Higher Engineering Education

My personal voyage on Linux started in 1996 when PC Quest (an Indian IT magazine) distributed a free CD containing Slackware Linux with its issue. Slackware as the reputation goes is not the easiest of the Linux distributions to install. My friend and I tried to install it several times working throughout the night but were unsuccessful. It always got stuck at the exact same point where in it needed our help, ‘mount the media’. Now coming from the Windows land, this whole mount was absolutely new ...

The idea of writing this blog entry came up when we started talking to students encouraging them to take up our C and C++ offerings. In the evolved world (as in terms of age and work experience) it was quite easy for folks to say that they do not know a particular lanugage especially C and C++, however, that was not quite the case with students. Most of them felt that they know these languages fairly well to not take up a module (or course) on them. Delving further, it came up that this was a mix ...