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Diksha

Hi, I am Diksha, currently exploring my developer instincts at Microsoft. I am one of the 50 recipients from Asia- Pacific of the Google Anita Borg Scholarship- 2016. I am involved with initiatives to encourage women in STEM. When I am not around my laptop, I love to spend my time running / cycling on the roads of Hyderabad.

  1. Interview Preparation- Quick Guide- Part 2

    This is a series of blog posts to help anyone preparing for any interview to revise the important concepts of competitive programming in cpp quickly with resources from web that I found helped me the best. …

    • on Interview

  2. Interview Preparation- Quick Guide- Part 1

    This is a series of blog posts to help anyone preparing for any interview to revise the important concepts of competitive programming in cpp quickly with resources from web that I found helped me the best. …

    • on Interview

  3. My Running Journey

    It was the month of August in the year 2016. I was preparing for my first solo trip to Hyderabad and all I wanted at that time was to purchase a DSLR. I had never traveled before and always had this wish that whenever I decided to sneak out of Delhi, I would capture every memory in High Resolution. …

    • on Running

  4. Install Visual Studio Code on your MacBook and configure it for CPP

    I used to be frequent with practicing problems from CodeChef/ HackerRank back in college. The transition to a corporate life one year back took me on a break. One fine evening, I realized I am missing something and that bought me back to Algorithmic challenges. …

    • on Microsoft

  5. Microsoft New Hires' Day- My Story

    My first tryst with Microsoft was in the year 2005 when I started using Microsoft Paint to draw animals to teach my younger cousin. It was eventually used by us to listen to music and play our beloved Super Mario. It was in the year 2006 when I purchased my first “licensed” Windows XP software installation CD. The years that followed were about deleting random files from my C drive because “they refused to open”. I fail to recall the number of times I had re- installed my OS by 2010 (that could be as much as 50). …

    • on Microsoft

  6. Quick guide to solving problems based on Bit Manipulation

    Below, I have compiled a 2- minute quick read for solving programming challenges based on Bit Manipulation. …

    • on Programming

  7. My Google Anita Borg Scholarship: Asia- Pacific Experience

    My recent answer on Quora motivated me to complete this impending blog post. I hope my post inspires every woman who reads this to apply for this scholarship and get more involved with their community to encourage more women to code. …

    • on scholarship

  8. Deploy Django application on Heroku

    I have deployed my multiple django applications on Heroku. This blog post is about the right way of doing it with minimum efforts. …

    • on Heroku

  9. Guide to some commonly used Django functions

    Here is a quick guide to the arguments of some of the most commonly used functions in django- …

    • on DJango

  10. How to contribute on Github?

    This blog post is about contributing to various projects on Github. After finding a project, one wishes to contribute to, it is a three step process. It can be summarised as: …

    • on Github