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From my experience in technology- Part 1

Don't limit yourself by your boundaries, limit yourself by the strength to break those boundaries Passion for computer science wasn’t so trivial for me. Until my 10th grade, I loved biology and then my interest grew in mathematics but computers were never my cup of tea. I still remember in my 10th grade, my friend got a smartphone and she was flaunting it. I asked her whats new in it, she along with many other features told me its Android. I have heard the term but never understand it, so, out of curiosity I asked her though she herself didn’t know. One other incident was when I first time actually opened my laptop in June 2015 and believe me when I say that at that time I didn’t even understand what rar files were. I took computer science as a part of the herd and till my 1st year, I was a studious girl studying to score marks and listening to seniors to take part in some activities.  My life took turn when I did a course in hacking in my summer vacations of 2015 and got ex

Accenture IWD's celebration

Giveup? No!! Its too maintstream :P Accenture out of the blue (as far as I know) decided to have an IWD (International Women Day) celebration in my college on 6th April, 2017 and I received a mail that interested students can tell their achievements for felictation ceremony, so did I. Since the achiever's were to be selected by TnP (Training and Placement cell) of our college, I keep it that way. As always, we were given the threat to be not able to sit in further placements if we don't attend. And funny part it we were discussing what will be their message this time :P Anyways, I wanted to attend the event as finally something was happening in college and yeah I had hope of winning that award due to some of my achievements, specially this . We were given the time of 9 a.m. to reach and I knew that event won't start, so I reach at about 9:45 A.M. on that fine morning. That's what me and my friends do to our classes too :P But to my surprise, although event wasn&

Smart India Hackathon

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Giveup? No!! Its too maintstream :P So a bit about Smart India Hackathon for those who already don't know. It is considered to be the World's biggest Hackathon which comes under Prime Minister's Digital India movement. It was organized by @mygov and @IndiaKaIdea in association with AICTE, NASSCOM, NIC & MHRD to innovate new ideas and use technology to bring about the changes that the country needs. 29 ministers participated in this and came up with 698 problem statements they actually face. Around 1200 teams who got selected out of 7531 teams of 6 students each coded for 36 hours at 33 different places across the country. Now back to my story, I haven't met much passionate girls in my college and when my friends told me about Smart India Hackathon, I didn't know how I will participate but anyhow, I made a random team with all beginners with thought of, that at maximum, I won't get selected but at least would have tried.  I worked hard to motivate and

Introduction to Git and Github

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Why Git? When you have to do a project like a college project with your friends what do you do? I had used Google Drive, DropBox etc. Most probably you must also have use the similar methods. But don't you think these methods are very cumbersome in terms of collaboration or you can say 'A perfect reciepe of disaster' as shown.     What is Git? Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed for speed and efficiency open-source: its source code is availabe free of cost distributed version control: allows many software developers to work on a given project without requiring them to share a common network. efficiency: on git since everything is local, working in git is highly efficient. Some of the basic terms used while working with git are: Repository: A basic folder or a collection of files that represents one project. The name of this repository is Git-Guide. When you clone, you clone an entire r

Install Ruby on Rails

This method worked for me(Ubuntu Gnome 14.04) 1. sudo apt-get update If there are errors you would most probably not be able to run 5th command, you can follow note below here or after the command as you want. 2. gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3; Even if this command doesn't work don't worry because it didn't works for me too but I got ruby on rails installed then too. :P If above command doesn't work then try this command:     curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash - 3.  /bin/bash --login 4. curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable; 5. source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm; 6. rvm requirements; If here problem comes then refer to note below and run the command from starting after following the note. 7. rvm install 2.1.2; 8. ruby -v So to get little excited you can run this command that you have at least ruby installed on your system 9. rvm use 2.1.2 --default; 10. rvm rubygems

Install Java and Android Studio on Linux

Install Java: Java comes in two variants for Linux OpenJDK and Oracle Java. OpenJDK is default one and works fine for many applications but not all applications. Hence, oracle Java is recomended for use. Here's how to install Oracle-Java(version-8) on linux through terminal: 1. Add ppa for Java sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java 2. Update Linux sudo apt-get update 3. Install Oracle java sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer 4. Set Oracle Java as default export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default 5.  Configure other related settings sudo update-alternatives --config java Install Android Studio: 1. Add ppa for Android Studio sudo apt-add-repository ppa:maarten-fonville/android-studio 2. Update Linux sudo apt-get update 3. Install Android studio sudo apt-get install android-studio 4. Install sdk and setup pathin settings to start creating android projects.

Xampp Installation on Linux

Installation:   1. Open link and download appropriate Xampp version for you. 2. Open your terminal (Press Ctrl + Alt + T) and change directory to the folder when you have downloaded Xampp. Below commands are for specific version, replace with your version number (xampp-linux-x64-7.0.6-0-installer.run file name) 3. Reset the permissions of Xampp installer and make it executable. Run the following command. If you are prompted for password enter it. sudo chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-7.0.6-0-installer.run 4. Run the installer by running the following command. sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-7.0.6-0-installer.run 5. A GUI window will open. Press enter till finish (or customize it in your own way) Security Command: Run the following command to set the password and other security confidentials if you want: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security Working with Xampp:   You put all your projects in /opt/lampp/htdocs in your linux to access them via server 1. Install gksu by running following