On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.com wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.com Date: 2014-08-26 19:06 GMT+05:30 Subject: How to get a computer science career? To: ILUG-C ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in
Few weeks ago, I wrote an article on students and computer science job in Tamil here. http://kaniyam.com/how-to-get-a-computer-science-job/
On reading this, Mr. Ashok ashokramach@gmail.com translated that article in English.
Here it is.
http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/how-to-get-a-computer-science-caree...
Thanks Ashok for the translation.
Read and share your thoughts.
To do a reasonably good project, one will have to start in the 5th SEM. It takes considerable time to gather sufficient info to decide on a project. It is rare that one has an utterly unique project. Consequently one would find a large number of very similar projects. Hence you have to think of SUBSTANTIALLY extending from similar projects. For Software projects, there were always plenty of FOSS projects around. Now the same is true for hardware projects too. Joining up an existing projects user and deve mail lists helps you get firsthand experience on stuff like coding style, use of repos, direction in which projects are moving etc. It also acts as a sounding board for your new idea.
If one were seriously interested, one would be approaching industries for summer internships at the end of EVERY even sem. If you do the above you would probably land a job even before you got hold of your results.
In contrast to the above, Almost every mailing list is full of final year idiots pleading for deliverance form half baked, ill thought out projects. This mailing list has had it's fair share of such folks. Small wonder that most dont get hired
-- Regards, T.Shrinivasan
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-- Regards, T.Shrinivasan
My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
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