English in IT

World is transforming into a global village, where English is becoming a de facto standard for every conceivable form of communication. India has more English speaking people than U.K, but students passed out from English medium school mostly lack proper English communication.
A recent incident in Hyderabad, where students demanded for English than telegu, significantly denotes the aspirations of many, especially from the rural areas. What is painful is that English has always been taught as a subject, but never used in actual conversation, thereby annihilating the very purpose of learning a language.
IT companies are concerned of the English usage, everyone from managers to employees has to have good presentation and presentation skills, and sometime corporate trainings are provided to them.
For example, you are giving presentation to the client and your laptop stops working. What you will do then? If you are good at your verbal skill then you can continue the presentation without a hitch, otherwise you have to give an excuse to the problem.
Thus, language is an important role to attract MNCs to outsource their business operations to Indian BPOs and IT companies. Though there are competitors like China which also have a large pool of skilled workers but they don't have enough graduates who have command over English language.

Can we teach others?

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one" - Malcolm Forbes
We can’t teach anything to anybody, but one can only facilitate. A concept is an approach in methodology that would simplify things in a rotten learn-by-root system. It’s a fresh diversion from memorizing to understanding. Children (below 12 years) have good grasping power, which comes out of their own interest to know more the subject.
It’s common that after an age (around 30 years) our mind become rigid and declines to accept new concepts, with age our mind gets filled up with many things.
Increase of technology usage has led to the investment in learning process. Industry feel online training not just adds value to the workplace, it’s crucial for their success. Globalization has increased the competition and size of the market, e-learning has become a more practical and meaningful training option as it has a wider reach. Online training is not only convenient, flexible and time-saving; it’s more cost-effective in the long run. Now, companies feel online training not just adds value to the workplace, its crucial for their success

Hide 'n' Seek

In many cases problem arises when I am asked to design the document, and the product is not fully tested. Unknowingly, I write the bugs as functionality and give a note to it, and when it goes to SME for review they came to know about the fact; then issue is raised to fix the bug. This make me feel good that I am able to pin-point every scenarios of the product behavior. Sometime it becomes necessary to hide internal functionality which user never come across or don’t see. For instance, user get advice according to the test result, if sore is 60% or more user gets next level topics otherwise lower level topics are suggested. But user doesn’t know his/her score percentage, so suggestion feature is described without highlighting the 60% benchmark.

Library Management

Data growth continues to be a challenge for IT and storage administrators. Data is often subject to long-term retention and special storage requirements driven by regulatory compliance, litigation, corporate governance, and operational business needs. In library managing information, books, and documents in a logical sequence, group and order without a knowledge classified system?

The term ‘library’ has itself acquired a secondary meaning: “a collection of useful material for common use,” There is a huge contribution of young students assisting in the Library of Amherst College that revolutionized the library science and the profession of Librarianship by evolving a classification system for organizing information related to various fields and their retrieval in the conventional library.

Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system or number building theory was developed by Melvil Dewey, and first edition was published in 1876, which changed from vocation to the present knowledge management profession. Since then greatly modified and expanded in the course of the 22nd edition, the most recent in 2004, having four volumes. Web Dewey and its online services are under OCLC, an organization serving for spread of knowledge without commercial temptations. It is mainly used in libraries for organizing library materials (books, serials, audiovisual materials, computer files, maps, manuscripts, realia) according to their subject.

DDC is a hierarchical classification system that divides all knowledge into 10 main classes and numbers them 0 to 9 and a decimal at the end of 3rd digit. Hence the system can be neatly summarized in 10 main classes, 100 divisions and 1000 sections. Books are classified principally by subject, with extensions for subject relationships, place, time or type of material, producing classification numbers of not less than three digits but otherwise of indeterminate length with a decimal point before the fourth digit. Books are placed on the shelf in increasing numerical order. The following are main class numbers:

000: Computers, information, and general reference

100: Philosophy and Psychology

200: Religion

300: Social Science

400: Language

500: Science

600: Technology

700: Arts and Recreation

800: Literature

900: History and Geography

When two books have the same subject, they have the same classification number, i.e., 3^rd digit remain same, while 2^nd and 3^rd digit go on changing. It is a common misconception that all books in the DDC are non-fiction.