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 13:29 | 9/Dec/2007 |
| Initiative for research and innovation i... | |
| I was a judge for the national IRIS fair this year in Pune. It is a joint initiative between CII, DST (GoI) and Intel, and continuing formany years now. I have been associated with it in one way or other for4-5 years now, but the first time I am going as a judge in the nationalfair. There were about 15 of us in the Judges category covering variouss...
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| 11:42 | 1/Dec/2007 |
| Notion of a Block | |
| This seems to be an appropriate time to introduce anorganisational construct which is integral to today'sprogramming languages - the notion of a block. We willstart with introducing a simple view of a block andexpand it gradually later on.As you may have observed, our programs are getting largerin the sense of number of statements and more complex....
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| 15:03 | 25/Nov/2007 |
| PP: More on Conditionals (incl Switch) | |
| In the previous post, we saw the basic nature of conditionals in programming languages. Some way to handle conditional is essential in any programming language. And most of the languages represent them as some variant of if-then-else. Some languages abbreviate "else if" as "elif", etc as another convenience. Note that these are just decorations, an...
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| 18:55 | 13/Nov/2007 |
| PP: Conditionals | |
| What we saw in the last blog was a simple tax calculator - perhaps too simple to be useful. We made a lot of assumptions to ensure that we can complete the program, with constructs we know. One major assumption was the flat tax rate. Typical tax rate specification would be something like this:Income upto Rs A : no taxIncome over A but less than B: ...
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| 13:59 | 12/Nov/2007 |
| PP: Tax Exercise | |
| So, we can now start writing some useful programs. Let us take some practical application. We want to compute the income tax payable by a salaried employee. For now, let us make some assumptions, so that the world fits in what little we know of programming.For computing tax, we need to compute the total income first. For salaried employees, the cor...
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| 14:16 | 10/Nov/2007 |
| PP: Calculator | |
| The name 'computer' means something that can compute, usually refering to numerical computations. One simple application of this is demonstrated by a normal desk calculator. You can use it to make arithmetic calculations, 30*0.6, (100+3)/4, etc. You can, thus,use it to compute total expense for a project, monthly installment, total saving in a day,...
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| 12:30 | 10/Nov/2007 |
| PP: Hello | |
| From the days of the famous book on C language by Kernighan and Ritchie, it is customary in teaching a programming language to start with a hello to the world. It is also perhaps the simplest program to write, so we will not violate this tradition.To produce some output from your program, you use the notation System.out.println("Hello, world!");Typ...
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| 11:45 | 10/Nov/2007 |
| PP: Building the background | |
| We begin our journey here. We will spend a few minutes getting ready - setting up our rules and norms for the journey, making sure we have the needed resources, and the like.First of all, this is a course on programming. It is like swimming - no amount of reading will make you good at swimming. You need to swim. You may not succeed at first. You ma...
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| 11:39 | 10/Nov/2007 |
| Programming Progressively.... | |
| With this post, I am starting a little journey making an attempt to teach programming. Quite too often, programming is taught from the language point of view - showing the data types, the control structures, the libraries, etc. Here, we will take a different approach - or rather we will try to!I dont know how much my enthu will last for this advent...
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| 10:04 | 17/Oct/2007 |
| e-learning | |
| Teatrix: virtual environment for story creation, R Prada, Machado I, Paiva A. ITS-2000PUPPET: a virtual environment for children to act and direct interactive narratives. Marshall P, Rogers Y, Scaife M. 2nd International workshop on narrative and interactive learning environments, 2002Review of E-learning theories, frameworks and models. T Mayers a...
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| Jayalakshmi ... | 19:16 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (117)
| City: Vishakapatnam
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| Life Without Sports (Is Anyone Listening... |
| Not entirely, perhaps...with the ICC working overtime, life cannot really be without sports. (I am strictly talking about television here, any suggestion of active sport is out.) But with action on the motorsport circuit, in my view, having long ended for the season, the weekends are pretty dreary. There is no hint of scarlet to brighten my Sunday ...
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| Animesh Raj | 11:36 | 12/Dec/2007 |
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| City: Manipal
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| Good Mooooooorning India!!!! |
| Bhagwaan ne do honth diye hain,Sirf bolne ke liye nahi;Agar hasnaa aata hai,To haste kyo nahi?Aajkal zindagi itni udaas kyo hai?Khushiyon ke phool kabhi bikharte kyo nahi? World tour kar ke dil bahlaa to lete hain,Family tour kar ke dil jodte kyo nahi?Speed Dating mein milte to hazaaro dil hain,Par unke taar kabhi judte kyo na...
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| ayesha afri | 16:02 | 13/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (228)
| City: dhaka
| Interests: blog ,book reading
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| why |
| There are no moonlight, no sunlight The earth is so dark… No wind to take breath. There are no flowers No color The earth is colorless There are no bird, no butterfly No song, no color, no light… No love, no humanity The earth is so dark…so… Why life?
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| shefa | 14:12 | 10/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (190)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: dancing in rain.
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| Its too late now |
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| Hi friends.I am not poet like some of you are.But still I thought it will be more convenient for me to express my these thoughts with the help of poem.Its all about todays so called super cool hip moms and unguided,attented,uncared teen daughters. Mom why didn’t you slap me?When I put that black micro mini with body hugging topIs it because You yo...
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| Priya nair | 20:30 | 7/May/2007 |
| Friends: (149)
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| Blinded |
| Kiss – Definition for that I really don’t know… I have even read an article which describes the different ways of kissing – God knows what that is all about??? Well anyway I have always imagined how my first kiss would be. Well no surprise there – I am sure about 99% of you would have done the same. I didn’t have much of reference except for well E...
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| sagar sunkle | 18:25 | 7/Jun/2006 |
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| AI Blog 0006 : Point to ponder regarding... |
| The core point of the cluster of such softwares is DATA.Create softwares that deal with DATA of all types, and possibly present them in some universal language.Allow the customer to interact with the computer in a Natural Language.There are some softwares that help in Startegic Planning, perhaps emitting such rules as what stance the company must ...
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