The Computer Science Club held its most recent talk in a steady stream of open computer science events this past Wednesday night. The club has seen great success with some of its more recent events, including “Bash Basics” and “Google Hangoutreach.” Wednesday night’s “Wheelhouse Tech Talk” focused primarily on the following question: What does it mean to be a modern software developer? Speaker Nikolai Chowdhury founded the the company “Wheelhouse”, a platform designed to provide guided and advanced training for software engineers in order to make them “more successful and well balanced.” Originally an economics major in college, Chowdhury became a self-taught software engineer. He now claims to have seen every aspect of the software development field, from front and back end design to the implementation of his own product which launched early this past October.
One of the most interesting aspects of the event was finding out how little the Computer Science Club knew about one of the most widely used programming tools available called “Git,” a tool that served as the subject for a prior CSC event this past semester. After quizzing attendees on some of the more advanced aspects of the program, members were surprised to learn the average within the group was about fifty percent. Chowdhury expected this outcome and was quick to advertise the merits of Wheelhouse in training aspiring developers in these kinds of fields. Chowdhury gave out t-shirts with the phrase, “You don’t know Git” to the students with the highest scores on the quiz.
The event closed with not only with free stickers, but also advice for aspiring software engineers in vital programming areas, such as communication, planning, quality, deployment, and the monitoring of code. The CSC plans on hosting many more events similar to this one, and hopes for great attendance in the future.
