The TechTrendz Club of the Department of Computer Science successfully organized CODEFEST, an event celebrating the National Coding Week from 16th to 28th September 2024. The event was organized in Classrooms S-201, S-207 and Lab 1 from 12.45 pm onwards. The objective of CODEFEST was to promote collaboration, knowledge and skills sharing among students in various programming languages namely C, Python and Java.
The event was designed in such a way that students from First Year, Second Year and Third Year were given an opportunity to pair up in teams preferably across the BCA and BVoc.(ST) programmes. This collaboration promoted teamwork while improving students’ skills in programming and debugging through three key events:
Codebug, Pycode and Java Jolt focusing on C, Python and Java programming languages respectively. Each of the events was well curated to explore debugging and analyzing skills of students along with time management skills. Codefest received an overwhelming response from 71 participants (40 male, 31 female).
The Student Coordinator, Faculty coordinators and Winners are as follows:
- Event Name: Codebug
Student Coordinator: Sumaira Mustafa Mulla from SY BCA, Div B
Faculty Coordinator: Ms. Rakshavi Dessai & Ms. Sweta P. Shet Verenkar
- 1st Place– Shrawya Shetty (TY BCA, Div B) and Daneshwari Jingade (FY BVoc.(ST))
- 1st Place– Aarti Solanki (SY BVoc.(ST)) and Malcolm Fernandes (FY BCA, Div A)
- 2nd Place– Shaina Kamat (SY BVoc.(ST)) and Blesson Halgi (FY BCA , Div A)
- 3rd Place– Khushal Naik (SY BVoc.(ST)) and Simran Ghadi (FY BVoc.(ST))
- 3rd Place-Vishwajeet Singh Shekhawat (FY BCA, Div A) and Aishwarya Nayak (FY BCA, Div B)
- Event Name: Pycode
Student Coordinator: Thayaba Banu from SY BCA, Div B & Radhika Gautam from SY BCA, Div A
Faculty In-charge: Ms. Rama Borkar & Ms. Sneha Prabhudessai
- 1st Place: Mayuresh Chari (FY BCA, Div A) and Alanso Fernandes (FY BVoc.(ST))
- 2nd Place: Styron Fernandes (FY BCA, Div B) and Riyano Fernandes (SY BCA, Div A)
- Event Name: Java Jolt
Student Coordinator: Anirudh Singh Solanki from SY BCA, Div B
Faculty In-charge: Ms. Shruti Kunkolienkar & Ms. Annette Santimano
- 1st Place:Jesval Fernandes (TY BCA, Div A) and Premanand alias Dhruv Naik (SY BCA, Div A)
- 2nd Place: Showil Rebello (SY BVoc.(ST)) and Yogesh Yadav (SY BVoc.(ST))
- 3rd Place: Aldrid Fernandes (TY BCA, Div B) and Vighnesh Raikar (TY BCA, Div B)
The flyer and brochure of the event was designed by Yogesh Yadav from SY BVoc.(ST). The overall faculty in-charge for CODEFEST was Asst. Prof. Annette Santimano, in-charge of TechTrendz Club. The overall faculty co-ordinators for the event were Asst. Prof. Sweta P. Shet Verenkar and Asst. Prof. Girija Gaonkar. The event received positive feedback from students who demonstrated great enthusiasm in participating.
Expected Outcome of the Activity:
Students from classes across BCA and BVoc.(ST) paired up to form teams which will increase sharing of knowledge and skills across numerous programming languages and result in identifying students possessing skills in teamwork and programming and analyzing skills with an increased level of confidence.
