Greetings from FACE !!!
The Forum for Aspiring Computer Engineers (FACE) is the Official Departmental Forum of the Computer Science Department at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. We along with our sister clubs (ACM Student Chapter, CSI Student Chapter, Codechef Student Chapter, ACM-W Student Chapter and FORGE) form the largest umbrella community at college.
If the above paragraph was too much for you to process, let me put it in a simpler way. FACE is a small group of undergraduate individuals who love to code and are passionate about teaching others to code. We conduct competitive events, host talks on computer science trends, conduct workshops (most of them are free), create coding tutorials and regularly clarify any doubts we receive with regards to our domain. This is essentially what FACE is.
We Believe in Collaboration
At FACE, each one of our executives are taught to work together as a team. We follow an internal pipeline method, a methodology by which each team mate does a part of the work and his/her task’s output is the input to the next person on the team.
Woah! That’s a complicated pipeline! Don’t worry. We are a lot simpler to understand.
Our events conducted are often conducted after multiple team sessions where each member pitches in their idea and the rest scrutinize it. Collective decisions that have no bias have been a characteristic of FACE. Whether you are a secretary or an executive member, every member’s word weighs the same.
We Believe in Knowledge Dissemination
The very idea FACE has always believed in over the years is to be a community that would work strongly towards bridging the gap between the school’s students and the world of coding. As a team, we try to keep ourselves updated with trending technology and adapt to the regular paradigm shifts we see within the computer science world.
The team’s progress is often documented by us and transformed into articles, tutorials or slides for a classroom session and in this way we spread on the knowledge we garner from multiple sources.
It is our belief that the more we share and teach others, the better we understand our concepts, a belief that has been really advantageous to all stakeholders involved.
We Believe in Writing Code
FACE is essentially a technical club and so we strive to strike a firm balance between conducting events to gather attention of beginners into coding and at the same time, we also ensure that we continue writing good code. The team develops websites for the school during large events and we also help out other clubs at the school in creating their websites. Academic project support for any student is also provided by the team (Well, we are not going to do your whole project!)
Most coding events which we conduct are first tested out by the team and the tutorials and workshops we design are built and structured with the code the team writes from scratch.
So, that’s like a slight gist of the main pillars on which FACE is built. But, the most important thing for FACE is the large student community associated with us. With over 200 students turning up for at least one of our events last semester (2018, Odd), FACE has been enjoying some real good recognition for the hardwork put in by the team. Well, we don’t believe in the numbers game, but nevertheless we are always excited on seeing a good turnout for events. In the 2018–19 tenure, so far, we have trained close to the same figure as portrayed above in the fields of UI/UX , Python and Web Development. Since visuals are way more appealing than text, here is a little plot that depicts our event turnouts.
With Stay Late and Code 2019, FACE’s flagship event and ASE-B’s 24 hour annual hackathon around the corner, stay tuned for many more articles that will guide you through technical topics and we shall also drop in a bit of motivation here and there to uplift your coding spirits :)
“Everyone should know how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think!”
— Steve Jobs
Happy Coding!
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