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Project Showcase Starting a Tech Career

139 students developed projects using Figma and Node.js
During the project showcase. 58 teams presented their
projects
1. 25 Diploma students learnt and developed Node.JS
projects in 2 days.
2. 40+ BTech 1st year students, learnt Node.js in 20 hrs
and developed their projects in 6 hrs.
3. 50+ students from BTech 1st year defined a problem
statement and created Figma within 5 days.
4. 31 projects were built on NodeJS.
5. 26 projects were created using Figma.
6. Other Events: Insight Gallery, People Wealth and
Academic Scholarship. The SoftwareHub mentors
presented 11 Tech White Papers
11 student interns of St. Mary’s were selected to
meet the super CTO Mr. Hariharan Anand. Most
students struggle with their first internship, they
tend to get into self doubt- “Will I be able to
make it”. Mr. Hariharan Anand, a super CTO
guided these students on how to make consistent
steps to make it!
Names of Participants: Harini Vasa, Esther
Niharika, Diksha Tembre, A. Duhita, Viswa Teja,
Bhagyam Pardha Saradhi, S. Madhu Goud, Siri
Chandana, Abdul Hamid, Gaurav Upadhyay from
the second year and Yuvaraj Duddukuru from the
first year.

SoftwareHub Deshmukhi is a joint initiative of St.Marys Group and DT, to bring in

an industry orientation to higher education in India.
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Deshmukhi Developers Community: 139 of us now!

Node.js Projects: 31
Figma Projects: 26

2nd yr Diploma Devs: 20

3rd yr Diploma Devs: 5
1st yr B.Tech. Devs: 103
2nd yr B.Tech. Devs: 11

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SoftwareHub Team is preparing a Whitepaper about
the achievement of our St.Marys Diploma students.
This whitepaper shall be circulated with the HODs of
the world’s best universities like Stanford, Harvard,
MIT etc. So what is this achievement? How exactly
are we putting Deshmukhi on the worldmap?
Deshmukhi on the World Map
The Achievement
20 students from the Diploma programme (2nd year)
were able to learn and complete Node.js projects within 2-days.
These 17 year olds did what most 21-22 yr olds take 2-months
They didn’t just excel in Technology, but also Business.
Mr. Hariharan Anand, super CTO, said that most employees
with 2+yrs experience struggle to get the business context,
but these 17yr olds could convey the business context.
Obstacles Faced
1- Most students has very basic programming knowledge.
2- Students did not have laptops to complete their projects.
3- The semester was to end on Dec 5th and the event was
scheduled on Nov 25th, with end-semester exams closeby.
4- Students got intimidated by the technical jargon in Node.js.
5- The students had only two days to complete their Node.js
projects.They took 2 weeks to build their Figma project, due to
lack of laptops. The students were terrified and wanted to
present Figma, not Node.js.
SoftwareHub Deshmukhi is a joint initiative of St.Marys Group and DT, to bring in
an industry orientation to higher education in India.
The numbers journey
150 students- expressed interest initially
25 students completed their projects
7 students won the gold medal
Winning Projects: Goddess of Health and Weaveline.
Some Background
1- Node.js is a Javascript based environment to run a server.
2- Most B.Tech. grads take more than 2-months to learn Node.js.
3- Freshers in corporate companies prefer frontend and skip
backend.Oxford University’s research states that most freshers
find backend to be tougher than Frontend.
The Inspiration
1- The faculty taught the necessary basics, for the project.
2- The faculty gave their personal laptops to the students.
3- The faculty used a few lab periods and project periods.
4- The faculty simplified jargon with the Feynman technique.
5- The faculty gave a simple architecture and a well commented
code.
The faculty spoke to the trainers, understood the bottlenecks
that BTech students were facing while learning and took care of
these topics while teaching, so these students save time. The
faculty gave confidence to the students and pushed them to
execute Node.js projects, with unwavering faith.
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Introduction of Node.js Basics: 3hrs

The faculty used Feynman Technique to
cover complex topics like folder
structure, within 3hrs, the students
trusted the faculty and kept navigating
through middlewares, controllers

Exploration: 2hrs
The students explored the entire
Deshmukhi express code and this
reduced the fear of Node.js.

Code Changes: 6hrs

Frontend changes- 3hrs
The forms, the table, the key value pairs
Backend changes- 3hrs
Database, API modifications, integration
Solving bugs: 2hrs

The Diploma Faculty’s Strategy

PPT presentation and mock: 3hrs

The students prepared a PPT and

did a mock presentation in the
class. This helped them present
well and the Diploma students
topped the live leaderboard
(audience feedback).

The top 7 projects on the Live

Dashboard were of Diploma
students, B.Tech. students took
the next three spots!

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Learnings
“I smashed all my personal bug fixing records yesterday” said
Priyank Kumawat, a full stack developer from Jaipur, an
Industrial mentor with SoftwareHub.
The teachers and mentors had an experience of a life-time
while helping these 139 students in executing world-class
projects that blend Technology, Business and Design (the Elon
Musk framework).
Hygiene Checklist: DT CEO Tarun gave a 3 point checklist
to help students in debugging
1- Console Log: You may write a console log to check if the
form data got captured by the frontend. A simple console
log command can help you in seeing the data captured by
the front end. If this fails, one can inspect the request.ejs
and request.js.
2- Payload: You may inspect the payload(from browser) after
clicking the submit button. If it fails, you can check create.js.
3- Console log of the Read API: You can write a console log
to check the data that is sent by the backend. If this fails,
you can check read.js and dashboard.ejs files.
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from the experience
Error List
1- Data not showing up: The Get API failed, because
the database was not connected with the backend
properly. The students used different variables in the
Create API and the Read API, which led to this error.
2- Data not getting captured: The students used a
different ID in the form and in the create form. So the
form data wasn’t passed correctly.
3- Payload failing: The students used different variable
names while destructuring the front end and while
creating a payload to be sent to the database.
Data Flows- the life hack
DT CEO Tarun explained how the data flows from
HTML to Frontend to Middleware to Backend to
Database and then from Database to Backend to
Frontend to the HTML, so the young developer can
patiently track the data flows.
This helped students navigate through the folder
structure and understand the code architecture.
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The Super CTO said
“Most employees with 2yrs experience struggle
when asked to articulate the business context.
But these students could articulate that. These
projects are not just usual academic projects,
but have serious commercial value. One
student developed a solution to solve
corruption, the cause is huge, he explained
how the Grihalakshmi scheme actually works.
I think these projects should be taken till a
logical conclusion and I would want to help
the students if required”
SoftwareHub Deshmukhi is a joint initiative of St.Marys Group and DT, to bring in
an industry orientation to higher education in India.
“Wow!”
“Companies work with large codebases which are
very difficult to understand. But, we are giving the
students a toy (smaller codebase), which would
help them get familiar with the codebase, get an
understanding of the basic structure first of the
codebase and explore more afterwards.” - on the
approach used by St.Marys Industrial Mentors
“You guys are doing this internship, now.
Like most other students, you could have
chosen to just pass exams (but you didn’t).
You are already one step ahead (of the other
students) since you are already sitting with a
CTO. You have already put in a lot of effort
and that is why you’re sitting here.” - to
Student Interns
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SoftwareHub Deshmukhi is a joint initiative of St.Marys Group and DT, to bring in

an industry orientation to higher education in India.
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SoftwareHub Deshmukhi is a joint initiative of St.Marys Group and DT, to bring in

an industry orientation to higher education in India.