I have been mentoring the students at the first year programming club of KCG College of Technology for about 3 months now. These students are in their first semester at the college. We started by learning basic Python programming, built simple games using PyGameZero and also worked on building desktop applications using PySimpleGUI. We used […]
Category Archives: Event Descriptions
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Dec
Dec
After going through the wave of lockdown, the team was super excited with the rebirth of build2learn. We had the most curious set of audiences. Most of them are new to build2learn.
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Dec
Dec
Build2Learn is a community-led by volunteers from Chennai. After running monthly events for a year, we took a break most of 2019. Not just us but a bunch of community members missed our events. With the new normal of 2020, we thought of bringing the community back to life and had our first event on […]
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Dec
Dec
What is MLH Local Hack Day? MLH’s Local Hack Day, a global hackathon is a celebration of learning, building, and sharing! It is open to everyone.This was MLH’s 5th year organizing Local Hack Day. MLH Local Hack Day in Chennai was organised in association with Build2Learn is the brainchild of Dorai Thodla. It is an initiative by […]
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Jul
Jul
Last quarter, we held orientation programs for women’s coding club at KCG college of technology and Hindustan University. This semester KCG wanted to start off with a build2learn session for their Women’s coding club.. We had 57 registrations from different departments which made me super excited because that is the crowd that we get for […]
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Jul
Jul
The event took place on the 30th of June. It was one of the most vibrant meetups. A few things I noticed about the event: Over 60 registered and 30+ showed up (typical Chennai event pattern) More newcomers than regulars (registration stats indicate 62% newcomers) We asked the audience to introduce themselves. Several indicated interest […]
Here is the first draft version of how Build2Learn Works. We wrote it up a couple of months ago. Feel free to add your comments and questions. What is Build to Learn? Build to Learn is an initiative to help students and beginners learn by building small usable product prototypes. It is mostly about software but […]