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Apoorva Kumar in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Nov 14, 2017

An informal introduction to KWoC

Great People of tomorrow, every perfume starts with one ingredient but it is the last one that makes it come to life.

Hi! and Welcome! To all esteemed student who are trying to pursue their dreams irrespective of their departments and previous…

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Ayush Goyal in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Mar 2, 2017

Breaking GitHub Down

During my mid semester exams, one night I was getting bored so I decided to check how to break the most used code hosting website GitHub. I wrote a script[1] to add infinite commits to a repository named “Commiter”[2]. It added a dot at the end of a text file after every commit. The script…

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Sayan Sinha in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Feb 22, 2017

Kharagpur Winter of Code

Website : https://kwoc.kossiitkgp.in

The world of open-source had enchanted me right after I had installed Linux in middle school. I was amazed to see all my daily needs of a computer being satisfied by free and open source software. But, I was just a mere…

Taapas Agrawal in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Jun 21, 2018

Git Cheatsheet

What is Git?

From Git’s official website:

Yash Sharma in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Aug 29, 2018

Installing Python in Windows

This article deals with installing Python on Windows. Even though Python can be installed in Windows, it is…

Himanshu Mishra in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Jan 25, 2017

Kharagpur Winter of Code 2016 Statistics

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Himanshu Mishra in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Jan 24, 2017

SSH to a remote server from KGP network

We love to use servers and we all know lots of work can be done efficiently that way. With Digital Ocean and Microsoft Azure giving out free credits to the students we all want to switch one or the other task to the server. However, the main problem with the…

Pranit Bauva in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Mar 14, 2017

Writing Kickass READMEs

Writing documentation for code is extremely important. Alas! I realized this late. Nevertheless, you should not make this mistake again.

This is written with respect to software related READMEs, if you want guidelines for other stuff, then probably this isn’t…

Yash Sharma in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Oct 5, 2018

Using Git Bash for git in Windows

This blog post helps in installing git bash, for using git in windows. Git for Windows provides a…

Himanshu Mishra in Kharagpur Open Source Society

Jan 24, 2017

Quick guide to git and github (Part 1)

Before we start, make sure you have an account on GitHub. Go to https://github.com. Pick a username, enter your email id and choose a password. Next, choose unlimited personal repositories for free. In the final step you can give some input to github and voila …

These were the top 10 stories published by Kharagpur Open Source Society; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2016, 2017, and 2018.

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