One Day Workshop on Python Scripting Held on 20th January, 2013

Department of ECE in association with IETE student forum of ECE organized a one day workshop on “Python Scripting” on 20 th January, 2013 at Sir C.V. Raman Seminar Hall, KL University. Around 220 attended the workshop which included students as well as faculty members from various departments in KL University

Objectives

This workshop is organized to create an awareness of the Open Source Technologies,available tools for working in open source domain. Provides a scope for developers, where they can contribute to the open source community.

Schedule&Topics

The topics covered during the workshop are as follows

1. An alternative paradigm in computing- A Free Software Perspective


2. Introduction to GNU/Linux


3. Python Scripting with Hands-on Session

Resource Persons:

Resources for the delivering of contents are provided by “Swecha”. Swecha is a not-for-profit organization in Andhra Pradesh that has evolved as an organization of researchers from industry, academia and users of computers who respect computing in freedom. The community is networked through user groups and chapters with a reach in all the 23 districts of the state and functional user groups amongst students and academicians in 250 engineering colleges.

1. Mr. Ashish Avadhanula, SAP Consultant, TCS, Hyderabad. Executive Member, Swecha


2. Mr Sunil Mohan Adapa, Freelancer, Independent Software Consultant. Working Group,FSFI

Session 1 : An Alternative paradigm of computing- A Free Software Perspective

Mr Ashish Handled this session explaining the freedoms of free software, comparing with what we are losing by usage of proprietary softwares. He also shown some surprising facts of the losses incurred by usage of proprietary softwares. Free software alternatives for the tools we used today are shown and also explained how one can contribute to the development of technology. At the end of the session a motivational video is played showing how change happens.

Session 2 : Python Scripting

Mr Sunil Mohan started of with introducing the interface of GNU/Linux Operating System.There on he moved onto python scripting language, a simpler programming language which can be written is very few lines of code compared to other programming languages around. He showed some examples explaining how powerful is the programming language and it is user understandable simple code. Students showed immense interest in working on Python and they practiced the same on their laptops throughout the session.

Feedbacks from participants:

• Workshop is very useful for us. We are able to learn only the basics as workshop is restricted to one day. It will be good if it would have been two days.

- Student, III/IV EEE

• The workshop was good in the way of organizing it and way of teaching also . But the information about python was not upto the mark because of the lack of time.

- Student, III/IV EEE

• The workshop is very good and helped us in improving the programming skills. By this workshop we an get good creative ideas for inventing and modifying softwares. I feel to encourage a number of workshops extending this topic and there is a good scope of innovating thinking in the software and technology.

- Student, II/IV ECE

• Workshop helped a lot to know about Linux and Python programming. By this workshop we came to know a language that is easier and powerful than C Programming. We expect a lot more workshops like this which helps us in recent trends.

- Student, III/IV ECE

• It is excellent. If some more time is extended it will be so good. And also if two days workshop is conducted it will be useful to all

-Faculty, ECM