The familiar sound of keyboards clicking and clacking fills E203, the Java room, while a student explains to his peers the basics of web development. This year, after rebranding the Web Development club into the Development club and combining aspects of both web and mobile development, the club hopes to gain new members. The Development Club has a few main goals: to help students develop their own apps and websites and also learn new tricks to make their projects at a high level and standard.
Because technology is a part of many households in the Silicon Valley, secretary junior Derek Lee emphasized why technology is important and how it relates to the expansion of the Development Club.
“This is a new modern age where everyone wants to learn how to code,” Lee explained. “There is a lot more to development that you can learn from it and we want to use our great resources to provide to our members so they can learn.”
The Development Club will help new members gain experience through immersive group work and events such as hackathons and presentations from guest speakers in the industry. The club will also develop apps as a group to teach new members the process of building an app.
“We’ll be building a website for Robotics and instead of only the officers building it, everyone will be a part of the process,” Khanna said. “Everyone can have their name on the website.”
The Development Club will help members by teaching them new skills to prepare for future hackathons. In development, hackathons are important as they test the developer’s capability to produce a product in a given amount of time on a given topic.
“We want to help them understand things on their own in a project-based environment,” Khanna said.
The Dev Club will have their first meeting on Friday, Sept. 30 in E203 during lunch.
