Protocol Newsletter 2019

The Protocol Club of the Computer Science Department of BMSCE

has conducted several events and workshops during the years 2017
and 2018. The success of these events and workshops and the
positive feedback received from the students and faculty has
increased the reputation of the club and also raised the bar for its
future endeavours. Here is a brief overview of the events and
workshops and also some other interesting articles.

Events and Workshops during 2017

Spotfix Latex Resume GameDevelopment
Workshop Worshop

On the 1st of May, Protocol Conducted by Dr. Umadevi Conducted by Kaustubh,

members took to the streets V, Associate Prof., Dept. of 3rd year CSE, this
workshop of Bengaluru to make it CSE on the 24th of May, this worked the
participants cleaner and more beautiful. taught students to through the
process of
The Vidyapeetha Circle was create their own resume game design using GIMP
cleaned and the walls were using the online editor, and Unreal Engine. It
was painted, making the area ShareLaTex. Vaidurya M, conducted on 7th
Sept and more attractive. Purbid Bambroo and Ayush 15th Nov.
Samrakshini RS,
Chetan M and Myna P were Pant were the Student Sarthak Goyal, Aditi
Awasthi the Student Coordinators for Coordinators. and Ayush Pant
were the
this social cause. Student Coordinators.

Reverse Coding Digital Image Linux Workshop

Competition Processing

Coordinated by Ashwin Conducted by Namratha M, This workshop series was a

Bhatkal, Saket Marodia , Asst. Prof., Dept. of CSE, hands-on experience
Tanya Sethi and Myna P, students were introduced to teaching students about
the this was a hands-on contest various concepts such as Linux Operating System.
It targeted mainly at students Vectors and Matrices, I/O was conducted from 9th
to looking to grasp basic processing with images, and 14th Nov by Mrs.
Namratha concepts of coding using so on using MATLAB. It was. M, Mrs. Saritha A
N, Mrs. reverse engineering. It was coordinated by Manav Shyamala G, all
Asst. Prof., conducted on the 16th of Mehra and Chetan M and Dept. of CSE,
Karthik R and October. held on 24th Oct and 8th Kiran R,
both 4th year
Nov. students, CSE. - Rushikesh
Purbid ,Eleanor and
Neeharika coordinated the
workshop.

Phaseshift 2017 Events

Department of Computer Science and Engineering organized a plethora of
events and workshops in Phase shift 2017, which was held on the 15th and 16th
of Sept.

SnS TechVita Technical Writing Code-A-Thon

A technical quiz designed to
in test the knowledge of
solve students in the fields of
and Senses and Sensors.
ciphers.
Testing the technical and Participants would code
analytical skills of an C, C++ or Java to
individual by handing over a grueling puzzles
hypothetical project. crack puzzling

SnS Hack-A-Thon Tech Hunt 2.0

Participating teams had to debug as many
intentionally added bugs in a git repository
to as possible. A few Raspberry Pi boards
provided were also available to test the programs.
keys were
On decrypting an encrypted key, a
sequence or a task needed to be coded
get an appropriate result on the
Arduino board, The encrypted
provided at each location.

The Workshops include :

IoT and its Applications using Arduino,

Android Sensor : Workshop on Networking and

 Android Senses : Workshop on Multimedia

Events and Workshops during 2018

Docker and Containerization Linux from Scratch Workshop
Conducted on the 16th and 17th of Jan This workshop series covered all the
basics by Purbid Bambroo, students were of the Linux OS. Students were
taught to introduced to Dockers and Containers. add and delete modules from
the kernel, They were also given an insight on working to build a bootloader and also
to build a
with Dockers by script commands using the basic kernel.This was held from the 20th
of terminal. Pulling of some existing images like Jan to the 10th of March by Aditya
Kamat SQL and WordPress were also taught. and Kaushik Iyer and was
coordinated by Along with Purbid, Ayush Pant and Aditi Purbid Bambroo and
Rushikesh Kulkarni. Awasthi coordinated the workshop.

Linux and Networking Workshop

This hands-on workshop made students familiar with the Ubuntu interface and the command
line prompt and helped grasp the basic concepts of Linux and Networking. Information about
various kernels and the advantages of using a virtual machine over a dual boot system was also
provided in this session. Oracle Virtual Machine for Ubuntu was used to make the workshop
interactive. Held on the 9th of November, this workshop was conducted by Saifur Rehman.

Server-less Computing Workshop

Conducted on the 17th of November by Aditi Awasthi, the participants were taught the
advantages and disadvantages of this form of computing. The reasons for switching into
server-less computing were explained, along with information on various server-less
frameworks currently available in the market. A hands-on experience was provided by using
Apache OpenWhisk to write server-less functions. The workshop gained positive feedback from
all the participants.
 Articles
Nutanix Interview Experience
Here is Samrakshini R S sharing her experience when she appeared for an interview for
Nutanix. The first round of the interview was conducted on HackerRank. With a time duration
of an hour, two questions were to be solved, the first about merging intervals and the second
was a snake and ladder problem. Only 14 members advanced to the next round.

The second round was the debugging round in which a c++ code which merged different
lines from files into a single file was given. The candidates were supposed to debug the
code and explain the errors. Samrakshini pointed out 6 errors which earned her a place
among the 9 candidates who advanced to the next round,

Round 3 was an F2F Technical Interview round in which the candidates were given three
different scenarios which they would solve by using various concepts learnt during their
Computer Science course. Pleased with Samrakshini's answers to all the questions, she
advanced to the final round along with 5 other candidates.

The final round of the interview was also a Technical Interview in which an unsorted array of
numbers and a search element are given. An algorithm was needed to be implemented which
gave the number of swaps required for the search to give the correct location. Candidates
were given 30 minutes to solve the question. Samrakshini was able to solve it in 20 minutes.

Overall, Samrakshini describes the interview to be a truly rewarding experience.

Bored with Rubik’s cubes? Check out these fascinating types of cubes!
Solving the same Rubik’s cube again and again has no fun! There are In fact 45 different
known varieties available that can make your cube time more interesting. A few of them
being :

 Pancake cube: The name is mouth watering,but the cube is mind twisting. It
consists about 27 layers of pieces arranged one above the other.

 Geared Hex cube: This cube has its own ‘twist’ . It’s hexagonal in shape and is
crossly arranged with similar pieces.
 Spinning Dials cube: In this cube Spinning dials are added to each side of the
cube.These dials can further be shuffled. Hence, This makes its difficulty level almost
out of this world.

 Krystian’s cube: It is a new type of twisty puzzle cube. Its turn is enabled when a
2*2*2 piece is turned by 45 degrees.

 Youcube: As the name goes, the cube is U in shape, Hence Its more of 2 cuboids
joined by a small cube at the bottom. It costs about $268 to buy this cube.

 Mirror cube: This is a very famous cube. It is a Rubik’s cube with pieces of
different sizes but same color. Its solution is almost same as the Rubik’s cube
solution.

 Axis cube: Unlike Rubik’s cube, this cube doesn’t have regular square cuts to
twist the puzzle. It has cross axes which makes the pieces triangular in shape,
which are mostly isosceles.
  Ghost cube: It is a combination of mirror cube and axis cube. It has many
more pieces in an irregular fashion than the axis cube.

 Pyramid cube: Again as the name says ,It is in the shape of a pyramid. This
also has triangular pieces but all of them are equilateral unlike the axis cube

Hope you enjoyed this article. Comment in the box below if you found this
article interesting and need explanation on more types of cubes .

Until then Happy solving ! 

Why Do Indian Women Wear Jewellery?

Jewelry! It is the most exciting thing for Indian women. Indian marriages are filled with
mesmerizing jewelry and clothing. But have you ever wondered why do they wear so many
jewels?

Wearing toe rings is not just the significance of married women but there is science behind it. In
case of toe rings worn in second toe, a particular nerve, passing through the toe connects the
uterus and passes to heart, which strenghts the uterus.It will keep it healthy by regulating the
blood flow to it and menstrual cycle will be regularized.
Silver is a good conductor, it also absorbs polar energies from the earth and passes it to the body,
that’s the reason why most of the ornaments worn in lower part of body, such as aklets, toe rings
are of silver.

Wearing bangles is always fun! Normally the wrist portion is in constant activation on any human.
Also the pulse beat in this portion is mostly checked for all sorts of ailments.The bangles used by
women are normally in the wrist part of one’s hand and its constant friction increases the blood
circulation level plus the energy produced by the body is reverted back because of the ring
shaped bangles, which has no ends to pass energy.

According to scientific principle, gold reacts well with the body's energy and aura. Therefore,
gold is used to adorn the upper parts of the body.
Mangalsutra, the chain that every married Indian women wears.The gold wire of the Mangalsutra
destroys the distressing vibrations present in the Universe through its Energy of the Absolute Fire
element and the black color of the beads is said to absorb all negative vibrations before they can
reach the bride.
Wearing earrings has an acupuncture-effect on the body, according to which applying pressure to
the centre of ear lobe that contains point of vision, sharpens eye sight. Ear piercing was taken as
a remedy and had various health benefits such as :

 Maintains the reproductive organs and helps to keep up a healthy menstrual cycle.
 Ear lobes contain the meridian points of left brain and the right brain. When these points
are pierced, it activates the respective parts.
 The ear lobes are good spots to apply pressure that relieves tinnitus.
 Prevents anxiety and nervousness.
 Helps to keep one’s digestive system in order.

The 3 great shortcuts which can change your browsing experience

Keyboard shortcuts, as the name suggests, is a combination of keys that causes a specific
command to be executed in a time-efficient manner. The utilization of these keys results in an
efficient, accurate and faster computer operation. Even though all keyboard shortcuts make our
lives easier, a few of them are almost indispensable for a smooth browsing experience.

First and foremost in this list would be the magical CTRL+F. How often does it happen that we
waste so much of our time going through loads of data while we are looking for something in
particular? That’s where this shortcut comes to the rescue, just press CTRL+F and type the
keyword in the search bar that pops up. The word gets highlighted and thus time saved!

Can’t read small texts on the quirky websites while laying back? Use CTRL++ to zoom in and
CTRL+ - to zoom out and sit back and read the contents easily!

It becomes a ragbag when we’re surfing through a lot of tabs and click on links after links thus
making it easy to lose the page of your interest. Simply bookmark the page using CTRL+D and
store it in your currently active bookmarks folder or any location you want.
 Exemplary Students
Sumukha Nadig

Being the current lead for Google Developer Student Club, Sumukha has many feathers
to his cap. This exemplary student is the current President of the CodeIO club, the team
lead for
development of placement portal as well as the developer for Institutional elective and
course registration portals. He was also the Community Service Director in the Rotaract
club of BMSCE and is currently the Vice President of the club. Campus ambassador for
Dell Inc. and HackerEarth, Sumukha has also interned at Pagish and is a member of
Crew for TEDx BMSCE..

Passionate about education tech and socio-technical projects, Sumukha aspires to

become a
Data Scientist in the near future.

Siddharth Pai
Siddharth is a third-year Computer Science student. Apart from being an all-round exemplary
student, he is a Placement Co-ordinator and also the Student ambassador for GE Appliances. He
is an active participant in many of the events held on and outside campus, and was one of the
organisers of Phase Shift. Passionate about technology, he regularly attends workshops and
conferences on Computer Science. It is also noteworthy that he has taken the Microsoft Certified
Course on Security Fundamentals. Unlike most people, he is also interested in mathematics, and
participates in events held by Pentagram, of which he has won one held in 2017.
All younger students should aspire to inculcate at least some of his qualities and attitude
towards learning.
We wish him the best for all his future endeavors.

Protocol Newsletter 2019