Go Embedded!

This Sunday Shashi Tharoor wrote in Times on The Elephant who became a tiger. I haven’t read anyone write on India’s changed image in the way he has explored. Fantastic treat for everyone:

http://timesofindia…/SUNDAY_SPECIALS/…/SHASHI_ON_SUNDAY

It’s a common misconception that only those with electronics background can learn embedded systems. Although sutdents with electronics background do have some advantages – learning embedded systems meaningfully requires good knowledge of electronics, computer architecture, operating systems and sound programming skills. Naturally no one is born with these skills and most colleges in India today don’t impart such skills as a part of single course. Like most other things in computing one can aquire this knowledge if he/she is willing to work hard for it.

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.

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

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/