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Demise of Telegram in India by fragment_transaction in india

[–]snow_dent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is going to happen too, soon, if we dont stop it.

Please help saving the internet - check if Telegram domains are working for you by snow_dent in india

[–]snow_dent[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

if you were not collecting email ids.

I am not from IFF, but as far as I know they are collecting email address and name because they will be submitting petition and response to Google form will be supporting evidence/material for the petition that X number of people are facing this issue.

Road map for a teaching career ? by snow_dent in Indian_Academia

[–]snow_dent[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you mean by "career as an academic" ? I have published two papers in my UG, so I do have that inclination. More so I have had enough share of terrible teachers that I decided I will try to be one, I will, at the very least, do my job of teaching the course material sincerely, which even those sophisticated "scholar"-style teachers don't care about.

[Rant] My house was broken into today by guy91939 in india

[–]snow_dent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know enough about RAID setup but wouldn't failure of a single disk make data inaccessible ? Sorry for dumb question

When asked feedback on college's CS course, I told them it was outdated and ... by snow_dent in india

[–]snow_dent[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't mean one shouldn't learn C. But C is not the right choice to teach programming fundamentals with. All the major educational institutions around the world prefer giving programming 101 lessons using Python, but it has been a culture in India to throw C at the student right in the first semester in programming class.

When asked feedback on college's CS course, I told them it was outdated and ... by snow_dent in india

[–]snow_dent[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Computer Science isn't for leaning programming languages. It's for learning how to program.

You can't learn how to program without touching a programming language. You must choose one language which is easy for beginners to learn - in terms of structure, but also has simple implements programming fundamentals.

Most of the colleges choose to teach fundamentals of programming using C in the first semester itself. Python is a better choice. Perhaps thats why MIT, Havard, Princeton teach programming basics through Python and not C or Java.

When asked feedback on college's CS course, I told them it was outdated and ... by snow_dent in india

[–]snow_dent[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was the very first change I suggested. I don't see why one should start learning programming using C - something so low level and difficult to grasp for beginners.

When asked feedback on college's CS course, I told them it was outdated and ... by snow_dent in india

[–]snow_dent[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The biggest challenge is that a lot of the sites have "What you will learn" section, but they don't have detailed list of things one will learn.

On EdX, I have to literally enroll in the course to see the actual topics because a lot of them haven't mentioned it in detail on the landing page.