Seasons Of Code

Front end development for FOSSEE websites    • Priyanka    • Prashant   

WnCC - Seasons of Code

Seasons of Code is a programme launched by WnCC along the lines of the Google Summer of Code. It provides one with an opprtunity to learn and participate in a variety of interesting projects under the mentorship of the very best in our institute.

List of Projects

Front end development for FOSSEE websites

Front end development for FOSSEE websites

[COMPLETED]

• Priyanka    • Prashant   
• Web Development

Mentees:
• Vidhan Arya

Contact the Mentor: Join the FOSSEE Slack team using the iitb.ac.in email address.


Openings:
2

Stipend:
INR 10000 per person

This internship involves front-end development for various FOSSEE websites.

Requirements

  1. Wireframe/layout a website or web application.
  2. Design and implement user-facing features considering rendering time and reusability of UI components.
  3. Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale. Support diverse clients from high powered desktop computers to small footprint mobile devices.
  4. Write client-side code for web-based applications, create fast, easy-to- use, high volume production applications, and develop prototypes quickly.
  5. Create and edit PNG and JPEG images and/or take a PSD and turn it into a working website.
  6. Write HTML and CSS from scratch.
  7. Add interactivity to a website with JavaScript (or jQuery)
  8. Knowledge of Django/Python/PHP is required.

Tasks

Improve three Django based websites

Week 0

  • Learnt the basics of Django
  • Learnt CSS for styling
  • Learnt JavaScript, jQuery

Week 1

  • Learnt Bootstrap
  • Setup development environment
  • Fetched multiple data sets for the website
  • Website was very slow to load as data was fetched using search methods( defining models for each category and book).
  • Fixed some minor errors like missing images, padding issues etc.

Week 2

  • Learnt git
  • Learnt Ajax for fetching data faster on the website (Vidhan: Although I didn’t learn ajax in week0, but I guess it would’ve taken much lesser time to fetch data dynamically if I did.)
  • Removed all previously defined models for searching in database, fetched all data with ajax( much faster, no lag issues.).

Week 3

  • Setup a textbox, to load example-code and execute it.
  • Currently fixing navbar errors - Chapters and Books don’t load in same panel.
  • Defined some jQuery functions to add div dynamically to rendered html.

Week 4

  • Loaded codes from example directory into textbox.
  • Minor navbar issues still there. Started working on 2nd task while side by side debugging navbar issues of 1st task.
  • Fetching results of loaded example by sending data to scilab app and then loading compiled code from app into result textbox.