One Coding Club, Two Friends, One Big Achievement!
Swift Coding Club
Where both learned, 5 to 7 pm
CSE AIML
Both in the same batch at PIET
Peer support
They helped each other prepare
Two friends, one club
K.S.N. Jithendra and P. Harshvardhan are CSE AIML students at PIET, Parul University, and both earned Apple’s App Development with Swift Associate certification. They are also friends who helped each other through it, and the centre of their learning was the campus Swift Coding Club at the Tinkering Hub.
K. S. N. Jithendra: learning one evening at a time
Jithendra comes from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. He found Parul University on Instagram while looking at options with a more workable fee structure, and made the long move to Gujarat. Within a couple of years he found a coding community, a trainer who guided him and an Apple certificate.
The Swift Coding Club is the centre of his daily learning. It runs in the evening, from about 5 to 7, with ten to twenty members on a given day, and he attends whenever his other work allows. Members work on simple coding problems, user interface programming and basic projects such as calculators.
He credits his mentor, Prof. Umang Panchal, at every step, and his friend Harshvardhan for help with problems. His advice is brief and warm: consistency matters more than anything, every failure is a step towards success, and do not be afraid to begin.
P. Harshvardhan: one language, one clear path
Harshvardhan came to the club on a friend’s suggestion, and what stood out to him was how Swift brings an app together. Where other work means handling the back end and the front end separately, he found Swift keeps it in one code for the entire thing.
He also liked the clarity of the path. Where Android and Java offer many certifications and several kinds of Java, the Swift Associate certification is a single clear level, which he calls a comfortable path.
His most practical point is about what happens after the workshop. The simple coding done during a workshop alone will not carry a student; it has to be practised regularly, to a standard. He has taken part in hackathons, cleared other certifications and is working on apps of his own, and his next step is to strengthen the basics towards a more advanced level.
The real agreement!
Between them, their advice converges on a few points:
- Be consistent. Learning a little every day beats a single burst of effort
- Treat every failure as a step forward, not a block
- Do not be afraid to begin, since the fear shrinks once you start
- Practise beyond the workshop, because programming rewards regular use
| SOURCE AND CONTEXT. This article is based on interviews with K. S. N. Jithendra and P. Harshvardhan. Where their accounts mention the group size as around eleven, the university’s official figure is ten. Their LinkedIn profiles are linked with tracking parameters removed. |
Explore the ecosystem and pathways!
Students who want a place to practise Swift every day can join the campus coding club and explore the Apple lab.
Apple Innovation Lab: paruluniversity.ac.in/apple-innovation-lab
Lakshya 2047, Centre for Future Skills: paruluniversity.ac.in/academics/lakshya-2047
People and organisations
- K. S. N. Jithendra CSE AIML student, Apple Swift Associate certified
- P. Harshvardhan CSE AIML student, Apple Swift Associate certified
- Prof. Umang Panchal Apple Certified Trainer
- Swift Coding Club, Tinkering Hub Student Swift community at Parul University
