Is it worth joining GDSC for someone who is not into programming that much or at all ?

[Justaphysicsnerd]

I got into Engineering school last year (nice dad joke, college started like on 27th december so still in first semester) and I am an Electronics Engineering major and I am not that much into programming. I mean I have done some coding in the past while making some mods and custom maps for a few games I used to play but other than that I don't really like the idea of doing a coding related job, firstly since I like the actual computer hardware more i.e. I am more interested in how the processor actually works, how a processor is made, how a gpu works etc. hence my major.

 

Two days from the time of writing this post is the orientation ceremony/seminar for the Google Developer Student Club at my college, should I attend it ? (Its gonna be online since the pandemic is still pretty wild in my country) The Whatsapp message that informed us all of the orientation said "As u can see its written its compulsory hence its compulsory". Also the notice had a kinda ad from GDSC and it had the following lines "Not a developer? You're at the right place!" That is just witty advertising right ?

 

I don't wanna sound patronizing or think of myself as superior but here is how I see it : GDSC is a bunch of people into coding and programming (stuff like competitive programming, hackathons etc.) but that is exactly what I am *not* into. So what would I get from attending there seminars or joining their club ?

[Skiiwee29]

what harm to attend the meeting and learn a little bit if its something you want to do or try? If not, you wasted only an hour or 2 at most. 

[Chris Pratt]

I know it's not your primary passion, but there's still a lot of value in knowing at least a little about programming for your choice of careers. Software is often the glue for a lot of electronics projects, and if you know a bit of code, you can wire things up yourself in prototyping stages instead of having to rely on others to take what you've engineered and actually make it work.

 

That's a long way of saying, go ahead and attend. If you get nothing from it, you don't have to do it again, but it never hurts to broaden your horizons.

[Justaphysicsnerd]

Okie, I should just attend it. Its on a sunday anyway.

[trag1c]

Software and hardware developers are also somewhat interconnected fields, there is a lot of shared knowledge between them. Never shy away from an opportunity to learn and to also network. Networking with people is huge, it can be the difference between a long job hunt and a very short one.

 

I agree with the others and say just go, 2hrs of your life isn't much to give up for something that will probably reward you in the future.