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Microsoft India aims to create new opportunities in education: expands 'Partners in Learning' program

In today’s scenario, Internet has become one of the most important part of everyone’s life.

From ordering Air Tickets, Railway Reservation to Paying your Telephone Bill, everything has become so easy just because of the internet. From the comfort of the home you can buy almost everything that you like.

In this blog, Guy Kawasaki writes about 10 (real world) things college students ought to learn. He has raised some very good points that are not taught in school but are extremely important at work.

In point #4 he says:

How to figure out anything on your own. Armed with Google, PDFs of manuals, and self-reliance, force yourself to learn how to figure out just about anything on your own. There are no office hours, no teaching assistants, and study groups in the real world. Actually, the real world is one long, often lonely independent study, so get with it. Here’s a question to test your research prowess. How do you update the calendar in a Motorola Q phone with appointments stored in Now-Up-To-Date? (I’ll send a copy of The Art of the Start to the first person with a good answer.)

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I lived in India for 19 years, and feel fortunate for my wide range of experiences in this blessed land. Born in a business family with a silver spoon, I never had any shortage of resources for learning and growing.

I grew up with the strict discipline enforced by my parents and grandparents and the high standards set by them. I was a class topper all throughout my primary and secondary school, and received tremendous love and support from my teachers and friends.

After my 10th grade, when I went for my diploma in computer engineering to Government Polytechnic, Mumbai, I got to see a very different side of life. I learnt to do hard work with my hands as I learnt things like carpentry, welding, plumbing and smithy along with the basics of technology and engineering.

I recently put my thoughts together in retrospect and carved out this article on "How India can be the most innovative place".

The URL is :
http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/dec/26bspec.htm

Please check it out.

The Innovation Trip that I have created based on the thinking mentioned in the article is here:

http://www.innovationtrip.com

It also includes workshops focused on KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) related innovation.

Over the past 25 years, I have moved on from programming languages like Assembly, Fortran, BASIC, COBOL, C, C++, C# to Java. Bruce mentions that "Java has been an outstanding development language for the industry because it's brought a remarkable unity and attention to important standards where practically none existed before. But like all programming languages, Java will too fade in time."

My Quick Ruby blog records my progress of learning Ruby and later Ruby On Rails.