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Guess today’s turnout of workshop? Its was just seventeen (17) excluding me, Ankur and Anomit. Now the question crops up- “Why so less”? I asked some of the people who attended the workshop itself. The answer which i got was something which I had always thought of. They said that many of the people havnt programmed earlier and don’t ever have used any programming language in their life. Since they are doing it for the first time, they are bound the face problems. Those who were sincerely attending the workshop had previous knowledge of C/C++ programming.

One more shocking observation was that all of the attendees understood SQL and DBMS very easily. I had expected these topics to be completely greek to them since its a new thing. I had even told them in the beginning that since its a bit different thing, pay attention and ask questions if you have. SQL is not a procedural language and DBMS concepts are something new to all.

Well, something new from hostel! I installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 Beta 4 version on my system making my system triple boot ( It was also earlier). The looks and feel of this new version is very promising and surely its gonna pick up very soon. Here I attach below a snapshot.

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So just returned from Day 3 of the Web Design and Development Workshop. Today we started with the core PHP language constructs. The syntax of PHP matches very much with C/C++ and students should not have problems understanding this very simple but exhaustive, beautiful language. Yesterday I taught them about Interpreters and Compilers, the basic difference between them and their implementation, the server-client model and lots of other stuff.

Teaching using chalk and duster on the board is something very traditional and today I felt it. I switched off the projector and took the chalk to teach them about the language constructs, well what to teach? It matches C++

Ankur got some pics from his mobile camera, where you can see me explaining on the board and in the last pic sitting comfortably and giving lectures ( inspired by our OS teacher)

For the last 3-4 days lots of developments are going on in the Cricket world which will surely make cricket fans unhappy. The old and useless umpire Steve Bucknor made uncountable mistakes in the second test of Australia. All of these went against India while the BCCI was sleeping tightly while the players were being meted out with this treatment. The team management decided that they would not complain against the umpires to pacify the matter. Injustice didnt stop here, Symonds complained Harbhajan Singh of racial accuse and while there was not evidence, he was banned for three tests.

Now when BCCI woke up from the deep slumber, ICC bowed and sacked the partial umpire from the third test.Harbhajan ban has been temporarily lifted, not revoked. I still dont believe that partial ICC who always tortures the Asians and sets free players from other countries. After all its chief is Malcolm Speed is also from Australia, a country known to be king of sledging.

And on the other part. The blog which I mentioned in the last post, got even more hits yesterday, which hit a double-century. Here are some of the snaps of the blog stats.