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10
Oct 08

Tech Tatva ‘08 Day - 2 and 3

TechTatva Day 2 and 3 were quite wonderful in itself. Our events under Param are very unique this time and maybe first of its type. Only one day is left for the fest which marks the concluding ceremony (there is no real closing ceremony)

Day 2 was relatively free since it only had Jour starting at 6PM night which is intended to be a 24 hour event. The submission time was 10th of Oct, 6PM which was later extended to 7PM. We recieved total of 8 submissions out of which maybe 5 would be called for final round where they have to give a presentation of their application developed. The organizers are currently busy with the shortlisting.

This day marked the most unique event in the history of Param - MobiVision finals. I only hear about Mobile Programming in IIT’s and other college which only focus on J2ME and no other platform. In our college we allowed all platforms. Android workshop was held before the second sessionals and I think no other college in our country might have had Android Programming workshop till now.

The results of MobiVision are out. Congratulations to the prize winners. Check out my flickr photostream for more pics relating to TechTatva

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9
Oct 08

TechTatva 08 - Day 1

First of all congrats to Mrinal Venkatesh and Ashwin P for winning the first prize of CodeBytes held yesterday. The second prize was taken by Anirudh Kumar and Animesh Raj. My hearty congratulations to both of them.

Summing up the whole first day, CodeBytes prelims started at 12:30PM and ended at 2PM. There were a total of 16 questions of total 67 marks. 13 teams were able to qualify for the lab round, the cut off for the first round was 20.

The lab round started at 4:30PM at CCF Lab3 and Lab4. A total of three questions were given which were to be solved in one and a half hours. The questions were dead simple. First one was to populate a square matrix inside out in anti-clockwise fashion. Second was to find out of the occurrences of each unique word in a paragraph with words being case sensitive. Third one was to analyze a code snippet and just replace the single and multi-line comments with space.

We extended the time limit by 20 mins to allow people to do any clean up operations on their code. When event ended, their code was collected and taken to a single computer. They were asked to come back by 7:30PM so that the code execution can be shown in front of them on a projector. The criteria for marking was that the code should execute fastest. For this we were using time command in POSIX systems. Check the previous post for more details.

Today’s event is Jour which is a software development event. Check out the question papers. The submission time is 6PM on 10th October. The shortlisted teams would have to give a presentation on Saturday in front of judges.

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7
Oct 08

Tech Tatva ‘08

I dont have any intentions to write down long long novel resembling stories. Tech Tatva ‘08, the annual tech fest of Manipal Institute of Technology is commencing tomorrow. This four day long fest will showcase the best technical event and talents in the college. This time some categories have taken an inititatve to organize the event in a revised way, just waiting to see the outcome.

Lets start with Param, the category in which am involved. There are four events under this category - CodeBytes, Puzzle Mania, MobiVision 1.0 and Jour.

CodeBytes is the classical coding championship which has the highest turnout amongst all the events under Param. It is to be held tomorrow, 8th Oct. This time this event has been changed quite a lot. The first round is the prelims which contains less than even 20 questions and more than an hour given to solve. Debugging and writing the output of code snippet has been given more importance. Only those who have good understanding of C/C++ are bound to clear this stage. The lab round is not that puzzle round as it used to be. The questions will be quite simple,  the efficiency of the program will be taken into consideration. We would give them simple questions, the marking is to be done on the total execution time of the program. The POSIX time command will be used to calculate the total execution time. People are required to code in Dev C++ with MinGW as compiler. This portable code will then be transferred to Linux systems, compiled using g++ and then using time command, tested for total time use.

Note: Turbo C++ is not allowed. We highly discourage this old and crappy compiler.

MobiVision is another event which is unique of its type, we focussed much on PyS60 and Android, though other mobile platforms are also welcome. We have recieved satisfactory number of abstracts. This event is on 10th October during the afternoon. The shortlisted students are asked to give a presentation of the app which they made, just a working protoype is required. Based on the ideas and implementation, the teams would be ranked.

The last event is Jour. If people can remember, last year it used to be called Night Out when some coding champs would loose their sleep for finding a solution to a puzzle. It’s all gone! Now you have more than 18 hours, make a fully working software application in the stipulated time. The final shortlisted students are required to give a presentation of the application they made to the judges and audiences. The questions will be put up on the site, keep a watch.

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26
Aug 08

Tech Tatva ‘08 PARAM

Tech Tatva ‘08 is back with a bang, the most awaited event of the year. Whether it be people who want to show off their skills in technical field or be people who want to enjoy half days, Tech Tatva caters the need for all.

As usual there are many categories in which events are being organized. One of them PARAM which contains events in Computer Category is being organized by Shubhendra. It contains 4 events most of them new or redefined to meet the needs of changing time. Here are some of the snapshots of the posters prepared for the event. Credits goes to Abhinit and Aavik.

I have been given the responsibility of organizing CodeBytes which is a classical coding championship. It will contain one screening and a Lab Coding round. Screening round will contain debugging questions in objective and subjective format. The Lab round will be more of code efficiency oriented with more stress on code efficiency and optimality rather than just solving the problems by hook or crook.

The NiteOut event has been replaced by Jour which means Day in French. In this event people will be asked to prepare a fully fledged application for realtime practical use rather than just solving puzzles. The 6 hour restriction has been relaxed to 18-20 hours. Take your time and give us something productive!

The last but most important event is MobiVision is a unique event in itself in the whole country. People are asked to present ideas to make our mobile more intelligent, useful and productive. We are even organizing a Pre-TechTatva workshop for teaching the participants about Mobile Programming. Two platforms are being picked up right now - PyS60 and Android.