07-31, 13:30–13:40 (UTC), Red Track
The students who belong to Generation Z or post-millennials have access to gadgets such as smartphones even before they go to school. This makes them technology savvy and at the same time, they get bored easily in a traditional classroom setting. It becomes necessary to use modern tools and techniques in the classroom to engage students in activities. In this BOF, I will demonstrate how we can use smartphone and visual programming tools to engage Generation Z students in the classroom.
The students who belong to Generation Z or post-millennials have access to gadgets such as smartphones even before they go to school. This makes them technology savvy and at the same time, they get bored easily in a traditional classroom setting. It becomes necessary to use modern tools and techniques in the classroom to engage students in activities. Also, governments are promoting “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)” concept in education which can be a boon to those who cannot afford a computer or laptop. In this BOF, I will demonstrate how Julia can be installed on a smartphone and execute Julia programs on the smartphone. Next, I will also introduce visual programming tools like flowgorithm which is a flowchart interpreter to generate Julia code (The Julia code generator for flowgorithm is available at https://github.com/gcdeshpande/Julia-Code-Generator). Then I will demonstrate how we can import Python packages in Julia for creative programming. Then the session will be open for the audience where they can share their thoughts on the topic.
Mr. Gajendra Deshpande holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering and working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi, Karnataka, India. He has a teaching experience of 12 years and Linux and Network Administration experience of one year. Under his mentorship teams have won Smart India Hackathon 2018 and Smart India Hackathon 2019. He is the Technical Director for Sestoauto Networks Pvt. Ltd. and Founder of Thingsvalley. His areas of Interest include Programming, Web Designing, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Brain-Computer Interface, Internet of Things and Virtual Reality. He has presented papers at NIT Goa, Scipy India 2017 IIT Bombay, JuliaCon 2018 London, Scipy India 2018 IIT Bombay, Scipy 2019 USA and PyCon France 2019.