Then there’s my friend Rishi Banerjee , who does Flutter App Development, Django and just about everything else. He’s one of the foremost evangelists of Coding, and has been a large part in the shaping of this college’s coding culture. Then there’s Nikhil Anand, who spends a lot of time honing his craft, and he has the results to back it up. Just check out his implementation of Warnsdorff’s algorithm’s Algorithm here. Dhruv Bhargava , this guy reads Machine Learning papers, and is the real deal. He also dabbles in Flutter App Development. Shikhar Vaish is an incredible competitive programmer and is right now working on Manipal Jaipur’s very own rover. This naming of names was to just show you an inkling of the diversity of developers you find here.
You can learn a lot by interacting with these people, and there’s a burgeoning Github culture with just about everyone I know using version control effectively and having a good portfolio of projects on Github. The contribution to external open source projects is still severely lacking though.
There are people who have cracked GSOC, won hackathons across the country and have even gone abroad to conduct research. The people you want to look up to are there, if you look in the right places. There’s not much awareness being spread by the college about the wonderful things the student body is doing, and I think that needs to be done, because it is very easy to spend four years thinking nobody is doing anything when a lot of people are doing a very considerable something.