Superpower India
This isn’t really it. It’s not just the professors who are inept with basic computer science knowledge.
The Students who cleared exams for entering into the top Computer Science courses, they are actually the ones to laugh about.
Here’s a list of things I’ve heard from supposedly Intelligent kids :
- … Hey! You know what? You can type your C code in notepad and then save it as .C and then run it in C++. (By C++ he meant the Borland C++ compiler)
- From what Institute can I learn Hacking? I need to hack a website.
- A : There’s an examination next week on C programming, have you prepared?
- B : Bah! I know the whole C, I’ve executed all the code the professor gave us.
- (me asking B) Why did you take up Software Engg. ?
- (his reply) IT has a wide scope in India.
- (asking me for a copy of the Borland IDE) Do you have TC? (I don’t know why they think that the blue screen in that cranky old Borland editor is THE programming language)
- (while writing HTML in notepad) How do you insert the anchor tag for hyperlinks?
- (reply) Look it up in the notepad Help Topics.
Thankfully, my professors are a little better than Uncool’s. Although a few classics I’ve probably heard more than twice :
- … Oracle and SQL are the same things (before repeatedly pronouncing SQL as ‘Sequel’)
- In the practical world, Linux is not used anymore.
- It took me 5 years to understand the difference between Multitasking and Multiprogramming
It’s not that I’m in the worst college, it’s just that people around me don’t seem to care about the stuff they learn in college, not even the things that are directly related to the course, their main objective is to score marks in exams and get jobs with lots of money.
Invariably, there are always talks on India being an IT superpower. An IT Superpower whose university’s conduct the so called ‘IT Quizzes’ filled in with questions from Database management (Well, TCS is an exception) and those random kids giving me weird looks when I read Ruby books in the library or talk about Dynamic Programing and LISP.
Tags: Colleges, Computer Science, India, IT, Lame, Life, Superpower
Posted on: 20th January 2009 by: kitallis
13 Comments
Heh, it’s the same everywhere…
Btw, what do you mean by LISP? Is it Common Lisp, or something like Scheme?
Something like both. Both are the main Dialects.
I’m into Common LISP. Although, I have had great trouble finding books here in India.
Sucks for us.
You can try Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. It’s available for free on http://www.gigamonkeys.com. It’s pretty snazzy.
For Scheme the best practical resource I could find (free) is SICP by Abelson and Sussman.
I’ve read the first two chapters of TPCL before.
You see, It’s not easy reading an e-book.
“Sequel” is a very common and rather accepted pronunciation of “SQL”
The pronunciation of “S Q L” as “sequel” lies, in my experience, on age and time in the industry. People that have been around relational db’s since before around 1985 almost always use the “sequel” pronunciation.
That may be geographically contextual of course, but it has been true from my experience.
You kids all use “S Q L”, now… GET OFF MY YARD! =)
I don’t know, sounds a little lame to me.
Lamer, when someone says it continuously over 20 times in a single lecture and then sums it up with an equality comparison with SQL.
Hi,
In my opinion you are absolutely. But i would like to add here one more thing.
It is just that people in general dont know what really is meant by being a computer programmer. The students in college are quite content by solving some kiddish problems of yashvant kanetkar which only runs on DOS(16bit-i hope i am right if not,then i myself is declaring that i also belong to those genius engineering grads which india produces,he he hope u got the sarcasm) in the c programming language. They are not bothered about developing some application which can be really used in the industry like a browser or an ERP based product etc etc
when i was in college i also had faced the same issue. the thing in our college was that there were certain groups who had studied C++ in the school. and lecturers themselves dont know any bit of programming. So it was very complex of all of us and we started having doubt on our abilities.
And my batchmates around me had this opinion that C,C++ is no more used in the industry. Java is cool because it is used to making websites etc.
And to some extent,i would blame the students as well as their parents themselves. Parents are to be blamed for major part. These parent do not have any understanding of what really is meant by an engineer(exceptions are always there). They only force kids to chose a stream which would give them a shit job in the IT mnc’s to earn.go bald,develop round cheek(means look ugly when u should look a dasher) and to raise their heads in front of their peers because they even get to know the salaries which in my opinion is disgrace to a professional and his profession.
This trend will continue. So i would suggest you to leave this nation as people like you can only excel there. not here
Hey spiderman,
“people in general dont know what really is meant by being a computer programmer”, yes and people in general also don’t know how to play a guitar. And BHAAI SAAAB PEEPAAL IN _GENERAL_ SHOULD NOT KNOW. DO YOU *KNOW* THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF SHITE PEOPLE IN _GENERAL_ KNOW?
Why should everyone know everything at all? Aren’t we all supposed to be unique? So that we all can come together as “Human Beings” and collaborate to create amazing things.
Aren’t we supposed to be unique so that each one can spend some time to think over what he/she loves and live a fulfilling life?
bada aya people in general wala! ab jake programming apni maa ko sikha.. haha dude I haven’t yet read you whole comment… hahaha
“some application which can be really used in the industry like a browser or an ERP based product”
Spider Uncle tab to engineering chorni paregi na?
Ab itna bhi risk taking attitude to paal nahi sakte, hain bhai?
Bhai kya hai ki pitaji ke pas na to ye sab fund karne ka paisa hai, na hi itna vishwas ham pe ki 4 saal khilaye pilaye aur company khada karne ka support de… hai ki nahi?
Doosri baat ye, ki aaj kal achhe college jana to bahot mushkil hai, aur na jaa paye to yahi sade college ki sadi padhai, sade logo ka lecture wagera sehna parta hai. usme se kinhi jageho pe to bhai mushkil se 6 productive hours bachte hain din ke… usme bhi assignment karo, lap report ke kagaz pe syahi lagao, viva, test ye yo lund fund… kuch kuch college wale tension dete rehte hain…
Ye to kuch bhi nahi, Spiderman ji, subjects ka to bada ghotala hai, kya bataen, mere college me to madar** 2nd year me bhi picha nahi chorte, corrosion parho, material science parho, behen*** fir jake nanno physics bhi parho… environment science ka to na pucho haaan. Sochoge home science ka course kar raha hoo?? hae na… soch to yehi rahe hoge, hint hint… pichle semester dsp bhi parhi hai! Ab sochoge zaroor ilektraniks ka launda hoga… par aapko ye jaan kar ashcharya hoga ki ye sab ool julool, airi gairi cheeze kampyutar vigyaan ke andar thoosi jaa chuki hain. Ab bolo, bhai ab kaha se nikale tumhara wo browser aur “Bina kisi experience ke banaya hua ERP shit”… hain ?
Teesri baat ye, ki bhala itne saal ho gaye manushya ko is prithvi pe… chakka banaya, use gadkaya, par manav itna chalooo tha ki usne age chakke pe chakka banaya par dobara nahi banaya… kehne ka matlab hai “Dant ReInvent the Wheela”
So ye engineer aapke is mahan uddeshy ko kyo poora kare…
bhai aaj wo zamana gaya jab gand tod ke raat kaam karne wale ko puraskar dete the. Ajkal is situation me do cheeze ho sakti hain -
1. yaa to koi politics khelne wala chootiya aapko dhakka deke aage nikalega..
2. ya log ye dekh ke hasenge ki 2 minute ke kaam ko ghanto me kar rahe ho…
3. 1 ya 2 nahi hua, to samman + paisa milega, kyoki zaroor kuch awesome bana rahe hoge.
So, kya baat kar raha tha main? haan to bhaiya aapne ye jo web browser banane ki misaal di hai na… Na! never! ye bakwas updesh kisi naujawan ko kripaya naa de. Ya to wo aapki sun ke kuch kar baithega (will embed a browser control in app) ya fir aapko “dan’t re-invent the wheel, reuse!” ka paath sunaega, aapko batayega ki aajkal poori duniya milke ek browser banati hai… use improve karti hai, na ki chootiyo ki tarah sab apna apna browser liye baithe rehte hain…
wagera.. wagers..
fuck be abhi to aapka comment poora bhi nahi parha… shite shite…
“These parent do not have any understanding of what really is meant by an engineer”
Bhai abhi jo itne sare engineer ban rahe hain na, unko pakka se idea hoga ki engineer kise kehte hain, so shayad furute me scene kuch aur ho. Par haa majority jise engineering nahi karni thi, aur unke parents ne karwaya, wo na, main blag me likh ke deta hoo, apne bachhe ko bekar ki engineering nahi karwaenge.
“This trend will continue”
Haan bhai, ye baat sai hai. Hone do kya fark parta hai, ek din sab saturate ho jayega, fir thaliya leke bajate rahenge.
The sane ones would have found new ways by then.
So, thats the end of my half baked opinions.
Don’t mind spider chacha. I’m full of these half baked thoughts, which I just felt like putting down to dirty some place before sleeping.