report interface 2018

Department of Computer Science

CHRIST (Deemed to be University)

Bangalore- 560029, India

[email protected]

REPORT

INTERFACE

2018

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Report of Interface 2018, Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

CONTENTS

MAGAZINE RELEASE ...................................................................................... 2

EVENTS ............................................................................................................... 3

ALGO-RHYTHM ............................................................................................. 3

ANDROID ............................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.

FACE PAINTING ............................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

SPOTLIGHT ........................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.

BEAT-IT .............................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

BLOG-IT .............................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

HACKATHON..................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

MINESWEEPER ................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

CODE ON ............................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.

RUBIK’S CUBE .................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

3301 TECH HUNT .............................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

ELEVATOR PITCH ........................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

STAR OF INTERFACE ...................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

DESIGNATHON ................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

WINNERS .......................................................................................................... 13

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MAGAZINE RELEASE

The 2018 edition of INFOBYTE, the annual magazine published by the Department of Computer

Science, was released on the occasion of the inauguration of the National Science Fest of the

Deanery of Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University). The magazine is the first of its kind in

a way that it brings together technical as well as non-technical content together after relevant

quality checks.

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EVENTS

ALGO-RHYTHM

Algo-rhythm was an event that required participants to come up with a solo dance performance

on the spot, without any prior preparation. The competition was split into three rounds. The first

round was a warm-up round where participants would come onto the stage and dance to random

songs which are played and switched instantly. This round got their nerves settled, and also made

them comfortable with the stage, lighting, music and the audience.

The second round was the one that judged them on their creativity. Participants were made to

pick up paper slips before the event that contained a word. They had to spell out the whole word

on stage by dancing. The main grading criteria for this round were the flow of the dance and

their inventiveness.

For the third round, the stage had been divided into four quadrants. They were hip-hop, classical,

folk and freestyle. One song was played for every participant. He/she had to come and dance

through all these different forms of dance. As the song moved on, the participant had to switch

quadrants and would be able to complete his performance only when he would dance in all the

quadrants on the stage.

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ANDROID

The Android event was headed by Skanda (5 BCA B) and Siddhanth (5 CME) in the MCA lab

from 1 PM to 5 PM on 27/8/2018. Dr Gobi R was in charge of the event and judged the final

round of the event.

At 12 in the afternoon on day 1, there was a meeting for the volunteers by the event heads where

they explained the event and explained the workload to the volunteers. Everyone regrouped at 1

for the start of the event. There were 4 registrations from other colleges and 3 from CHRIST

(Deemed to be University). Since there were fewer participants, the first quiz round was dropped

and the second round was conducted, which required the participants to choose from 1. Quiz app

2.E-commerce 3. Music player and create a rough replica of such an app. The participants

worked diligently till 3 PM after which they were given a break. During the break, marks were

consolidated for 1. Execution 2.UI 3. Code complexity.

The students returned after the break when they were given the question for round 2, "Develop

the UI for an app which can be used in disaster relief management," the participants immediately

got to work to create their projects. After an hour of work, the participants had completed their

work. Dr Gobi R judged the final designs and awarded marks.

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FACE PAINTING

The Face Painting Event was successful with more than 26 participants from different colleges.

Most of the participants had come with their own set of paints as told, and paints were provided

to participants from within the university. The theme for the event was nature and participants

were allowed to paint anything that had to do with nature. The event was very organised and was

held in the gazebo of birds’ park. Volunteers had been assigned to distribute materials and to

monitor the event while the painting was in progress. The participants were given a time period

of 45 minutes which was a comfortable time span as all of them finished within the time span.

The event was judged by Professor Smitha Vinod on the basis of a set criteria. On a whole, the

event was a success.

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SPOTLIGHT

Spotlight, a talent hunt under the National Science Fest was organised by CHRIST (Deemed to

be University) on 28th August at the Main Auditorium from 2 pm to 4 pm to encourage the

students and showcase their talents. Students from different colleges and different cities along

with students of CHRIST (Deemed to be University) participated in the talent hunt competition.

The MCs started the competition by asking a few questions to the audience and playing some

games with the audience. It made them interested in the event. Students exhibited their talent in

various domains. They sang Hindi songs, traditional folk songs, danced, and some students

showcased their talent in poetry, piano and guitar. The audience was also cheering up the

participants. The show was judged byMrLibin.

The main reason behind organizing thisevent is to nurture the intrinsic qualities of students and

remove the fear of stage among students, which helps in personality development. At the end of

the programme, the audience seemed cheered up. The judge went over the scores once again.It is

very important to organize co-curricular activities in colleges to groom student’s personalities. It

was a very interactive and fun competition.

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BEAT-IT

The event was about music production using a software, FL-Studio. The participants were given

1.5 hours to produce an audio track of their choice.

They had a time period of 1.5 hours. A total of 8 participants took part in the competition. There

were only 2 prizes, first and second. The event went smoothly as expected.

BLOG-IT

The venue for the event was 1 PME block 1. We were informed that there were 11 registrations

however only 9 turned up at the venue. The participants started turning up from around 12PM

and the event was open till 2PM on day 1. The participants were briefed about their task and

were dispersed. They began mailing me the articles they had prepared for the blog around the

start of Day 2 and they were uploaded on to the blog. The articles were also forwarded to the

judge. The scores were tallied on the morning of Day 3.

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HACKATHON

Hackathons, which are a quick route for idea generation, have been surging in popularity for

various reasons in recent years. A hackathon is characterized as an occasion where groups of

experts and advisors meet up to cooperatively construct and dispatch new thoughts. The Christ

Hackathon event aims to spur innovation through various creativity initiatives and sustain the

successful outcomes via careful management practices among students.

This being the second hackathon hosted by Christ, there has been immense progress from the

preceding year. Day 1 of the event began with a brief introduction, which continued to a 24-hour

brainstorming session which had a massive transfer of ideas. Participants were across various

colleges, namely PES University, St. Joseph’s, Surana, VIT Vellore, and Ramiah.

The teams used platforms such as HackerEarth to register and the GitHub repository to

constantly update their work. Telegram was used as a medium to communicate with the

participants, constantly helping them with procedures and queries.

The First judge for the day was Mr. Lavish Agarwal, currently working in HackerEarth as a

software engineer and is also an open source contributor. The Second Judge was Mr. Abhinav

Dubey, working as CSO at Breadware. He has had a rewarding career at AMD reaching the level

of member of technical staff within 6.5 years.

From ideation to execution, we see hackathons upending traditional business models and

rewiring the competitive landscape. The hackathon’s format, culture and its exciting possibilities

to help people adapt to the future are remarkable.

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MINESWEEPER

As per the culture of Christ (Deemed to be University), Department of Computer Science

organized Interface as part of the National Science Fest 2018 which involved many aspirants

participating in various technical and non-technical events. Minesweeper, one such technical

event gathered a good response and was organized at its best of quality. The event consisted of

two rounds, the first round being an eliminator round from which participants were selected who

would be eligible to participate in the second round. There was a total of 7 participants for the

first round, 6 from various colleges of Bengaluru and 1 from Christ itself.

The event involved debugging code snippets as part of the first round which was conducted on

the first day i.e. the 27th August,2018. There were, in total,12 questions uploaded on Moodle by

the various volunteers and the participants were given a username and password to access the

questions. Before the first round began, the participants were briefed about the rules and

instructions to be followed throughout the duration of the event. The participants then started

attempting the questions and started debugging the various code snippets. They gave in a lot of

effort and concentration to debug the codes. The first round concluded after a total duration of 1

hour and 15 minutes.

The volunteers took great care to make the event successful and ensured that the event was

conducted keeping the rules in mind. The second round was held on the 28th August ,2018

which involved participants to debug a web application. Before the second round started, the

event heads and volunteers ensured that various prerequisites such as sql server were available

on the systems. A total of 6 participants were selected from the previous round and were divided

into groups of two.

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CODE ON

The first round of the event was conducted in the MCA lab. The participants were from St.

Joseph's Autonomous College and CMS College. The first round was a hectic round of Tag

Coding, where the participants took turns in completing their team mates' code. Each team

member was given 15 minutes to analyze the question and write the code.

The next round was a surprise round of Blind Coding. The screens of the computers were

switched off and one participant from each time had to complete a simple code. The participants

thoroughly enjoyed the event and all in all, it was a successful event.

RUBIK’S CUBE

The event consisted of 18 participants from Christ University and 7 participants from other

colleges. Many participants registered on spot. We had taken Christites into consideration too as

the day before the event we had only one participant from outside. 3 participants from the other

colleges were concluded to be the winners of the event. The event was planned well much before

the day arrived but due to the last-minute confusion of the number of participants, the event

could not be conducted satisfactorily. The volunteers including the sub event heads were very

helpful.

3301 TECH HUNT

CHRIST (Deemed to be University) is celebrating the National Science Fest and Interface (fest

organised by the Computer Department) has been progressing well with all its events running

smoothly at various venues. The round 1 of 3301 Tech hunt was held on 27th

August, 2018 at

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11am in BSc Lab, 1st Floor, Block II. The round observed a lot of enthusiastic participants from

different colleges. The contestants were asked to participate in teams of three. 27 teams

registered for the first round. A general quiz which consisted of 45 questions was shared to the

teams through Google forms. They were given an hour to complete the task assigned to them. 10

teams were shortlisted on the basis of the scores they obtained and they qualified for the next

round.

Round 2 of 3301 Tech hunt was held on 29th

August, 2018 at 9am to 11:30am in the OOTE Lab,

3rd Floor, Block II. There were 10 participants selected for this round after an elimination round

which was held the previous day. Out of the 10 selected participants one team did not turn up

and another team left in between. The hunt comprised of 10 levels in a zip file. Each level was

protected by a password which was to be figured out using the clues in the previous stage. The

event ended on a happy note where the participants were glad they came because they’ve never

experienced an event of this kind.

ELEVATOR PITCH

On the 27th of August, 2018, the Deanery of Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be

University) commenced the National Science Fest, 2018 which comprised of a bundle of events

taking place around different parts of the campus.Elevator Pitch was one such event organized

by the computer science department students, headed by Navdeep Verma of 5 BCA and Jennifer

Jebaraj, 5 CMS, assisted by eleven volunteers from both CMS and BCA, with the teacher in-

charge being DrSenthilnathan T.

The event took place at the central block, 9th floor, room no. 911. It started at 1:40 pm with the

welcoming of the judges- Mr. Deepak Malhotra, Founder, SlicePay, Mr. Jonathan Croydon,

Communication Manager, Pinstove Ltd and Mr. VinuVargheese, CEO,Keinen Techne Solutions

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(P) Ltd. There were eight teams who registered for the event, coming from different colleges

across Bengaluru. The rules were introduced to the gathering and round 1 began with the eight

teams bringing forth their ideas followed by cross-questioning by the judges. After the end of the

first round, three teams were eliminated leaving behind five teams for the 2nd

round.

The 2nd round started after 10 minutes of break. The five teams again started pitching their ideas

followed by questions from both the judges and the audience. The event successfully wrapped up

at 5:25 pm with three winners who were given goodies and vouchers sponsored by the

SlicePayPvt Ltd.

STAR OF INTERFACE

The event started at 12:15 PM on the first day (27th

August) of the National Science Fest. Rules

and regulations were instructed to the participants by the volunteers in charge.

15 students participated in the first round that lasted for 15 minutes. The participants had to go

through a written MCQ test consisting of 40 aptitude questions. Top 10 participants were chosen

for Round 2. The selected participants were asked to make a 5-minute PowerPoint presentation

on the topic ‘Artificial Intelligence’.

The event took place in the KE Auditorium. 6 out of 10 participants showed up for Round 2. The

participants submitted their respective presentations. The presentations were then swapped

between the participants and they were asked to go on stage with their competitors’

presentations. They were marked on the basis of their confidence and delivery. All of them were

selected for round 3.

In round 3, participants were individually called on stage and they were each assigned an

imminent personality that they had to impersonate. Questions were asked based on their

character by the judge. They were marked on the basis of their confidence and delivery.

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The scores of rounds 2 and 3 were added and the 3 winners were chosen.

DESIGNATHON

The event consisted of only one round in which the participants had to design 6 Webpage

mockups of a Clothing website.The participants could use photoshop, Illustrator,sketch and other

such designing tools. All participants had to carry their own laptops with their required designing

tools installed. The event was conducted in the OOTE Lab in block 2 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM on

27th August 2018.

There were two teams that took part in the eventand they were from Surana College and

Presidency College.The participating teams were judged on the basis of their creativity skills,

aesthetics, typography and timely completion.The contestants had to keep in mind that the

website should be appealing to the user's eyes and it had to revolve around the given theme.

WINNERS The Overall trophy was bagged by St Joseph’s College, Bangalore.

Whereas,Surana College, Bangalore was the Runner-up.

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