The tools used in Uki

Here in this post we are going to discuss about Slack, Trello, Blogger, Google Classroom, Klavaro, and Grammarly

Slack

 

Slack is a cloud based instant messaging platform. Although it is just 6 years old it has more than 10 million active users from more than 6 laks organisations located in more than 150 countries. Slack offers us persistent chat room named as channels which organised by topics. Direct messages also possible here. Files and codes can be shared with slack.

Anyone can join in a workspace(a team organised for a specific task) using a specific URL or with an invitation which sent by a team admin.

Slack also integrates with Google Drive, Tello, Dropbox, Git hub and many more.

There also apps available in mobile phones (android and ios). So now its possible to work at any time with slack. Notification feature of slack helps us to access our work easily.

For team work you can try slack. It is easy to start. Within minutes you can create a workspace and your team to get start your work.

Trello

 

Trello is a web based project management system. It helps us to make our work easier. It is designed in kanban styled. I think understanding Kanban style will help us to understand how trello works.

Kanban style is a method to fulfil our tasks in an organised way.

Lets imagine that we have three sort of work at home. First one is to make a small garden around the house. Second one is to send a job application to a company. And the other is to buy some stationaries for your sister. These are three types of work we have planed to do. So kanban style will help us to fulfil these with a great management. Making a small garden is a long process while sending job application is small. Although it can be posted when we go out for shopping.

Here we maintain a board which divided into three columns. Columns should be named as follows To do, Doing and Done. Then write our three tasks in a small cards and hang it on to do column. After starting the task we got to change the card to the second column. After the work or task completed the card should be shifted to the column named ‘Done’ .

So we can always watch our progress in each tasks. The same thing is digitally presented by tello. All the team members can check every tasks and make their way. The deadlines can be fixed to every tasks so that we can make it on time. We could share files with our team members. It is easy to start and to use.

Google Classroom

 

Google Classroom is tool that makes e-learning simple. It is a product of google. It gives us the facility to share studying materials, assignments and many things. It also integrates with Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Slides etc. So it creates paperless schools and classes.

Blogger

Blogger is another tool from Google which helps us to publish posts. Blogger can be compared to personal note book. So as we write notes in our notebook we can write something and post it. It can be seen from all over the world. Yes it will be published in the Internet. And also it is like a personal website which shares our knowledge. We can beautify our site by changing its themes. We can add beauty to our post by adding photos, videos, charts and many more.

Klavara

 

Klavara is a software available in ubuntu that helps us to learn typing. Many skills are wanted to be a developer. But more than everything we need to communicate with computers with keyboard Because it is the only way. For that We have to learn to use Keyboard. We could say ‘should be able to play with keyboard’. Here Klavara comes to help us. The instructions written step by step help us to understand the whole techniques of typing and make our fingers dance on keyboard.

Grammarly 

Grammarly is a digital writing tool using artificial intelligence. It allows us to check our grammar and spelling. It is an additional tool for us to learn English as well as new vocabularies and punctuations.

Please feel free to ask questions and comment your feedbacks.

I hope in the future I may introduce you many more tools. And stay connected.

Getting Ready for the IT carrier

Today is our secound day in our programme. We learned many basic things how do IT company works and projects has been done in the real world. How do they communicate and much more. It will be a brief introduction to you to understand the real IT world.

Excercises

IT is a field always deals with computer. There Will be no hard work with the body but definitly there will be a harder work with the mind and someone called it brain. So to be a healthier person we should pay attention to our body fitness too. Excersise and meditation were main two things those will help us to maintain our physical and mental health in a good ratio.

The main platforms to be connected with

Slack

Slack is a cloud based instant messaging system. Which means it is a communication tool, using Internet. Simply as a metaphor we could say it like whatsapp. But having significant features for developers. Slack also provides a feature to share coding as plain codes. So it is very helpful for us to share our codes with our friends and teachers. Also we can learn and our mistakes can be found.

Trello

Trello the second tool we got introduced by our instructor. It Is a project management platform. In our daily life we use many things to remember the things we should do. For example we morn within our mouth when mum asked us to buy something from the shop. We put remainder in our phone to wish our friends on their birthday. Those are informal ways and just managing the things to be done. But in IT field or in any other companies single person could not remember all the works and their deadlines. So here Trello comes to help us. To manage all the projects and the dead lines. So no more “Sorry sir I don't know” or “I thought it was tommorrow”. Here we can publish the events and projects and make them know the deadlines too.

Google Classroom

This is a product of Google. As the products name said it is a classroom specially designed to make the e-learning into a Physical classroom atmosphere. It helps us to schedule and conduct classes also to share the studying materials. It will help us to be connected with the teacher and all the students in that same class.

Ubuntu

Honestly I was hating Ubuntu because of its interface, but after knowing the advantages really I fell love with it. Yes here I Want to discuss very few of them then you can understand why I said the above statement.

First of all it is an open source operating system. No cost is the greatest benefit and in fact wikipedia said updates of it is releasing within every six months.

Because of some technical issue I got to Uninstall Windows from my computer. But I felt no worries. Because I was eagerly waiting for Ubuntu.

And also our dream is to be a software engineers(no ref) we should get used to code and typing. Specially in Ubuntu the the way we make directories and files using terminal was wonderful. If you say not exactly I could say I enjoyed it. 

Another advantage in linux is most interpreters and compilers were already installed in linux based Operating system.

Programmers love Linux because of its versatility, power, security and speed. Versatility means can be changed as our wish.

Just for fun…Oh shish! An error message popup!
-On Windows- Uh, ok
-On Mac- Perhaps if I could upgrade to the newest version, this wouldn’t happen
-On Linux- Let’s see if someone has already solved the issue. Oh cool, there’s a hack! (copied from a Quora answer…)

10 basic commands for Ubuntu

Commands	Usage
ls	It will list all the files in the directory
clear	It will clear the terminal and gives us space
cd (file name)	Change directory (go to the named directory)
cd ..	Go backward
cd	Go to the root directory
mkdir (name)	Create a directory
touch (name + extension)	Create a file with the extension
rm	Remove a file
rmdir	Remove a directory
tree	Show all the sub directories and files in the directory.

So now I got to get used to these platforms to transfer my life...