Go Embedded!

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 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.

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.

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

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/

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

http://quest.ksetindia.com/product_info.php/Product/Quest_CS_.NET_Programming

This was a seminar on Pointers and C. Karad is picturesque town surrounded by Sahyadri mountain ranges on the western coast on Maharashtra. We reached there in the afternoon after a 3 hour road journey from Pune. The road is part of ambitious GQ (Golden Quadrilateral) project and highway is NH-4. Tunnels and other engineering marvels make you feel that we are surely going to benefit a lot when infrastructure is made available.

At the venue, two projectors, two microphones etc. were arranged for. Close to 400-500 students were patiently waiting for the seminar in an orderly manner. This is something we have noticed over last couple of years. Students in smaller towns are more hungry for knowledge than their counterparts in larger cities. Despite all odds like loss of power to laptop, electric shock in audio system, we were able to carry on. Again – students were very patient and understanding. Post seminar, everyone was energized enough to create a stampede of sorts for meeting with us.

We told the students what we have been always saying wherever we go – rise beyond the realm of languages and get your hands dirty with technology while you are in college. If we have to continue to lead in the IT sector as a nation, absorbing advanced technologies early in your career is the key. During college years, team spirit and freedom to try new things would certainly spawn entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

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.

Myself and Yashvant will be there at Seattle for Global MVP Summit 2007 for about weeks time.

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/MVPsummit

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/

The event was organized at CIT, Coimbatore. It’s a really nice city with warm welcoming people and we were glad to see a sizeable crowd on a cloudy Sunday morning. It is indeed heartening to see that students of today are not interested merely in jobs but want to create a marks for themselves. We think that’s what Quest is about.

Happy Learning!

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 will be at Innovision event at NSIT (Netaji Subhas Intitute of Technology), Delhi for a lecture on 14th October. More information at:
http://www.innvi.com/

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

The event was held at Targore Auditorium in Osmania University. It was nice to see hundreds of students throng the hallways to hear about latest in C/C++ and embedded systems. The demos were very well received and DirectX based games and Bluetooth based remote keyboard were seen to have stirred those present. It is our sincere hope that students grab the opportunities and make most of it by learning new things and building products of tomorrow. That completes our tour for VS Express Editions in 2005. We want to thank the student community across the country, especially Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore for their love and support.

Yashavant Kanetkar and Asang Dani would be in Delhi to speak at MS Academic days at Delhi University on 28 Jan, 2006.

http://www.microsoft.com/india/academicdays/

The venue is:

Conference Center
Opposite Department of Botany, Delhi University

Update:

We reached the venue about 1 hour late. Thanks to Delhi traffic which two hours to reach DU North Campus from Dwaraka. On getting there, Pratibha was speaking about .Net Technologies and how it’s really use it with various Visual Studio Express Editions. The hall was jam packed – 500+ attendance. When I and Yashvant got on the stage, it was 3:45 p.m. The crowd was very receptive and our presentation was very well received by faculty and students alike. The event was also endorsed by CSI (Computer Society of India), Delhi Chapter. Next one is in Chennai at Anna University.

Yashavant and Asang will be in Delhi to speak at NSIT’s INNOVISION 2006. The event is at 10:30 a.m. on January 28, 2006. Event website is:

http://www.innvi.com/

Yashavant and Asang were in Pune to speak about Next Generation Computing at Indira Institute.

http://www.indiraedu.com/public/groupPages/default.asp

The event was very well received and all those present were stunned by the live demonstrations and presentations made.

We were greeted with students at JNTU with great enthusiasm. There were more than 800 participants at the venue. The auditorium could hold only 200! Finally more than 300 people were permitted in the hall. Of them many sitting on the floor not a place to be found. The event was very well received with live demonstrations that thrilled those who attended and letting them know what they could do. Organizers promised the participants that they will get us to their campus once again in near future. Thanks to all the students at JNTU for their love and affection.

This is first of its kind event Mobile and Embedded Systems event in Central India. It woul highlight Importance of embedded systems, .Net Compact Framework and SmartPhone programming along with WinCE 5.0.Today, we are being driven by revolution in Embedded Technology. It has created and impact in every facet of modern life: Cell phones, answering machines, microwave ovens, televisions, DVD players etc. Even PCs contain several embedded systems. Tremendous growth in embedded computing has given rise to demand for professionals with experience in designing and implementing embedded systems. After all, someone has to create hardware and write software for the Embedded Devices. The International market on a whole expects a product development in Embedded Systems to the tune of U.S. $75 billion and a requirement of around 150000 trained professionals by 2006. However, there is lot of confusion about what embedded systems are and how to learn about them. Traditional Universities don’t team courses in Embedded Systems and textbooks don’t deal with this in a manner that is understood by students.
Speakers at the event include Mr. Abhishek Kant, Community Program Manager, Microsoft India, Mr. Yashavant Kanetkar and Mr. Asang Dani from Kanetkar School of Embedded Technology. This seminar will contain live demonstrations containing real, functional embedded systems and show how next generation computing devices are built. You will clearly see how you may fit in the puzzle and what your career opportunities in this area are.
Registration for this event is free. It has limited seats to be taken on first come first served basis.

For Registrations, rush to:

Kanetkar School of Embedded Technology or KICIT at:
44A Hill Road Gokulpeth
Nagpur, 440010
Tel: 0712-2545322, 2531046