Learning to make a Temperature Converting API using Express.js

One of the first few tasks of the internship I recently got, was to develop a simple RESTful API which converted a given temperature from Farhenheit to Celsius and vice versa. The choice of technology was left up to me. Having worked with Node and Express.js before, I decided it would be convenient for me to work on the API using these. It would be easier developing an understanding over the API structure and its nuances, without having to worry about learning the syntax of a new language.

Organizing OSDHack'22

OSDHack is an annual hackathon, organized by the Open Source Developers Community of JIIT Noida, Sector-62. Previously organized at the intra-college level, this year we decided to scale it up and host a nation-wide open hackathon. We saw registrations of 450+ participants and a whopping total of 100+ teams, which turned out to be way more than we had expected! Everything, right from planning till execution was handled by the students of the community and it wasn’t a piece of cake.

Documenting my OSDCodeJam’21 experience

!!! Images broken !!! It’s New Year’s Day. We are idling away since it’s our semester break, when around 3 a.m. in the morning, seniors from our college’s Open Source Developers Community (OSDC) made a big announcement. They had come up with a new and unique kind of event for us. OSDC was organizing its first Code Jam, OSDCodeJam’21. OSDCodeJam OSDCodeJam is a fun, collaborative (intra-college, but just for this year) competition organized by our seniors from the Open Source Developers Community at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology.

KWoC'21 Project Mentee Experience

Kharagpur Winter of Code (KWoC) is an initiative by IIT Kharagpur’s Open Source Society (KOSS) for students with little to no experience (such as myself) in open source software development. It aims to introduce students to the working of one of the most popular version control systems - Git. KWoC helps flatten the learning curve and allows students to prepare further for prestigious open source programs like Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Outreachy, Season of KDE, GNOME Internship program and others.