Ketan's Musings

Wayne Beaton writes more on the eclipse java compiler.

This is an interesting perspective on why

a “Unix App” is “An app that you know how to use and I know how to use but nobody else knows how to use”.

I’d been invited to take OOCS lectures at the K.K. Wagh College of Engineering. As with all hackers, I immediately took up this invitation, simply because I could enjoy doing it. Moreover, I got an opportunity to learn some real cool technologies, that were really new to me.

The course involves OO, COM, DCOM, CORBA, JAVA/RMI and XML.

About 25 students had signed up for this subject. The attendance figures, with a grand maximum attendance of 9, with some 5 students regularly attending lectures. These figures are sure to paint a different picture It’s been about three weeks that I’ve been doing these lectures.

The results were declared a week ago, and I’ve not taken any lectures since then. Today was an altogether different experience. I learnt that there were just 9 students, who have decided to continue with the subject. The rest of the folks simply choose the easier alternative. While I’ve nothing against these people. The general reason being that — the subject is too vast in its breadth, and one has to read too many books for the course.

I asked the folks who had chosen to continue with OOCS, as to why they choose the difficult alternative.

The answer, surprisingly was that I was: I’ve been doing a good job at the lectures, so far.

Thanks guys, you’ve made my day. The efforts have been worth the staying up at nights.