study right away. So we watched Big Buck Bunny - a cartoon movie completely made using Open Source tools! Movie lasted 10 min and students had a blast!
Why Opensolaris?
After the movie, I took a interactive session where I explained students as to why they should go for Open solaris. Many misconceptions were cleared during the talk. I accepted that Opensolaris currently might not have all features that windows has but it is on the rising path and so as a student we will be on the benefiting side. Also with the huge community support we have a lot to learn. Most of them were
convinced.
Then I explained in brief the cutting edge features of Opensolaris like - ZFS, Zones etc. (I saw that they were not grasping these high level concepts very well and quickly rounded off the thing!)
Concept of virtualization and Virtual Box
Then I went on to explain the concept of Virtualization and virtual box and how we can install an Operating system inside another OS using Sun Virtual Box. The explanation took a long time but finally all except 2 students understood the concept! Then we went on to install virtual Box interactively. We also made a virtual hard disk for Opensolaris. After that I went through a screencast which I had made to demonstrate installation of opensolaris.
Backing up of Windows and dual Boot
We had a short tea break and then Mr. Mohinish Vinnakota demonstrated how we can back up our hard disk using an FTP client and G4U. The live demonstration proved to be very useful and students liked it a lot. Then he explained how we can partition the hard disk and install opensolaris as dual boot with windows!
Homework!
The day was really absorbing. We also gave them a small task - to create a 3 - stage cypher (encryption) that would encrypt any file. The best and fastest code would get a Cap!
Thanks it for Day 2 folks! I will be back with Day 3 recap V V soon!
Absorbing enough it looks like at least one student was more focused on playing solitaire (see last photo).
Posted by Mr. E. on November 16, 2008 at 07:20 AM PST #
Well spotted Mr E! The last pic was taken at 5:30 in evening and I guess you can allow that at the end of the day! The day was really tedious and students are expected to get bored at the end!! ;-)
Posted by Jay Mahadeokar on November 16, 2008 at 09:30 AM PST #