Fictional Reality? WTF!
Aloha!
[Consider it as a greeting, and techies – don’t confuse it with the congestion control protocols in the data-link MAC sub layer :p]
This is my first post and if you're viewing it, probably the first question you'd think about is why "Fictional Reality"? Why such an oxymoron? Am I conceived by the imagination? Or a Slayer fan, who's damn obsessed about the album 'Divine Intervention' released in 1994? Oh yea, I pretty am!
I remember months back when I was giving the technical interview for TCS, I was asked about various kinds of 'Testing' used in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). I remember giving the MR interview for the same company, I was asked by the HR - "Do you have any questions to ask?", and in real time I said "Yes!". I asked something I had in my mind for years, since the time I joined the college and was introduced to computers. I asked "Tell me what's the crucial difference between software professional and a Computer Science and Engineering graduate, what's the point that there is a need of a phase to differentiate them, what you call as training when all you teach in training is what we've almost studied in our curriculum?" He answered, "You work there with the teamwork, here in college you play with toy projects which have a basic 'code and test' procedure unlike what we do." I was asked if I had some more questions, and I said no, with thanks for clearing the doubt. After the MR, I had to wait for a day for my final HR interview, it went well and I was selected.
It’s the time I'm having my vacations and today I opened a core topic of Software Engineering, "The Software Engineering" itself. :p I downloaded the ILP notes from the TCS website last night and decided to have a look at them to get an answer to what I asked two months back. The way we work at college seriously differs from what happens there. Here, we play with toy projects which have the 'code and test' strategy, while there you work with projects that are extremely complex (I saw some projects TCS completed - like the ones involving RBI, Stock Exchanges, and some BFS' (Banking and Financial Systems)), and I also got an answer to the testing question I was asked months before in an interview where I had no clue. Prototyping was another issue I had no idea about before, and the sequential waterfall model I thought would be the model-of-the-day wasn't the case. RUPM (Rational Unified Process Model) is something that's being used all these days. Anyway! too much of techie stuff, but I found these topics very interesting since they were giving me answers to what I've been asking to myself for years. Good! The very next semester we have this subject as the core subject in our curriculum.
The day went with my date with s/w engineering and by the evening I left for 'Tekri' and returned home late, tired. While returning home I had memories of my trip to Mumbai last week which was a great experience. Life there is good, except for its very crowded. When I woke up in the train at around 5:30 A.M. that day and 'Virar' was the station the train just left, I saw Multis all over, life there seemed so congested.. That kinda gives a feeling - Who am I? What’s my existence in this very mob? And then I remembered I need to choose a metro as the centre in future where I'd work with TCS, and it'd most probably be Mumbai despite all these drawbacks because I'm a little workaholic and Mumbai has enormous work in that very case. Who knows, there still is an year to go!
I guess I've written enough crap for my very first blog.. hehe I should leave or else I'd start discussing the next ILP module I am about to read tomorrow.
C ya!
Harpreet.
[Consider it as a greeting, and techies – don’t confuse it with the congestion control protocols in the data-link MAC sub layer :p]
This is my first post and if you're viewing it, probably the first question you'd think about is why "Fictional Reality"? Why such an oxymoron? Am I conceived by the imagination? Or a Slayer fan, who's damn obsessed about the album 'Divine Intervention' released in 1994? Oh yea, I pretty am!
I remember months back when I was giving the technical interview for TCS, I was asked about various kinds of 'Testing' used in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). I remember giving the MR interview for the same company, I was asked by the HR - "Do you have any questions to ask?", and in real time I said "Yes!". I asked something I had in my mind for years, since the time I joined the college and was introduced to computers. I asked "Tell me what's the crucial difference between software professional and a Computer Science and Engineering graduate, what's the point that there is a need of a phase to differentiate them, what you call as training when all you teach in training is what we've almost studied in our curriculum?" He answered, "You work there with the teamwork, here in college you play with toy projects which have a basic 'code and test' procedure unlike what we do." I was asked if I had some more questions, and I said no, with thanks for clearing the doubt. After the MR, I had to wait for a day for my final HR interview, it went well and I was selected.
It’s the time I'm having my vacations and today I opened a core topic of Software Engineering, "The Software Engineering" itself. :p I downloaded the ILP notes from the TCS website last night and decided to have a look at them to get an answer to what I asked two months back. The way we work at college seriously differs from what happens there. Here, we play with toy projects which have the 'code and test' strategy, while there you work with projects that are extremely complex (I saw some projects TCS completed - like the ones involving RBI, Stock Exchanges, and some BFS' (Banking and Financial Systems)), and I also got an answer to the testing question I was asked months before in an interview where I had no clue. Prototyping was another issue I had no idea about before, and the sequential waterfall model I thought would be the model-of-the-day wasn't the case. RUPM (Rational Unified Process Model) is something that's being used all these days. Anyway! too much of techie stuff, but I found these topics very interesting since they were giving me answers to what I've been asking to myself for years. Good! The very next semester we have this subject as the core subject in our curriculum.
The day went with my date with s/w engineering and by the evening I left for 'Tekri' and returned home late, tired. While returning home I had memories of my trip to Mumbai last week which was a great experience. Life there is good, except for its very crowded. When I woke up in the train at around 5:30 A.M. that day and 'Virar' was the station the train just left, I saw Multis all over, life there seemed so congested.. That kinda gives a feeling - Who am I? What’s my existence in this very mob? And then I remembered I need to choose a metro as the centre in future where I'd work with TCS, and it'd most probably be Mumbai despite all these drawbacks because I'm a little workaholic and Mumbai has enormous work in that very case. Who knows, there still is an year to go!
I guess I've written enough crap for my very first blog.. hehe I should leave or else I'd start discussing the next ILP module I am about to read tomorrow.
C ya!
Harpreet.
posted by codeextracts at 11:02 AM
1 Comments:
Life is an oxymoron, everything about humanity in general is an oxymoron. I look forward to reading more.
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