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Free Educational resources

 

Another site with lot of online video courses (Free!) is http://freevideolectures.com

It contains subjects varying from science to philosophy…

The below ppt from slideshare contains links to many open education resources on engineering and other education streams.

Open Education Resources Presentation

January 9, 2009 Posted by | education | , | Leave a Comment

Career options in IT Industry

Most of us think that career path shall be decided after joining the company. But it would be wise to know and choose the right career path which aligns with our interest during graduation. This blog lists some career options with required skills.
System/Network Administrator
  • User Level operating system commands
  • OS administration skills on any one of Microsoft, Linux, Solaris
  • Knowledge on Routers, Switches, Firewall, Proxy, Send Mail, Printer, FTP, Telnet, ssh
  • Phone communication skills
§Database Administrator
  • User Level database management on any one database (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL) like add user, database, partition, etc
  • SQL Statements
  • Knowledge on catalog tables to introspect the database run time parameters
  • Query Execution and Performance tuning
§Web Designer
  • HTML, CSS, Photo Shop, Flash
  • Creative skills (color, position, etc)
§Web Programmer
  • HTML, CSS, Ajax
  • PHP / ASP / JSP
  • Web server configuration (IIS, Apache, Tomcat)
§System Programmer
  • C / C++
  • OS System programming (IPC, process, threads, etc)
§Application Programmer
  • Java / C#
  • Database Programming
§Technical Writer
  • Frame Maker / Latex
  • Visio / Rational Rose
  • Domain Expertise

September 11, 2008 Posted by | education | , , | Leave a Comment

Database Development Training

If you want to part of the Database kernel development team, following lectures from top universities will help you to acquire necessary skills. Each subject lecture may take between 12- 25 hours and you may omit some of the lectures from different universities for same subject. Please note that high speed internet connection is necessary as following are video lectures

1.Computing

Indiana University

2.Computer Organization

IIT Madras

3.Introduction To Problem Solving & Programming

IIT Kanpur

4.Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Berkeley University

5.Programming Languages & C

University of Washington

Indiana University

6. Introduction to C++

Stanford University

Central Institute

Indiana University

Southern Queensland

7.Data Structures

Berkeley University

8.Database Management System

IIT Madras

New Jersey University

Indiana University on Oracle

ArsDigita University

 

 

9.Design & Analysis of Algorithms

IIT Madras

10.Operating Systems and System Programming

Berkeley University

New Jersey university

 

September 9, 2008 Posted by | database, education | , , | 1 Comment

Free Lectures from IIT professors

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), all the seven IITs along with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) of Bangalore have joined hands to offer their courses online for free. It contains not only computer science related subjects, but also various engineering streams.

Find below links for computer science courses. For other engineering streams of IIT video lectures, visit this link

Computer Networks

Computer Organization

Analysis of Algorithms

Internet Technologies

Introduction To Problem Solving & Programming

Systems Analysis and Design

Embedded Systems

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Architecture

Data Structures and Algorithms

Database Management System

Introduction to Computer Graphics

C Programming and Data structure

This is a good initiative to improve the quality of engineering education in India and will help IT industry to reduce their budget on training the students. For people who had dreams to study in IIT, shall fulfill part of their dreams by listening to these lectures. Hope it helps all the faculties in engineering colleges in India to figure out the gaps and fix them.

August 27, 2008 Posted by | education | , | 7 Comments

   

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