Prateek Shetty(2010): How my final year project landed me in Job

Hi all,

           It gives me immense pleasure to share my experience with all you juniors.  Here is a small article on how my final year project helped me get a job! Ravindra Sir had asked me to write this long back, but due to my busy schedule I couldn’t. I believe it’s better late than never, so this is how it goes…

           Once you enter your final year the search for the project group starts. And after the group is formed, starts the hunt for the project topic. Can say it as the most vital part of the project.  Some think of the marks they are going to score if they take up a particular project and some think of the things they can learn while doing the project. This reminds me of what my friend Rohan Nayak used to say, “It doesn’t matter how much you score in your project, what matters is how much you learn out of it”. And remember, if all you want is to get some marks there are easy ways out. But we chose the hard way and under the guidance of Ravindra Sir and mentorship of Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni from Minglebox, we started our project ‘Social Network Aggregator’.

            To say in brief about the project, we wanted to do something that has real world application, a product. We can call it as a WEB 3.0 application that aggregates data from different social networks. We aggregated data from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, through which one can upload his status simultaneously on all three networks. It’s been done using the API’s provided by these networking sites, protocol called OAuth for user authentication, and PHP. They say that getting a job off campus is nut cracking experience. But in reality, if you are good there are always people ready to hire you. I will be always thankful to Ravindra Sir for offering me an opportunity, and I made the best out of it. I proudly tell that I had got offers from two companies!! Out of which I chose InfoBridge Solutions, Pune. I was hired as a PHP developer.  Learning experience and exposure a fresher gets in a small company or a startup can never be compared with that of the IT giants!!

            That’s all I got to say fellas, all the best for your project and future. Thank you Ravindra Sir, for giving me this opportunity.

Regards,

Prateek Shetty

Jr Software Developer,

InfoBridge Solutions, Pune.

Email: prtek.shetty@gmail.com

Himanshu explains the importance of Internship and how to find one

Few steps to get internships during summer vacations. Drafted from my own experience.

1.) If you want to work in months of June to august, start looking in last December-January itself.

2.) The IT sector is so huge, so decide a domain in which you would like to work and learn some related

technologies.

e.g. Web-Design/Development - Php, Java, Javascript, Ajax etc

App-development for iphone, blackberry, etc - Java, Objective C etc

Enterprise Solutions - VB, VB.Net, DBMSs

3.) Now search on the internet about the companies which suit your domain. Get the contact info

of their HR department.

4.) Send them a mail writing that why would you like to work for them. Your interest, and what period

of time you would be available, preferred location etc. Attach your RESUME.

5.) Do this for all companies which suit your domain.

6.) If you have any relatives/contacts working in such companies, feel fere to ask them to refer you.

Dont hesitate. At the maximum, they will say a NO to you.

7.) Register yourself on the websites specifically for internships. Currently I know 2 of them.

http://www.hellointern.com/

http://www.twenty19.com/

There may be many more.

8.) Even if you dont get an internship, dont worry. At least join some courses related to your domain.

Or get involoved in some personal project of your own.

9.) If you wish to pursue post-graduate courses, this is the best time for joining any full time institute for

GATE/GRE/CAT etc. Many institutes run vacation specific courses.

10.) At last, to include, only 1 point, 3 months is huge amount of time. Dont waste it sitting ideally at home.



Himanshu Sarawagi

Preeti Hedge VII Sem - Internship at Total Computer Software

Preeti Hedge, current VII semester is undergoing internship at Total computer softwares, Bangalore. Her intership includes technical writing stuffs, lik srs and documentations and now m learning .net simultaneously. Good to know this

I am Cloud 9 : Jeevan Dongre, Jr. Software Developer, Inkorus, Pune

I am Cloud 9 : Jeevan Dongre, Jr. Software Developer, Inkorus, Pune


I am very keen on sharing my final year project experience with my you all because I do understand the difficulty in choosing the right topics and even I was once in a dilemma like you guys not aware what kind of topics to be chosen for. The final year projects are not just gonna add to your academic brilliance but most of the times decide your career. So the topics for the project must be chosen very very carefully.


I am tech savvy and I had a great appetite for learning and staying updated about the latest and upcoming technologies.Before I decide any thing regarding my final year, I had two objectives that has to be fulfilled by project.Firstly it should be helpful to a group of people or a community like Education, Healthcare etc.Secondly it should possess a strong business objective, so that I should be in a position to promote it has product. Since the word “cloud computing” was in the buzz, I felt this could be one such interesting topic which i could take for my career deciding project. So I and my team approached ‘ happy-to-help-anytime’ Dastikop Sir, who gave us a clarity of the subject.

“CLOUD BASED TEACHING SYSTEM”(CBTS) was my final year project. The objective of this project is to bring the traditional class room teaching system a new dimension. Utilizing the resources which are already available in web, we are able develop a new product which can be managed effortlessly.By cloud-based teaching-learning system we mean a method of teaching where web is the point of contact between teacher and learner. This system may be used independently or in conjunction with class room teaching.

CBTS harnesses variety of cloud resources to design, develop and deploy teaching courses and delivers them over the web. By end-to-end we CBTS covers all aspects of teaching process such as Course registration, content delivery, monitoring of students progress, assignments, tests and final certification culminating with warding grades to registered students. The CBTS will be accessible to teacher and students at a web-interface and acts as a dashboard.

Suprizingly “Cloud Based Teaching Sytem” is not just our final year project, it is going to be a research activity soon as “Cloud Learning Environment”. People across the world(US/UK/Canada) are showing keen interest.Thanks to Social Networking sites.

I would suggest you to go for upcoming technologies since the industry prefers such projects rather than the conventional age old concepts. Lot many developers and Engineers are already working on traditional systems, to make different identity in the industry, its very important to up with a OUT OF BOX thinking and start working on cutting edge technologies.Finally its your interest all which matters.Prioritize your interests and strengths and do thorough searching before you choose the topic.

Vijay Sali: How my project won me the job

Hello,

Its my immense pleasure to share my experience about “ How my project helped me to get my first job”.... Firstly my heartily thanks to Prof.Ravindra Dastikopa, for giving me an opportunity to share my views & experience in getting my first job...

During 7th semester myself with my team were thinking to do something which is new , innovative, and helpful to society , this was our main objectives.... As we approached Professor he suggested his idea's which will be helpful for the education system i.e “CLOUDBASED TEACHING SYSTEM”.

Here started our journey to think in the direction of "CLOUDBASED TEACHING SYSTEM”.... With this in mind we started searching more information with respect to this and during this session lots of brainstorming sessions happened on requirement collection, constraints, and choosing domains (Like java, python and .net)..... Finally we where al set & started our work in this .....

We understood the entire system environment and stepped into executing the plans what we had.. We took java as platform to develop a system. In between we faced lots of errors and constraints , that we fixed it .. And finally done with the project successfully ....Here , I would like to mention one more person Mr. Earlence Fernandes from PUNE , who helped & guided us during the time of project development....

In the entire process i have really learn' t lot many things which polished me to transfer myself from normal student to become a Professional and i'm very happy & satisfied with the work i have done so far ...... A Knowledge gained from our project really helped us to get a job which i'm in now.... Project really made us to enter into the Corporate world that too soon after my engineering without much delay ......

Finally coming to the job, offcourse the most important thing ....

I have applied to the job where I can apply my skills and get more knowledge about the industry.. They called for face to face interview.. I was confident in my work & on myself ...... Interview went nearly 6 Hrs .. It was pure technical session, in that they had asked on some basic concepts of Computer Science field , java and offcourse abt GAE (Google App Engine , i.e , based on my project ) .. And after 2 days of my interview I got my OFFER LETTER to my mail joining was on 5th July .... All this happened and stil our 8th sem results were not announced yet & i had an OFFER LETTER for my FIRST JOB in my hand....

If i just turn back & see, feels like all this happened like a miracle even though there were lots of ups & downs until the completion of my project ..... Finally my project helped me to get near to my destiny.....

by VijayKumar Sali, Jr. Software Developer ,Inkorus Solutions,Pune, India