Robokar: Robot Programming Workshop

               On the 9^th of December 2019 (Monday), Section 03 of the Software Engineering Course (SECJ) attended a workshop on Robocar Programming organized by Dr. Haswadi, which was hosted by the Faculty of Computing’s Robocar Club. The workshop was held inside the Active Learning Lab (351-01) located on the third floor of N28. There was a total of 5 staff members, and around 42 students, making a total of roughly 47 persons involved in this workshop.

                At around 2 pm in the afternoon, the participants started to make their way into the Active Learning Lab after having their lunch. The attendance of all the participants was taken in the Lab before proceeding to start the workshop. Then, the workshop began with an opening speech by the head speaker, in which he introduced to the participants about the history of the autocar club. After the short introduction, the workshop was continued by having a programming session for the participants. During this session, the students were taught about some basics of robocar programming and was given a task to program their robocars together with their group members. Roughly an hour was given to every group to program their robocars respectively and then the participants were asked to head down to the second floor for a competition. At around 4 pm the competition began and all the groups placed their robocars on the track one by one to determine which group finished the track in the shortest amount of time. The competition was carried out for around 30 minutes until the last group finished their lap. After that, the top three groups who finished the track in the shortest time were given some rewards in an award-giving ceremony before the workshop ended at roughly 5 pm. Lastly, before the participants left, a group photo session was held and all the participants took some splendid pictures together. Everybody thanked Dr. Haswadi after the photo session and parted ways after that.

1. All of us in this group agree that our main goal with our program of software engineering is to graduate and become successful software engineers in the future. On the other hand, our goal regarding this course (Technology and Information System) is to learn the components of a computer thoroughly and to have a basic understanding of how computers function.
2. This workshop has taught us to think critically and program robocars and also motivated us to study harder to pursue our goal of becoming software engineers, which is a great help for us.
3. In order to improve our potential in the industry, we plan to improve not only our knowledge in computers but also our skills as leaders and problem solvers so as to become better software engineers in the future.