How KWoC helped me get an experience of open source.

Jayanth PSY — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:08:57 +0000

About KWoC

Kharagpur Winter of Code is a 5-week long online program conducted by KOSS for students who are new to open source software development. The program not only helps students to get involved in open source, but also prepares them for many open source summer programs; Google Summer of Code being one of them.

My contributions

I was not able to contribute much during KWoC as I was working on some other side project.

Projects

I contributed to 4 different projects during this period.

grapheo12 / iqps

Web-app meant for qp.metakgp.org
shrinish123 / GuessMovie

GuessMovie is a movie Guessing game along with a search engine for your movies, TV shows, web series built using Node JS and Express Server.
adityabisoi / ds-algo-solutions

A collection of solutions for Hackerrank data structures and algorithm problems in Python
Surajbokde / web-development-Resource

Merged PRs

grapheo12/iqps

Instead of seperate dowload link, title as hyperlink #38

j-tesla posted on Dec 12, 2020

A modified iqps/static/assets/main.js, but I don't see any changes reflecting. Anyone please help.

If this works, should resolve #26

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I only made a small changes to the static files of the website to change the appearance of the search results such that the result titles are hyperlinks to the papers instead of displaying separate links.
shrinish123/GuessMovie
- Changes start and dev npm scripts #15
  
  j-tesla posted on Dec 16, 2020
  
  Changes nodemon to development dependency, changed start script to start with node and added dev script to start with nodemon
  
  fixes #14
  
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  Installed nodemon as a development dependency and added a npm script named dev to automatically restart the server each time the code is modified.
- Removes api key from the source code #18
  
  j-tesla posted on Dec 19, 2020
  
  fixes #16
  
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  Removed the apikey to omdapi used in the project from everywhere in the sourcecode and configured the apikey from environment with the help of dotenv library. Also, added documentation to generate and add apikey during deployment or development.
- Added status codes to server's error responses responses #24
  
  j-tesla posted on Jan 03, 2021
  
  Server now sends status codes to the browser in case of error
  
  resolves #20
  
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  Updated server behaviour such that it responds with appropriate HTTP response codes to the browser in case of errors.
adityabisoi/ds-algo-solutions
Luck balance py #450
j-tesla posted on Dec 16, 2020
Solved issue #246 In Language- python
- [x] Updated README Link
- [x] Added code with comments
Thanks for contributing!
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Added a solution in python to the one of the problems.
Surajbokde/web-development-Resource

Added resources for JavaScript #104

j-tesla posted on Dec 18, 2020

Added You-Dont-Know-JS book series

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Added the amazing You Don't Know JS Yet (book series) to the JS resources.

Languages

My contributions were mainly in Python and JavaScript.

Background

I am student of IIT Kharagpur. When I first heard about KWoC and open source last year, I was not really into it because I did not know what opensource is. Later, after getting the essence of opensource and getting to know how great it is, I started contributing to opensource on GitHub. So, naturally, I participated in Hacktoberfest and now in KWoC. I even aspire to participate in GSoC 2021 now.

Experience

KWoC is definitely a great experience mainly to students aspiring for GSoC and similar programs. The mentor-mentee interactions can be be very helpful sometimes. Although if you do not contribute much during the period, you will definitely get a considerable exposure.

DEV Community: Jayanth PSY

How KWoC helped me get an experience of open source.

About KWoC

My contributions

Projects

grapheo12 / iqps

Web-app meant for qp.metakgp.org

shrinish123 / GuessMovie

GuessMovie is a movie Guessing game along with a search engine for your movies, TV shows, web series built using Node JS and Express Server.

adityabisoi / ds-algo-solutions

A collection of solutions for Hackerrank data structures and algorithm problems in Python

Surajbokde / web-development-Resource

Merged PRs

Instead of seperate dowload link, title as hyperlink #38

Changes start and dev npm scripts #15

Removes api key from the source code #18

Added status codes to server's error responses responses #24

Luck balance py #450

Added resources for JavaScript #104

Languages

Background

Experience