A meeting will be held in the e-Gurucool lab on Monday, during the fourth period to discuss the participants for each event at Codewars 2004, which is being held on the 15^th and 16^th of December.

Good day.

Something very disturbing has come to my notice recently. Juniors are disallowed fro Egurucool premises in break.Why?

What possible positive end can be achieved by this, I’d like to know. To have all those resources and then banning people from using them is just about as productive as America’s general elections.

I can understand that they want the senior classes not to be disturbed. Fine, ban people from the stairs that lead up to the classes and down to the labs. Why ban them from the WRC?

Look at prohibition, the Nazi party or whatever you like, banning NEVER helps.

This has even worse repercussions for Exun. If the juniors are not going to meet in break, then when will they meet? The amount of info and skill that was exchanged during break was enormous, and now all that productive potential is going to go to waste.

Something must be done.

Please leave any ideas as to what that something is, in the comments.

— Nisheeth

Hi folks

Thanks to Mr. Mukesh Kumar for inviting me into ln(exun). I’m an employee with Microsoft India – currently responsible for programs related to the Academic Developer Community. I have mostly been in touch with Engineering & MCA colleges but schools cannot be far behind.

Imagine Cup – is a worldwide contest for student developers. This time there are total 12 different contest categories for 2005 edition. Do have a look at http://imagine.thespoke.net for info. Just few things i want to point out here:

a) There is a Software Design category – which will be run as an India round where we select the national winner – who travels to Yokohama for world finals. Details about that in a later posting. All other categories are being run centrally from US right up to the world finals.

b) There are 3 “high-school” categories and 9 “open” categories. So school students can participate in all 12 while a college/masters/Phd student can only participate in 9.

c) Check out details of each category – there are some which have a “country quota” for round 2, so there are more chances of qualifying.

You can reach me at ashwanis@microsoft.com for more on our programmes. I shall be happy to do a session around .NET at your school – if that is something you people whould like to have.

ashwani

After Banning Cell phones, its the turn of the internet getting disconnected from the school premesis. It seems that No Student shall be allowed to use the internet at school. Whatever may be the reason behind this it doesnt really matter. The main thing is that our school, pioneers in integrating computers in a student’s life, is taking a 180 degree turn. Its trying to cut off technology from the school and actually now on the path of regressing. Just a fortnight back, we were asking Sir that when are we going to get a leased line. Now exun batch 2005-06 will ask when do we get any internet in school?

Everything in this planet has a positive side and a negative side… same lies for the internet. It depends on the individual on how he wants to use it. This doesnt mean that it should be all ‘banned’. Solutions have been found out, laws have been made and effort is being put in to counter the negative effects. If the school is feeling that the internet is having too many bad effects, has it tried controlling the bad effects first before banning it? Technology itself has the answer for fixing some of the the negative effects it produces.

Agreed that all negative points cant be eliminated, but are those negative effects so big that they completely shadow the positive effects ? I dont need to go through the list of positives of the WWW. Giving freedom brings in responsibility to 95% of the students but are the remaining 5% so big that the rest of the 95% have to suffer too ? Agreed, Something has to be done about those 5% but banning is not the answer. It sends a wrong message to everyone. finally what I feel, constant guidance to the erring is the answer. If a function in C++ is not working properly, we debug it not delete the function altogether.

-Maanick

P.S. : These are totally my views. If anyone thinks that i am correct or totally or partially incorrect(which I certainly might be!), comment away!

ln(exun) didn’t look too good without any blogs for the day…. 🙂

-=-=-

ankit

–w–

Code Wars on 15th and 16th Dec 2004.Details come later. Meanwhile goto www.code-warriors.co.nr for details.

People who are in Classes X and XII CANT take part in events which are on the 16th of Dec. Sad Luck

Maanick

Since CODE 2004 is on 20, 21 December 2004, Class XII student may be unable to participate due to Pre-Pre-Board Test Series.

Senior Programming

Teams: 1

PPT (Participants per team): 2

Turbo C++; Logical, Algorithmic in nature.

Junior Programming

Teams: 1

PPT: 2

C++ and BASIC

Senior Quiz

Teams: 1

PPT: 2

Junior Quiz

Teams: 1

PPT: 2

Open Event: Crossword

Teams: 1

PPT: 2

Open Event: Software Display

Teams: 1

PPT: 2

Pentium 4 1.7 GHz/128/VB Runtime/Windows 98/Windows XP/Windows 2000

Open Event: Gaming

Teams: 2

PPT: 1

Open Event: The Code Quest

Teams: 1

PPT: 2

* Programming and quizzing skills are required

* Written prelims

* Logical puzzles, deciphering encrypted codes and cryptic questions.

Open Event: AI Wars

Teams: 1

PPT: 2

… will be required to develop Artificial Intelligence for playing a game against other AI programs. The rules for the game will be given in detail on Day One. All coding has to be done on-the-spot on Day Two. Turbo C++ will be given. File Handling knowledge is required.

Open Event: Surprise Event

Teams: 1

PPT: 2

Junior: Class X and below

Senior: Class XII and below

Open: Any class

This essentially says that Open == Senior.

Timings are:

Day One – 8.00am to 4.00pm

Day Two – 8.15am – 5.00pm

Clashes (and you can derive which event is on which day)

Day One:

Gaming Prelims & Surprise Event are concurrent events

Junior Programming and Senior Programming are concurrent events

Senior Quiz Prelims, Crossword Prelims and Junior Quiz Prelims are not concurrent with each other but are concurrent with both Programming events

Software Display is concurrent with all events

Code Quest Prelims is not concurrent with all events except Software Display

Day Two:

Junior Quiz Finals and Code Quest Finals are concurrent events

Senior Quiz Finals and Gaming Finals are concurrent events

Crossword Finals and AI Wars are concurrent events

Lunch and Prize Distribution are not concurrent with any event

The above concurrency guidelines are essentially to save me from scanning the schedule or copying it to the computer in a very tedious manner, for which I do not have time. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Their website is: http://code04.tripod.com/ or ahttp://www.apjnd.org/code.html, but as of now, there is no information about CODE 2004 on it.

CODE can be contacted at the following addresses:

code04@rediffmail.com

Madhavi Saxena (HOD)

madhavi910@hotmail.com

Divya Jain (Coordinator)

divyap2602@yahoo.com

Karan Sikka

karan_sikka1@rediffmail.com

Harpreet Singh

happysingh88@rediffmail.com

Kshitij Bansal

kshitijcode@rediffmail.com

–Karan

Added a glow to the X in EXUN.

The logo has very minute defects but roughly — will this kind of design work?

The 5 Star Treat promised fo the winners of Access 2004 has been cancelled due unavoidable reasons. Infact we have no treat in our hands. Seems the only treat we might have in the exun 2004 farewell treat

Its sad that only exun gets left out on treats. We win the most but we never get recognized. The Music Guys won Bergins and they got to blow thousands and thousands at Pizza hut and Nirulas.. Me and Karan,as Presidents, tried to change the image of exun for the better but our efforts havent seemed to work… Hopefully the Future Presidents and Coordinators will be successful

Maanick