KWoC Project Report
What is KWoC? Kharagpur Winter of Code ( KWoC ), is a 5 week long Open Source coding event, hosted by IIT-KGP, in (you guessed it...) winter. Students from across the country who are new to the realm of Open Source Software try to contribute to projects involving Machine Learning, DBMS, Cyber Security, Compiler Design, and more! I highly recommend KWoC to new programmers who want to get into Open Source Development. Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is basically software whose source code can be viewed, edited, and used freely by anyone interested to do so. The purpose of FOSS is to come up with solutions to real world problems, and get people from all over the world to contribute, in the form of adding new features, discovering and fixing bugs and, documenting pre-existing code. Selecting a Project - KWoC had an array of amazing projects to choose from, but Sim-C really caught my eye, since it involved Compiler Design, and was written in Python, a language I am familiar with (aren&#