Small Contribution
It felt very nice to read this article today in the papers. I was also part of this program. It was actually through this program that i got an opportunity to give a small lecture at PESIT on socket programming.
I joined this program only as a backup plan and was lucky enough to get a chance to interact with the students and share some gyan with them. I came to know about the enormity of this project only later on when we were all invited for the lunch party. This program has no direct links between the student and company. In the sense that, there is no compulsion on the students to join the company or take internship through this program. Its purely a knowledge sharing activity completely done by volunteers. I was surprised to know that, one of the faculty members on this program was actually a student of this program a couple of years ago and voluntered to contribute just because he knew how helpful this program was for him and wanted to help his college juniors in bridging the gap between the college curriculum and the industry expectation.
Yes, it was a pity to know that these students who have broadband in their college campuses and have access to all the opensource courseware from MIT, Stanford, Harvard and google were not familiar with Socket Prgramming. !!! I had this impression that the curriculum has changed a lot since the days we studied in college and that the students were more knowledgable than us. But, only after visiting the college i figured out that it was only the non-curriculum activities where the knowledge was more, in things like, mobile usage, internet fun surfing, video games. Well, yeah, college days are for having fun, but with the study system that we have in India, colleges just end up being that, "a place for having fun" and nothing much. There is hardly any scope for good technical discussions and innovations.
Hopefully, with more such voluntary activities, we should be able to improve the relationship between the industry and college. I feel that unless the tests conducted in college are not more innovative and practical and more near to the reality, there wont be much improvement in the current situation. It would be really great to live in a day when the colleges would be a place for seeding new ideas, and breaking new grounds for the industry to then jump in and materialise these innovations.
I joined this program only as a backup plan and was lucky enough to get a chance to interact with the students and share some gyan with them. I came to know about the enormity of this project only later on when we were all invited for the lunch party. This program has no direct links between the student and company. In the sense that, there is no compulsion on the students to join the company or take internship through this program. Its purely a knowledge sharing activity completely done by volunteers. I was surprised to know that, one of the faculty members on this program was actually a student of this program a couple of years ago and voluntered to contribute just because he knew how helpful this program was for him and wanted to help his college juniors in bridging the gap between the college curriculum and the industry expectation.
Yes, it was a pity to know that these students who have broadband in their college campuses and have access to all the opensource courseware from MIT, Stanford, Harvard and google were not familiar with Socket Prgramming. !!! I had this impression that the curriculum has changed a lot since the days we studied in college and that the students were more knowledgable than us. But, only after visiting the college i figured out that it was only the non-curriculum activities where the knowledge was more, in things like, mobile usage, internet fun surfing, video games. Well, yeah, college days are for having fun, but with the study system that we have in India, colleges just end up being that, "a place for having fun" and nothing much. There is hardly any scope for good technical discussions and innovations.
Hopefully, with more such voluntary activities, we should be able to improve the relationship between the industry and college. I feel that unless the tests conducted in college are not more innovative and practical and more near to the reality, there wont be much improvement in the current situation. It would be really great to live in a day when the colleges would be a place for seeding new ideas, and breaking new grounds for the industry to then jump in and materialise these innovations.
Amen.... :)
ReplyDeleteNice man..u certainly made a good contribution.
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