Category: Education

Software Engineering Journey: On The Heap

March 7, 2017 admin Education, Reviews, Technology

Conceiving ideas has never been a big deal. Especially in our times, with the advent of computers and the things that have been made possible

Software Engineering Journey: Implementing Methods

March 6, 2017 admin Education, Technology

I reflected on how object-oriented design can be translated to skeleton code in my previous post. I concluded my discourse with the idea that once

Software Engineering Journey: From Design to Skeleton Code

March 6, 2017 admin Education, Science, Technology

I have been delivering lectures on software engineering (SE) for quite some time now. A lot of emphasis in SE is laid on activities such

JUnit Resources

February 15, 2017 admin Education, Reviews

Students can have weird demands. They can ask you to teach them things that you’d never ever heard of before. This time I was asked by a crazy bunch to tell them something about JUnit. So I am gathering some resources here that you might find useful. By the way, JUnit is a Java framework that you can use to unit test your software, primarily written in Java. To this end, you can whether methods of a class or object work as they are supposed to according to the specifications. Here you go with the resources:

Smart Villages

January 27, 2017 admin Consciousness, Education, Technology

“Smart cities” has become a buzz word these days. Plenty of conferences, workshops, and symposia are being held all over the world on this theme.

Easiest Thing in the World

January 18, 2017 admin Consciousness, Education

I meet many people who are bewildered about their future plans. Due to lack of better ideas, they try to sneak into whatever work roles are available, and that can help them fetch some lucre. Although any work should be adopted as a profession, so long as it is legitimate. And so long as a job is legitimate and ethically respectable, it is fine to adopt it. But sometimes I meet well-educated people who are at the brink of giving up on their professions. The reasons for giving up are normally not always a lack of available jobs, or low salaries, personal incompetence. A common and weird reason is that the subject does not find hir (or her) profession thrilling. To my surprise, I have met a handful of people who want to quit computer science and take up something else. They find it too mundane and sometimes too demanding a profession that does not pay off so well at the end of the day too.

Illuminance vs Luminance

January 5, 2017 admin Education, Science, Technology

It is sometimes worthwhile to understand how various metrics related to the measurement of light intensity work. Two of them are illuminance and luminance. They can sound really mundane and fool the subject into believing that both are actually the same thing. However, they are not. As a matter of fact, they are quite different.

Figuring Out Functional Dependencies in Relations

December 23, 2016 admin Education, Science, Technology

A succinct definition of a functional dependency, such as X->Y, is that whenever X assumes a certain value (say x), and for that value of X (x), Y assumes a certain value y, then in every subsequent retrievals of X, whenever X assumes the value x, Y should assume the value y. Thats it! Functional dependency is no more than that. It is a very simple mathematical idea. It is the job of the subsequent normal forms to reduce the dependency of non-key attributes on non-key attributes.