FOSS MEC

FOSS Cell at MEC aims at bringing out new coding talents and open source enthusiasts to come forward and contribute to the world of Open Source and to bring back the FOSS culture at MEC. The club is inspired by FOSSMeet held at MEC 7 years ago in 2010 at MEC. Also it aims in promoting FOSS culture at the college level so as to make the students aware of the changing trends in science and technology and to equip students to cope up with highly demanding jobs. One of the main motives of FOSS MEC is to introduce and train people in the field of open source and make students ready to face the growing challenges in the software world.

This part is for people who are unfamiliar with LINUX commands, if you have basic knowledge of Linux and know how to get around the system, feel free to skip this part.

Web based projects can be anything to a website like Facebook, youtube, github. Or something like our college website, our attendance viewer are all web based projects but are not open source.

A scripting language is a programming language that employs a high-level construct to interpret and execute one command at a time. In general, scripting languages are easier to learn and faster to code in than more structured and compiled languages such as C and C++. It is always adviced to learn a scripting language because it has a large scope of use.

Although any programmer may find himself content to writing code at breakneck speeds using Python, Ruby and the more “modern” languages, his/her repertoire is never complete without the understanding and mastery of the C/C++ family of languages. When dealing with C/C++, you are very nearly at the bare-metal level; the operating system libraries and all the intricacies of the hardware lay open to you. Regardless of your area of interest, some familiarity with these languages will go a long way in improving you knowledge of computers as a whole.

Modern computers are becoming more and more intelligent as time passes. Most of this is/can be attributed to machine learning. The definition of machine learning is that it is “a method to achieve artificial intelligence (AI) that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.”

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable.

Google Code-in is a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to open source software development. Since 2010, over 3200 students from 99 countries have completed work in the contest.