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 I was thrilled to get an email for onboarding for Women Who Code Delhi's Mentorship Program 3.0 as a mentee. Having attended the orientation session, I knew that this program will help me to develop myself.   WEEK-1 My mentor Isha Gupta gave us a kind introduction. She listened to all her mentees expectations to know their current progress, future aspirations and expectations from the program.  I wanted to learn about the interview process and technical placement preparation. So she guided me on how to start practising sums on Data Structures and Algorithms on Leetcode. She told me how to solve problems and mindset to have while performing on coding platforms. Afterwards, I got started with Leetcode. Overall, my week 1 at mentee of this program helped me to get familiar with my Mentor. Along with that, I got insights about technical interview preparation strategies.  Looking forward to the rest of the program.

  I was intrigued by open-source development upon watching Linus Torvalds' Ted Talk, " The mind behind Linux ". Then, I start looking for opportunities to start contributing in open source and came across an amazing opportunity by  Kharagpur Open Source Society  at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. They organize  Kharagpur Winter of Code  annually in December to help beginners started with open-source development and prepare for other programs.      Getting Started:     This five-week program started on 6 December 2020. After shortlisting projects of my choice from the website, I went through their README.md file to get an idea about the codebase. Some projects did not have clear contributions guidelines for contributors. So, I talked to mentors and upon their approval made contributing.md files suitable for their projects.            Contributing:    I made two pull requests in SnippetShar...

If you wish to enrol for any workshop or you have already enrolled, here are some guidelines which will help you to prepare for attending workshops at IIT Bombay's annual technical festival.  I went to the Android Application Development Workshop by Google at 2020 Techfest. So here are my observations. 1) The workshop was delivered by experienced Googlers. The experts were helpful and very knowledgable. They personally helped students who got errors in their code. They even stayed after the workshop got over to help enthusiastic students with their code. Flutter was taught very well by Ms Nikita Gandhi and Mr Deven Joshi. 2) The list of content and software were mailed to participants before 10 days. However, most of the participants didn't download them and hence it took a lot of time to start the workshop. 3) Internet at IIT Bombay was very slow (due to heavy traffic )for people to download things from.  So download basic requirements before going. And, take extra internet s...