BelleVoix and JeuxMobile

Thanks to all who attended the presentation on "BelleVoix" and "JeuxMobile" and helped us to make it a big success. Here are some details of the presentations:

BelleVoix - A talk on how you can control your s/w applications with your voice easily using javax.speech. The presentation was given by Siddharth Kandoi, Soumil Srivastava and Prakalp Srivastava. They beautifully explained the concept of speech engine, grammar, listener/recognizer class and various methods useful for getting and parsing token which are text version of the input voice. The demonstration was given using mozilla firefox as the underlying software. They demonstrated opening of various websites just by speaking out their names and how the whole browser menu can be controlled using only microphone and no mouse/keyboard clicks.

JeuxMobile - A talk on Mobile Gaming using JavaME. The presentation was given by Nirmesh Malviya and Ashwini Dekhane. They first explained the various important classes like Layer, LayerManager, Sprite, Midlet, Displayable, GameCanvas etc which are most crucial for any mobile game. Also presented how to develop a HelloMidlet from scratch and then explained how various features of their game "TableTennis" has been implemented with the help of javaME API. The presentation mainly revolved around the fact that "JavaME makes one's life easy when it comes to Mobile Gaming'

The Audience was a mixture of btech as well as mtech students. The feedback taken at the end of presentation was very positive. In total around 100+ students were present. We also distributed NetBeans, Solaris, Belenix and SunStudio CDs.

After this the audience moved to CC where the hand on session on mobile gaming was organized. They programmed on their own a mobile game - Virtual Carrom

Pics of the event are shared at http://www.flickr.com/photos/9480649@N04/sets/72157601556115479/

Appreciation for Aug and Sept month

No idea about "Monthly achievements award" but yeah, We have been highly appreciated by people at Sun Microsystems, B'lore for our work in the month of August and September. So I count this in category of monthly award only :) This counts to 4/9 awards in our basket - good figure indeed. Lots more to do for the club.

2nd Workshop on Java Programming

Friends,

So one more workshop completed successfully. Kudos to the whole team of Sun Club. I have shared the presentation material under JUG. Let me just put in short here what all we have covered in this workshop - OOP concepts, Class, Abstract Class, Interface, Inheritance, Method Overloading and Overriding, very basics of Thread.

Audience comprises of students varying from all disciplines and all years. CS101 was almost full.

Unfortunately due to some problems with the Camera, Vikas was not able to retrieve the pictures taken during the presentation. So no pictures this time :(

Next workshop on CFF Contest by Vikas/kshitiz

Prize Distribution Ceremony

Congratulations to all students who won Sun Certis. In total we distributed 15+ certificates and cash rewards of more than Rs 5000/-. We hope that more students will participate in the Club's activities and feel us proud by winning more certificates and cash rewards from Sun Microsystems Inc, Bangalore. Thanks once again to all those who came in the ceremony to appreciate the winners. We hope you all enjoyed the snacks served towards the end :)

All pics of the event are shared at http://www.flickr.com/photos/9480649@N04

Workshop on Introduction to Java Programming

Friends, So we have successfully completed the 2-days workshop on "Introduction to Java Programming". It was really a great response from the students and I wish that we will be able to maintain this in our coming workshops also. Just for a note I wish to state what all topics we have covered during these presentations. We covered (a) Concept of Computing Stack, Compilers, Linkers (b) Data Representation (c) Data Types in Java (d) Operators (I think we covered all the operators) (e) Expressions (f) Conditionals (g) Iterations (h) Recursion. Once again I will like to acknowledge Dr. Mainak Choudhury without whom this presentation would not have been possible.

So friends, lets prepare now for the workshop on Solaris.

I am sharing some pics of the event at http://www.flickr.com/photos/9480649@N04/sets/72157601950505049/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9480649@N04/

Further, the presentation slides are available at http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/sun/intro.php

August month achievements

Friends,

Let's pen down our initiatives during Aug '07.

1. Java User Group http://groups.google.com/group/jug_sunclub

Number of members: 215

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2. Presentation by Students

Six presentations by 11 students -
(a) Fractals
(b) Lan Chat
(c) Backup Systems
(d) OCR
(e) Image Analyser
(f) Mobile applications using J2Me

All projects developed at Sun Club, IITK

Presentation was given by : Siddhartha, Prakalp, Apurva, Manas,  Ramnik, Raunaq, Suneel, Sahil , Rakesh, Abhishek, Madhuresh

Attendance: 70+

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3. Sun Club's Lectures "Welcome to the world of Sun" and "Java is Everywhere"

- Conducted to introduce students to OpenSouce, Sun's theme of Collaboration, sharing and Openness.
- Introduction to Sun Club.
- Introduction to Java and overview of various Sun Technologies. (We played a wonderful video promoting Java)

Audience Type: B-Tech 1st year, 2nd year students, M-Tech 1st year, RA students.

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4) 100+ CDs/DVDs have been distributed to all participants

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Some of the pictures are shared at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9480649@N04/sets/72157601549023582/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9480649@N04/ 

June Month Award to Sun Club, IITK

Hey Guys,

Kudos to all of us. We won the June Month Award.