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OTC CatchUp #25

Date: 01-05-2021

Duration: 11 hr 47 min

Topics Discussed

  • General introductions.

  • @Jay Kaku shared a GitHub repository for learning React.js step-by-step: Asabeneh/30-Days-Of-React

  • @Dheeraj Lalwani and @Himanshu Sharma talked about Internationalization (i18n).

  • @Chirag Nayyar told us about a live session on getting started with certifications in Cloud. (YouTube live stream)

  • @Himanshu Sharma and @sirus explained what Jetpack Compose is.

  • @Chirag Nayyar and Abhishek talked about Spark and Hadoop.

  • @Sreekaran Srinath and @Kartik Soneji tried to use the CoWIN API to build a Twitter bot and web app.

  • @ishandeveloper and others had a discussion on the purpose of studying Computer Science and on the ways to go about deciding one’s area of interest.

  • @Gargi Sathe asked @sirus about the target audience for his project. It spawned a good discussion on project building.

  • @sirus and @Kartik Soneji helped @Shreesh Srivastava with his React.js project.

  • @sirus and @Kartik Soneji were figuring out Google Drive integration in mobile apps. That helped @sirus answer his own question on StackOverflow. :joy:

Projects Showcased

  • @sirus released his Flutter app Heartry! It is an app for poets and writers to seamlessly write and share their work in plain text or as images! (Play Store, GitHub repo)

  • @Pranav Dani showed us his budget tracker project that he made using Flask, PostgreSQL and Chart.js. (Live demo, GitHub repo)

  • @Yash Khatwani showed us his Coin Hunter game the he made using the pygame package in Python. (GitHub repo)

  • @Yash Khatwani also showed us his web sites

  • @Dheeraj Lalwani showcased his URL shortener project made using Flask and MongoDB. (Live demo, GitHub repo)

  • @Dheeraj Lalwani also showcased his e-Commerce web app Equipstat which he built with @Chirag Lulla. They have used Django and TailwindCSS to build their web app. (GitHub repo)

  • @vedant jumle showed us his remote code execution project that he made in Python. (GitHub repo)

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