Go Embedded!

Stories of Indian students and professionals thronging distant shores in search of greener pastures and better education opportunities are now all too common. Every year more than 100,0000 students from India travel to United States alone to get higher education. Here is the story of an American inventor who traveled not less than 14,000 kilometers from Chicago, USA to Nagpur, India to learn C Programming from the true master of the art – Yashavant Kanetkar. His name is CLINTON EVGENE CRAWFORD. At first glance he appears to be a normal American – always smiling, eager to speak to people and willing to adjust to whatever foreign countries might have to offer to them.

Mr. Clinton came to India with a dream of productising more than 10 inventions – small and large (by his own admission). He plans to hire several programmers to give shape to his ideas. He says that he plans to learn programming because he wants to be able to tell who is really a good programmer.

On landing at Nagpur airport he came straight to our Ramnagar office. On the airport one of the Taxi drivers told his friends to cheat the “foreigner”. But thankfully he was not cheated and he came here safely. On arriving here, Mr. Sharmaji a guard at our office who doesn’t know a word in english managed to communicate with him and found him a AC room nearby. He is quite happy to be here and loves the “hot” climate of orange city.

Let us hope that this reverse flow of students and ideas continues and opens our own minds to broader world and makes us accept the global talent more freely.

Regards,
Asang Dani

प्यारे मित्रो,

क्वेस्ट – C प्रोग्रामिंग का हिन्दी संस्करण आपतक पहुचाने का हमारा सपना साकार हुआ है. निश्चय ही वह आपको पसंद आएगा. और जानकारी के लिए निचे दिए लिंक के ऊपर क्लिक करे.

http://quest.ksetindia.com/product_info.php/Product/Quest_C_Programming_In_Hindi

जय हिंद!

प्यारे मित्रो,

  बहोत जल्द क्वेस्ट – C प्रोग्रामिंग का हिन्दी संस्करण आपतक पहुचाने का हमारा सपना साकार होनेवाला है. हमें आशा है की आप उसे उतनाही प्यार देंगे जितना अंग्रेजी क्वेस्ट को दिया.

जय हिंद!

With plethora of educational and professional opportunities in IT sector, confusion prevails in minds of most youngsters when it comes to making a career in this industry. They rarely find someone accessible who can guide them in matters as simple as creating a good resume or choosing what subjects to study. If you want to succeed and make it big in computing and make it a lifelong passion, this course is for you. In this course we have packed all the experience that we have gathered while working with Indian and global IT companies for more than 15 years. For details click here:

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As most of you are aware, the road to a successful career in software starts with a series of Written Technical Tests conducted by most IT companies in India. These companies test your fundamental skills in programming and design in three major areas – C Programming, Data Structures and C++ Programming. Most of you may have prepared for that “dream test” without knowing the exact pattern, the level and the difficulty of questions that appear in such tests. As a result, you are not able to give your best performance in these tests.<br />This “Interview Questions” series addresses these concerns and is aimed at giving you the necessary practice and confidence to help you crack these tests. This series presents a whole gamut on questions on different topics in each of these three subjects—C, DS and C++. For more information, please visit:http://quest.ksetindia.com/product_info.php/Product/Interview_Questions_In_C_Programming 

We went to Japan this May on a trip that spanned 50% of the country. I had done fair bit of reading on Japan – it’s culture, people a little bit of history etc. We landed at Osaka Airport late in the evening. Osaka airport is built on an artificial island. Starting with the queues at the immigration counter, silent nature of Japanese people was in stark contrast with my fellow Indians – no offense meant! Compared to America, one of the best things I felt immediately after getting there was abundance of public transportation – both ground and rail. Roads are as good as they are in the US – better in many cases. Road signs are bi-lingual. So getting lost is not that easy. Fascination of Japanese with machines is remarkable – be it a vending machine, coin-changers, bus station, train station, toilets automation and machines are omnipresent. Density of population is quite high in most metro cities but commute doesn’t take a toll on you as it does in Indian metros or even most American metropolitan areas. Our colleague in Japan told us that most people in Japan believe that there is too must of infrastructure there.

Indians are held in quite high esteem by most Japanese and they feel that if India has achieved what it has without much government support and infrastructure; imagine what they would do if “they” had the right infrastructure. Most of them believe that we Indians are really good at mathematics and science — I won’t say anything about that, otherwise my countrymen will pelt me with stones.

Overall my first impression was that Japan is a very nice country without xenophobia – at least about Indians. They are a country which has achieved a lot but as individuals most people are polite and do not exude the confidence that is so typical of most Indians. Learning Japanese is a key to success in Japan. It’s not easy – but it’s about time that we as a nation thrive on doing things that are not necessarily easy. I think that there is a lot of potential for business between India and Japan, provided we understand each other’s cultures and young Indians seize the opportunities that are available in IT and other sectors in Japan.

Shitsurishimasu (Good Bye)!

There are two steps involved in mastering C#.NET – first imbibe the language elements of C#.NET and then use them to harness the power of .NET technology. Part I is about the Language Elements of C#, whereas Part II is about the Technology Skills of C#.NET. These books will help two categories of readers – those who wish to find out how good C#.NET programmers they are and those who wish to find out how good are the candidates who claim to know C#.NET. These books will help you test your skills in C# language as well as technology areas. They are very helpful for job interviews, vivas, examination etc. You can purchase them online at our KSET Quest Store.

• Test Your C#.NET Skills – Language Elements
• Test Your C#.NET Skills – Technology Skills

Most of us lead a life running about our daily chores with little or no excitement. Same cannot be said about peopl working on creating world’s largest particle accelerator - The Large Hadron Collider being built more than 100 meters underground at border between France and Switzerland. The goal of this effort – which is global in nature is about unravelling the mystery of elusive subatomic particle – Boson with an ultimate aim to unravel the secrets of origin of universe, Grand Unified Theory, and many other unanswered questions about the universe as we know it.

Today there was a article on this in local Marathi newspaper by eminent science writer Dr. Bal Phondke. Wikipedia contains very good information on the same. For all those who have a scientific bent of mind, take a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

The experiments are expected to being in just a few months so stay tuned for more updates!

We are glad to announce the launch of two new Quest courses

- ASP.NET Programming Through C#
- ASP.NET Programming Through VB.NET

Based on pre-orders we can clearly see that these were the most eagerly awaited

Quest titles. We have made every attempt to make it useful for beginners and professionals alike. ASP.NET Programming is Microsoft’s flagship techonlogy that has become immensely popular over last 7-8 years. It exploits the true power of .NET languages – C# and VB.NET and makes it fun to build professional web applications. We are sure you will find these courses useful and enjoyable.

C programming language was instrumental in taking the art of programming to masses. More than 35 years later, Web Services are transforming the way we do programming, in an equally, if not more, dramatic manner. Procedural programming gave rise to Object Oriented Programming. With the spread of TCP/IP networking, Web Services now enable you to build software in truly distributed and reusable manner. In short, they represent libraries on the network. In this journey, we will show you how the web allows companies and individuals as diverse as people on this planet to create software for the coming decades.

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KSET Pvt. Ltd. is proud to annouce Detailed Technical Training eBook for Microsoft Windows CE ( Compact Edition ) 5.0/6.0 – better known as WinCE. WinCE is Microsoft’s flagship embedded and mobile OS. We have created this training material through years of experience and actual WinCE work. This content will address lack of good quality learning material in this important technology area.

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After a long wait, long promised book – Go Embedded! will be available for sale in a bookstore near you. It includes in-depth coverage of following topics:

• Embedded C Programming
• Operations On Bits
• Introduction to Embedded Systems
• Embedded System Boards
• First Embedded System Program
• Blinking LEDs
• EEPROM Programming
• Flash Programming
• Programming With Sensors
• Interrupts & Timers
• Serial Communication
• Serial Communication Using Interrupts
• Building Interactive Embedded Systems
• Working With RTC Using I2C Bus
• Build Process Internals
• Working With Makefiles

Buy it online at http://quest.ksetindia.com/product_info.php/Product/Book_Go_Embedded

Dear Sir/Madam,

Quest Team is proud to announce launch of one more course to it’s Foundations of Computer Science series – Quest – Data Structures Through C++.

It includes in-depth coverage of Data Structures and necessary C++ topics like:

• Linked Lists – Singly, Doubly, Circular
• Queues
• Binary Trees
• Tree Traversal
• Searching
• Sorting
• Graphs
• Depth & Breadth First Search

etc…

We are sure that you will find this course very useful. If you wish, you can order it online at:

http://quest.ksetindia.com/product_info.php?products_id=42

With Warm Regards,
Quest Team

KSET Pvt Ltd is proud to announce launch of two more courses to it’s growing list of titles

• Quest – Java Programming
• Quest – C# Programming

Both these courses include in-depth coverage of Java and .NET platforms with topics like:

- OO Programming
- Interfaces
- Generics/Templates
- Web Services
- Network Programming
- Stream I/O
- Annotations and Attributes
- Using XML etc…

We are sure that you will find these titles useful. If you wish, you can order them online at:

http://quest.ksetindia.com/

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This was announced by Mr. Kiouchi Nakamura Vice President, Innosoft Japan at a glittering ceremony on Sunday. This courseware has been conceived and created by KSET Pvt. Ltd. under the leadership of renowned IT authors from city Mr. Yashavant Kanetkar and Mr. Asang Dani. This courseware is a unique combination of audio, video and PowerPoint presentations delivered through a state of the art content delivery platform developed by KSET. Once installed on the PC, this courseware gives the user a live class-room experience on his home PC.

“Japan is a product centric country, and this unique way of disseminating top quality knowledge would have tremendous appeal in Japan”, said Mr. Andrew Larson, President, Innosoft Japan while addressing the gathering.

They were full of praise for this novel way of reaching the masses with top-quality educational content at a very reasonable cost. In the very first year of its launch the “Quest” products have won accolades in countries like Ireland, United Kingdom, Philippines, Albania, Saudi Arabia, USA and Austria. In India too, Quest courseware is being used by several IT companies for their in-house training requirements. Very shortly, the product is also going to be launched in Germany informed a company source.

The best seller book “Let Us C” by Yashavant Kanetkar which explains C Programming in most simple form which have made all its previous seven editions immensely popular all over the world is now going to be published in Japanese, along with two more titles by the same author. These books don’t assume any programming background. They begin with the basics and steadily build the pace so that reader finds it easy to handle complicated topics towards the end.

During their visit they also announced plans to convert the same content into “ebooks” and “Live Streaming”, which are very popular learning mediums in modern economies of the world.

The function was attended by Mr Manish Jain from BPB Publications New Delhi along with Mr Andrew Larson Vice President Innosoft Tokyo Japan and Mr Kiouchi Nakamura Vice President of Innosoft. The function was attended by large number of IT enthusiasts from the city.

We are happy to announce that after the resounding success of earlier Quest courses we have launched this week the “Embedded Systems Programming” Quest course. As an add-on, those who wish to try the programs in the course on a Embedded Systems board can also use the board that we have created. This hands-on approach will go a long way in spreading the knowledge of Embedded Systems in the student and the software community.

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We have launched a movement called Quest. The goal is simple – Every person should have a right to learn from a subject from a person who has sound credentials and a proven track record in the subject. Time and again we see that though the technology is in place, it is the lack of motivation that prevents even good teachers of the subject to make available their talent and knowledge to others in the field. People have already tried mediums like books, articles, webcasts, podcasts, streaming, CBTs, etc. with varying degrees of scucess. What was missing was a good but simple Content Delivery Platform that can deliver the lectures in a Audio + Video + PowerPoint format, at a reasonable cost with minimum infrastructure requirements and with a guaranteed IP protection for the content creator. With this in mind we have developed the Quest Content Delivery Platform. We have also recorded 60 lectures apiece on C Programming, C++ Programming, VC++ Programming, Data Structues, VB.NET Programming, Embedded Systems Programming. More details of these are available at http://quest.ksetindia.com

We are continuously developing more content on variety of IT subjects like ASP.NET, DirectX Game Programming, C# and Java.

Anybody wanting to participate in this movement are welcome to send a mail.

It was indeed nice to see a crowd of close to 650 persons listening intently to our talk titled “Go Embedded!”. This is in contrast with many colleges where after getting a job in prefinal / final year the learning almost stops and the students are just running through the motions to complete the balance semesters, get a degree and get on with the job. It is often found that the keenness for “learning” is gone in most such cases.

NIT Rourkela experience was quite in contrast with this. The students were very keen to learn and see all the demos on COM, DirectX, Bluetooth and Device Drivers. I am sure, with this “attitude” towards learning many of them will make a mark for themselves in future professional life. Buck up NIT Rourkela, we need more colleges and Institution with your mindset.

We will be there for a seminar at Confluence 2007 on 10th Feb. 2007. See you there.
http://www.nitrconfluence.org/

We will be in Chennai on 27th Jan. to inaugarate our partnership with Ameex Pvt. Ltd. Chennai – our exclusive partner for the state of Tamilnadu.

Chennai event was a great success. It was our first visit to the historic Guindy College known elsewhere as Anna University. The enormous college grounds and campus and list of greats like Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam who have been at this great college easily overcomes you. The event was organized at Vivekananda Auditorium and more than 500 students, teachers and technology enthusiasts were present.

We spoke at NSIT InnoVision 06-07 yesterday afternoon. The event was a mixed bag. We met some good people at NSIT like Dr. M.P.S. Bhatia and Prof. Dhananjay Gadre. Both were quite energetic and enthusiastic about what they were doing. Prof. Gadre was quite blunt in his criticism of Services companies, esp. the leaders in India. In his opinion they are primarily responsible for degradation of science education in this country. There was a gentleman from TCS who countered his views and said that if it wasn’t for these companies there wouldn’t be any jobs for lakhs of young middle class students in this country.

I agree with both these views. In fact the abundance of jobs in present times has definitely led to frivoulous standards of education. However, if it wasn’t for these jobs millions of average students wouldn’t have had high paying jobs that they have today – let alone careers. Although IT revolution of last 15 years have changed the face of the country in short term and brought much needed properity in bigger cities, it’s imperative that unless we raise the standards in our educational institutions – other than just give autonomy, we have serious troubles in medium to long term. Engineers in this country have unfairly smooth roads to tread upon right now. They shouldn’t forget however that unless they raise their standards through lifelong learning the roads will be full of potholes in coming years.

The dates have been announced. It will be launched on 1st November 2006. If you want to get it all from horse’s mouth, the virtual launch will be available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/ce6launch/agenda.mspx#session_1

Do expect that all microsoft marketing and other channels will be full or this and other Windows CE related buzz.

Yashavant Kanetkar and Asang Dani are in the middle of the book titled “Art of Device Driver Programming”. This book would teach a novice how to write Device Drivers for Windows environment. It does not expect any OS or hardware background. However, it does expect you to know C programming. We hope that it will play the same role that “Let Us C” played in building software careers of lacs of students. It will help students / professional to take their understanding / knowledge of device driver to the next level. After all, it makes a whole lot of difference when you are able to move up the value chain.

INAST-4C launch aboard India’s GSLV-F02, failed. It’s a bad feeling for Indians in general and professionals like us in particular. In last 10 years ISRO had a clean slate with all successful launches to it’s credit. However, this is “rocket science” after all and things can and do go wrong. I feel bad for those engineers and scientists whose years of efforts have gone down in a failed mission like this. I hope that India’s press does a bit more than just reporting “307 crores went down the drain”. In such times, I think we should strengthen the spirits and morale of our great team at ISRO.

http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Jul10_2006.htm

This one is really nice XScale 520MHz PXA270 SBC with WinCE 5.0 BSP. Has one USB Host and one function, builtin LCD controller. Manufactured by Applied Data Systems:

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS5947193247.html