Following is the syllabus for the students of all engineering colleges, which teaches MSwindows and MSword. It appears that officials are determinted to waste national resources and to make ourself slave. While in Instructional objective they mention package like MS word, but later in contents they fixed it to only M$.
H S Rai wrote:
Following is the syllabus for the students of all engineering colleges, which teaches MSwindows and MSword.
Most people passing out of colleges have a knowledge of working on ASP and Oracle. It is very hard (impossible) to get freshers who would be able to work on PHP, which is the most popular language for server side scripting. Speaking of Oracle, you would be surprised to know that most freshers think RDBMS = Oracle.
Due to the short sitedness of the college authorities, the students are usually left high and dry. Truly a sad state of affairs.
Quoting Raj Shekhar rajshekhar@hotpop.com:
H S Rai wrote:
Following is the syllabus for the students of all engineering colleges, which teaches MSwindows and MSword.
Most people passing out of colleges have a knowledge of working on ASP and Oracle. It is very hard (impossible) to get freshers who would be able to work on PHP, which is the most popular language for server side scripting. Speaking of Oracle, you would be surprised to know that most freshers think RDBMS = Oracle.
Not really. I am final year student of an engineering college(NITT, formerly RECT). We use MySQL for most of our local databases. And all the old Foxbase databases are being converted to MySQL. And PHP is being used for server side scripting, for all intranet sites. All our intranet and internet webservers are powered by Apache.
But I don't think, using MySQL, PHP or Latex will have any effect on the attitude of the students. What we need is a change in the attitude of the students.
When I joined my college I found that many of the students were not willing to show the source code of their programs!(Eventhough they had no idea of making money by selling the program). One of the guys, sent us the assembly dump(gcc - S program.c) of his program, when asked to show the source!
I was horrified by this attitude of the students. One thing I did to change this, was to start a source code sharing site. I called it the CORE - COde REpository. A common place where students can upload their programs(along with the source code) and can share programming tips and tricks.(The home page of the site, encourages the students to use the GPL license. It also has links to essays written by Richard Stallman)
Seeing many students share their source code, the same guy who sent us the assembly dump, uploaded his program on to the CORE along with the source code!
Today, CORE is celebrating the addition of the 50th program to its repository!
I guess, similar steps in other colleges is what is needed.
Vijay
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