DASA NIT IMPORTANT NEWS!!!!!

agg999
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:49:18 +0000

@peepingtom Well how about all the IIT people and NIT people who aspire to work for Microsoft, Google? I am sure that IITians don’t own such big companies? No one cares of only academics in the real world that is thing. You need creativity and ability to apply things to be successful in life. Who cares if the curriculum is rigorous when you are not going to use it in the future. In USA, through software and research internships EVERY YEAR the student is prepared to excel when out of college. I bet you can’t find those opportunities at NIT (not even 4th year students probably). Not saying IITs and NITs are bad schools though - remember that.

Plus do you know in U.S. high schools students are already taught programming languages if interested in CS. We are free here. We, CS majors, don’t have to torture ourselves with physics and chemistry and all that - it is simply useless. Believe it or not, I am 12th grader and I am proficient at Java, C, C++ and other web languages. In NIT (I saw the syllabus) they teach object oriented programming second year. That is hilarious, because most american high school students who want to major in CS know all of that and are going to have big advantage in the software side; plus with the communicational skills they are going make any of those Indian people eat dust as well (sorry, I am really upset after reading your post). In fact, I am ready to get a Oracle certificaltion in Java this summer. Can Indian education teach that? Do students there have the freedom to choose those courses. Simple answer: NO!

You can say whatever you want, but you can’t say Indian studies are better than American. Just because Indian curriculum is more rigorous doesn’t mean it is better. Just be honest. Even IIT-B doesn’t crack the top 40 in computer science let alone overall rankings. Just because you prepare for an IIT test for 6-7 years doesn’t make you the best. There are other things that are more important than just wicked smartness.