Aree bro kya Questions pucha?
Every student goes through the viva process during their college days. It was brought into picture with the intention to test the basic understanding of students on a particular subject by interacting with them face-to-face.
But is comprehended by students as test of their ability to collect maximum study material, take lists of important questions from professors, take tips about the examiner's quirks and preferences by seniors, take important topic notes from front benchers and combine all this to determine the most probable questions which would be asked.All this when the viva would be due in week/days/day/hours/hour/minutes (as per attendance % of the student).
I belong to the category of hours. I have my last viva of the semester at 10am and here I am writing this blog on notepad(*insert a cool reason to use notepad here*) at 2am with only 50 % preparation done. Which actually leaves me a lot of free time as
Speed of Preparation ∝ 1/Time Left for Preparation
So I decided to brag about my recent stunt. We have 100s of reliable and good materials available online and offline to prepare but still what we trust is the word of the student who has just returned from his/her viva giving us valuable info about the nature of questions.
This routine for last 4 semesters gave me an idea to create a platform where everyone can contribute and everyone can receive such last minute tips.
Right after I finished my first viva I fired up my Apache and SQL servers to create a PHP based website where everyone can refer the questions others faced in their viva and then add their set of questions when they are done with their own viva. I had just learned how to use php and sql a week ago and was itching to test it out.
I didn't care about the frontend part as this platform's value was it's content not looks. Thus I was able to code this thing in 20 to 30 minutes. Now came the hosting part. At that point of time I thought I needed to be as anonymous as possible while making this as I had not thought through the consequences. So I ended up making a new mail account to link with the hosting service.
Then came the part which I had assumed to be the easiest . . . . . . . hosting the Website.
Now I had already hosted a website one website on firebase and 2 on Heroku which were the pillars of my confidence in hosting.
It all came crashing down as I read that we cant just upload our SQL file on Heroku directly. When I looked for an add-on It asked for my card info even for a payment of 0.00$ !!
Thus I went into a loop of searching a hosting platform, signing up and then crossing it out after discovering it flaws and also searching for SQL free add-ons on Heroku as I couldn't believe that such a established site wont have free database support, which I ended up finding but it was too erratic for my liking and I was too sleepy in the afternoon to learn its working.
Fortunately it worked well and now we had a platform to answer "Aree bro kya questions pucha?".
I belong to the category of hours. I have my last viva of the semester at 10am and here I am writing this blog on notepad(*insert a cool reason to use notepad here*) at 2am with only 50 % preparation done. Which actually leaves me a lot of free time as
Speed of Preparation ∝ 1/Time Left for Preparation
So I decided to brag about my recent stunt. We have 100s of reliable and good materials available online and offline to prepare but still what we trust is the word of the student who has just returned from his/her viva giving us valuable info about the nature of questions.
This routine for last 4 semesters gave me an idea to create a platform where everyone can contribute and everyone can receive such last minute tips.
Right after I finished my first viva I fired up my Apache and SQL servers to create a PHP based website where everyone can refer the questions others faced in their viva and then add their set of questions when they are done with their own viva. I had just learned how to use php and sql a week ago and was itching to test it out.
I didn't care about the frontend part as this platform's value was it's content not looks. Thus I was able to code this thing in 20 to 30 minutes. Now came the hosting part. At that point of time I thought I needed to be as anonymous as possible while making this as I had not thought through the consequences. So I ended up making a new mail account to link with the hosting service.
Then came the part which I had assumed to be the easiest . . . . . . . hosting the Website.
Now I had already hosted a website one website on firebase and 2 on Heroku which were the pillars of my confidence in hosting.
It all came crashing down as I read that we cant just upload our SQL file on Heroku directly. When I looked for an add-on It asked for my card info even for a payment of 0.00$ !!
Thus I went into a loop of searching a hosting platform, signing up and then crossing it out after discovering it flaws and also searching for SQL free add-ons on Heroku as I couldn't believe that such a established site wont have free database support, which I ended up finding but it was too erratic for my liking and I was too sleepy in the afternoon to learn its working.
It suddenly struck me that we had a practical on hosting websites. I quickly scanned through the lab manual and found the hosting practical. Ironically the hosting website itself had a shady domain name but beggars cant be choosers so I quickly signed up on that website all set to host the website and share it with my friends. However this excitement was short lived as I was reminded that 'there is no free food and if there is, its probably leftover'.
The hosting website was extreeeeeeeeeemly sloooooooooow!
It kept crashing and loading . . . . . crashing and loading . . . . . crashing and loading. Somehow after a series of jumping, banging, face-plaming, cursing, crying and giving up on my career as software engineer, I got through it successfully and shared that website with few of my contacts to test.
Fortunately it worked well and now we had a platform to answer "Aree bro kya questions pucha?".
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