Re: [Ilugc] [OT] self taught programmers vs programmers with degrees

2008-06-29 Thread Prashanth Mohan
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28-Jun-08, at 9:11 PM, Raman.P wrote: > >>> populates your RAM with most of the basics. With that >>> foundation you >>> can leverage the internet to solve bigger problems. >>> >> Unfortunately in todays education

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] self taught programmers vs programmers with degrees

2008-06-29 Thread Prashanth Mohan
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The confrontation between teaching and research is (IMNSHO) entirely > artificial. I don't think there is a confrontation at all. I was merely responding to KG's comment that the emphasis is on training students to

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Prashanth Mohan
Hello Mr Srinivasan, May I ask what I did to invite your scorn? :-). On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Srinivasan Sundararajan wrote: > Some (of I hope not many) will also be looking askance at me -- not only I > am from NRCFOSS, I am now going off from AU-KBC to join C-DAC Chennai. Does > it goin