Initially I did not believe this! Soon You may have to face Interview on rajani++!!! No More Snake Programming/Platforms (Python/Anaconda)!! Get Ready for Superstar Programming!! Read this Interesting Perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

Today I happened to see a github link https://github.com/aadhithya/rajiniPP/wiki/. Initially I did not heed it. However, as I was going through deep, I realized it is true. Yes, you are hearing right. rajani++ is the new programming language released in the market!!

The language has its syntax based on the iconic dialogues of Superstar Rajinikanth. I have downloaded this from Aadhithya Sankar’s (Bavaria, Germany) github page! 

Python programming language is developed by Van Rossum. When he began implementing Python, Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, a BBC comedy series from the 1970s. Van Rossum thought he needed a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious, so he decided to call the language Python (docs.python.org). 

If van Rossum can use inspiration from Monty Python's Flying Circus, why not rajani++!! Probably we may witness amitab++, chiru++..no wonder.

Thought it looks funny and silly, it is not that easy to develop an interpreter. I truly appreciate Aadhithya sankar’s (presuming he is the inventor of this) imagination and hardwork.

This programming language is built on top of python>= 3.8. This interpreter can be installed using pip install rajinipp. All the programs are saved as rpp files like our .py in python or .java in Java or cpp in C++.

To comment, you have to use !!.No More # 

If I have to print Hello World. Here is the program

LAKSHMI START

!! This is a comment and is ignored by the rajinipp interpreter.

DOT "Hello, world!";

MAGIZHCHI

I searched what is the MAGIZHCHI in Tamil. It is called as happiness. Rajanikanth utterance of this word can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENFOQ-Uidrk.

Variables can be created using the following command

AANDAVAN SOLLRAN <variable-name> ARUNACHALAM SEIYARAN <value>; This type of initiation must be inspired through https://tamil.statusdp.com/whatsapp-status-video/dialogues/8291

New values can be assigned to existing variables using the following command:

<variable-name> BHAJJI SAAPDU <new-value>;

LAKSHMI START

!! declare a variable.

AANDAVAN SOLLRAN myvar ARUNACHALAM SEIYARAN 25;

 

!! access variable and print its value.

DOT "myvar = " myvar;

 

!! assign new value to variable.

myvar BHAJJI SAAPDU 100;

DOT "new myvar = " myvar;

MAGIZHCHI

will output the following:

myvar = 25.0

new myvar = 100.0

It got whole lot of arthmeitc operators, logical operations, program flow control, if-else statements, for loop, while loop, break statements, functions, return, and many more!!

Interesting times!! Best Programming Languages to Learn in 2022 are 1. Javascript, 2. Python, 3. Go, 4. Java, 5. Kotlin, 6. PHP, 7.C#, 8. Swift, 9. R, 10. Ruby, 11: C&C++ 12. Matlab, 13. Typescript, 14. Scala,

Wish rajani++ becomes the 15th Language in 2023!! 

All the best Aadhithya Sankar (MSc. Informatics @ TU Munich. https://asankar96.medium.com/)!

Who is writing chiru++ or jrntr++?

Ravi Saripalle

Important Message to all Engineering Students aspiring for Software Jobs/Placements

Attention Engineering/Software Job Aspirants: Please watch this video message. Prepare well and become recession proof campus selection Aspirant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAFuE-S3YL0

Best wishes 

Ravi Saripalle

Do You Need Better English for Best Mathematics? Similarly, Computer Science and Communication!! 20% drop in Maths Performance due to less understanding of words! How does a Metro, City, Town Student perform in Maths?!! Read this interesting perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

Today I received an interesting WhatsApp message (The Print Article on Countingwell App survey) regarding how Mathes performance is linked to English! Poor language comprehension skills (English Paragraph and words understanding) results in a 20 % drop in maths performance from Class 7 onwards. India wide only 28% of them showed good comprehension skills. Interestingly there is no difference between metro vs. town vs city (Tier 1 vs Tier 2 vs Tier 3). There is no difference between male and female. One of the critical reasons is Maths teachers do not lay emphasis on language comprehension. English proficiency is a statistically significant predictor of mathematics scores.

If you dwell deeply, mathematics is a language of science. Mathematics described different situations of day to day life. Mathematics is a universal language such as English. Let me share a simple example on how mathematics performance is linked to English. How many are left? It confuses the student. Similarly, words like sum, whole mathematical words also confuse the student. Often we see mathematics teachers teaching in the local language!! We should encourage mathematics teachers to teach in English and build stories to solve!

All the competitive coding platforms like leetcode, codechef, codeforce, hackerearth, hackerank, etc focus on problems (described in English paragraph) to solve using computer programming. This is the extension of mathematics. The same language vs. maths vs. coding issue comes. It is also proven that a good coder needs good comprehension skills. They should be able to understand the problem well. Now it directs a computer science teacher who needs to be good in communication.

Michael et.al published a wonderful article on The Language of “Rate of Change '' in Mathematics (Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ., 2021). It is mind boggling to know, this simple word “Rate of Change '' is used in multiple contexts differently. Average rate of change is Ratio, Slope, Rise over Run, Quotient! Instantaneous rate of change is derivative, tangent!! Constant rate of change is positive or zero or negative. Varying rate of change is + or 0 or – or increasing or decreasing!! Rate of change in multiple applications like speed, velocity, acceleration, power, kinetic energy and so on!! Now Can a Mathematics teacher omit English when this simple word is described differently in multiple contexts?

Mathes Teacher Must Make & Ease Communication!!

Computer Science Teacher Must Complement and Comprehend Communication!!!

Do You Agree with Better English for Best Mathematics and Best Programming?

skill2030.com is aiming towards goal!!

Ravi Saripalle

 

Is it an End of Great Resignation and welcoming Stagflation or high misery index? Are you Dear to Your Boss? Else, you will end up Dear to your Loss? Read this Interesting Perspective!!

 Dear Friends and Students

On 8^th Mar 2022, I wrote an article (/i2itm.blogspot.com/2022/03/corona-left-economic-damage-prolonged.html) and shared a few thoughts on various job opportunities vs shift options. If you read that article completely, predominantly I was discouraging job shifts for salary growth and high packages! Now check the Economic growth and job situation. They are becoming grim across the world.

Phil Fersht, CEO of HFS Research also echoes a similar sentiment. I strongly believe that it is the beginning of the end of The Great Resignation! However, the worry is all about Stagflation. Stagflation means slower economic growth, relatively high unemployment (economic stagnation), and rising prices (i.e. inflation). Stagflation was first recognized during the 1970s when many developed economies experienced rapid inflation and high unemployment as a result of an oil shock (Investopedia). Now similar sentiments are developing.  The misery index (sum of the inflation rate and unemployment rate) is growing. This is another issue.

Yesterday one of the big e-commerce giants posted a huge quarterly loss after 7 years. Many companies are struggling with demands for working from Home and unprecedented salary hikes even for the underserved. Yesterday Singapore PM warns of a global recession again. War, Covid-19 shutdowns, and commodity shortages are a few reasons for this drop.  Deutsche Bank economists predict "we will get a major recession" beginning in late 2023 or early 2024.

Keeping this view, students need to raise their knowledge bars.

Dear 2^nd and 3^rd Year Students

You are going to be recruited when things become worse. Hence focus on your certifications, internal projects, and internships. These 3 are highly critical to differentiate between best and average! Are you ready with this plan? If not, please do it immediately else you will succumb to this trap!  

Dear 4^th Year Students

You are already working with your employer as an intern. Are you Dear to Your Boss? Else, you will end up Dear to your Loss? Make your employer appreciate your skills and efforts. Don’t ask for Hike! Ask for Mike (your voice should be heard across the organization)! Improve your communication skills. A lot of interns are at the same level in terms of technological skills. Your management and communication skills keep you on top of the ladder.

Are you prepared? If not, let’s build!

Don’t ask for Hike! Ask for Mike

Ravi Saripalle

Quick Commerce! Is it impacting Children’s long-term Behaviour? Quick Food vs Fast Food vs Regular Food! Is Education getting impacted by Impulse purchase vs. Thoughtful Purchase? Read this Interesting Perspective!

Dear Students and Friends

During the summer of 1985, I still remember we were waiting desperately to buy a set of Lepakshi notebooks (11 books tied together). We had to go at 7 AM and wait in a long queue, only to get books by afternoon!! Cream-colored papers, non-smooth texture, sturdy cardboard cover, absorbed ink flowing from the ink pen!! But the joy was amazing!! If we want another book, again we have to depend on old-time bookbinding made using unused papers of previous year's Lepakshi books!!

Thanks to the technological revolution and growing consumerism, the cost of many goods was kept low which allowed more mass production and distribution of consumer goods. It created a large set of jobs and created an economic impact. It has also changed consumer behavior to some extent. It increased users’ expectations. Today, virtually E-commerce ensures any product available at your doorstep regardless of its manufactured location!

In recent times, there is a growing interest in Quick Commerce. Product / Item is delivered in a few minutes, a few hours, same-day delivery, and so on! This is definitely a novel concept. If we are in a medical emergency and if medicines are reached within 15 minutes, definitely it is a great service! However, we need to see the context of the service. If the context of the service is not considered in Quick commerce, it severely impacts the child’s psychology. Already children have been severely impacted by the concept of fast foods. If children demand food in 10-15 minutes, parents are not able to arrange and order it, naturally, children always demand quick food!

20 years back Fast Food evolved to fill the evening snacks! However, today Quick Food is slowly replacing the Main course meal. This transition might impact kids’ behavior. Look at it from the poor delivery boy’s perspective. Their driving style gets impacted only to make customers successful! Having said that, I am not against Quick Commerce. Definitely, it is increasing so many urban jobs! However, let us see from the perspective of children between 5 to 15 years perspective!

Already the educational foundation is getting diluted with the concept of Quick Education (e.g. Question Banks, Model Papers, Question Patterns, etc.). If children expect quick answers or teacher expects quick response or parent expects quick marks or the institution expects quick ranks, total education is collapsed. We should not allow this. Learning is a natural process. It is like farming. Can you expect a crop to grow below 90 days! The kids between 5 and 15 years old are in transit.  It is a make-or-break period. A huge responsibility for all of us to manage this transition subtly and help them reach the shore!

Thoughtful purchase contains the context of buying (e.g. medical emergency, a new set of guests arriving after you cook, vegetable shortage after the cooking process started, etc.). An impulse purchase is devoid of context.  

Let’s buy a thoughtful Purchase but not an Impulse Purchase! Do You?

Ravi Saripalle

 

Nurture or Nature? How to make more verbal participation of Girl students in a classroom (UG Engineering)? Role of Women Faculty, Special Women Sections & Women Colleges! Read this Interesting perspective!

Dear Friends and Students

·         Are you a Girl student studying in an Engineering College?

·        How many times have you responded to your professor’s question in a classroom in the last 1 month?

·         Are you always the first girl to respond to your professor’s question (right or wrong)?

·       Did you observe any of your Girl classmates participating in more verbal conversation after you started the participation?

·           Are you responding more to a female professor over male professor?

Interesting questions right? Yes, these questions help in devising a strategy for closing the participation gender gap in engineering courses! Last month IEEE Transactions on Education published (phys.org) an interesting research on this topic. Without any bias and prejudice, I am trying to present.

Regardless of western or conservative society, student identities are playing an important role on how they speak up in a classroom.  Princeton University Research says, women speak less than men in UG Engineering classes. However it is not true in case the instructor is a woman. The research found that women are much more likely to speak after another woman has spoken in class.

In 2018, University of Cambridge also published a similar article. It found women are two and a half times less likely to ask a question in departmental seminars than men. “This engagement has a domino effect, when a woman asked the first question, there was a 7.6% increase in the proportion of following questions asked by other women.”

If this is true in western classroom settings, I am sure the same or more percentage in Indian classroom settings too. Somebody has to take up this research to corroborate this fact.

Having said that, in spite of this phenomenon in the classroom setting, In contrast, the Indian IT industry is attracting more women than men. In 2011, the women workforce was 21%. Now it has increased to 34%. This year more women received higher packages than men in Campus Selections.

At this stage, I asked the following question to Google. What percentage of engineering students in India are female? It says as follows.

Canada 21.8% (2017), UK 17.57% (2017), USA 19.7% (2016), whereas India stands at 30% (2018). I am sure it might have increased further by 2022. I am not making any conclusion based on these facts but I observe Indian UG Women Engineering students are making a distinctive attempt.

Summary: More Indian girls are showing interest in the STEM courses. More Indian girls are getting selected for IT/ITES Jobs. However, a large proportion of women tend to exit from the industry after the first five years of employment (the print, Feb 2020). I feel there is also less verbal participation of Girl students in a classroom.

How do we solve this issue?  

Dear Teacher, Identify a girl who bells the cat in a classroom setting. She helps other fellow girl students to speak more.

Dear Govt. and Managements, Recruit & identify women faculty who can make the classroom more participative and drive meaningful conversations. Increase and strengthen Women Engineering Colleges.

Nancy Gray, President of Hollins University, Virginia published an interesting article- “Women’s colleges help young women find their voices, learn how to “lean in,” and develop the confidence to push back against the challenges”

While we appreciate and accept the modern culture, we cannot discount and discourage our traditional approach. A fine balance between modern thoughts and our traditional values make Indian girls outshine in STEM education and in engineering work. We are on the way, however there is more to do!

Nurture or Nature? I think both are needed and to be preserved!!

Ravi Saripalle

 

Is the World heading towards de-Globalization? What should be India's priority now? Why should India invest in GUIld and eGyanGana Social Projects Now? Please read this interesting perspective

Dear Students and Friends

Globalization & World Scenario

World War I ended the first era of Globalization! The time lag between World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945) is about 20 years! However World War II proved costly with the usage of nuclear warfare! Countries across the globe realized this cost, the UN established, but small confrontations continued between Nations. Be it Congo war (African nations), Syria, Iraq, Afghan, the contemporary Ukraine and a few others. The cold war continues from 1945 to till date between many Nations.

Curiously I was going through the data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS and checking the Trade share of global GDP in %, which pronounces the economic integration between Nations! Surprisingly, in 1970, it was 25%, 1980 (37%), 1990 (37%), 2000 (50%), 2008 (60.9%), 2020 (51%). It is consistently falling from 2008 to till date. Now after the Ukraine war, there is strong wind for further fall.

What should be India's Focus?

It means, whether we agree or disagree, more and more countries are worried about sovereignty and protecting their human and natural resources. This is the fact. In this hour of situation, what should be the focus of India? Of course, we need to strengthen our security, protect our National resources and increase our intra-consumption and GDP. Beyond this, we need to make a strategic move in building and branding our Human Resources.

Why were our traditional Learning systems strong?

Time immemorial Bharata Khanda has been helping the cause of Global Human Talent development. Now we are more confident and reposing trust on our Learning systems. We may not be able to make Global QS Rankings and Ivy league institutions but our foundation system is strong.

The blend of Science & Mathes, clubbed with a Middle class culture, backed by great family traditions and spiritual upbringing is proving to produce a matured talent. Our students are good at managing limited resources and produce optimal products. Probably we may not be able to produce great inventions and Noble laureates, but we are definitely good in making innovations and managing global talent. Today we are able to witness the same with Global CEOs of Indian origin and their mature way of handling global companies.

What is the Hurdle Now?

However, there is a catch here. The Indian schooling system till date was based on Guru-Shiksha Parampara (erstwhile in Gurukulas), later in modern schools through Traditional classroom or Home Tuitions or evening Tutorials. But today, Home tuitions are replaced with Digital Learning Tools. Guru is replaced with Technology. Learning Record is in the hands of Technology. 

Today an average student is attending multiple physical schools and multiple online learning courses, sometimes he/she changes the platform for each concept. As a result, there is no consolidation of digital learning records. There is no digital learning traceability. There is no digital learning footprint. We are losing our original trademark of great learning models. However, we cannot replace and go back to old models. That is also not possible.

This change looks simple today, appearing trivial, but in 10 years’ time, this learning process becomes chaotic with the fragmented learning records, scattered across multiple digital learning islands (kindergarten to primary school to secondary to University to online courses to online knowledge repositories). How does it impact. It leads to weak Recommender systems for students. Results into weak or fragile mentoring.  Leads to fragile skill investment strategy for Govts. Finally employment suffers and GDP impacts.

Earlier home tuition master /school teacher or someone like a family education mentor used to drive the individual in multiple dimensions and was managing User’s learning records / learning styles and making customizations, recommendations etc.

Proposal to Govt., Intellectuals, and Visionary of India

We need technology to solve this simple issue before it explodes and goes out of control. We are appealing to the Govt. of India, Corporates, Heads of Institutions, EduTech companies and Digital Universities and Schools.

Dr. Abhinav Dayal (linkedin.com/in/abhinavdayal), Self (Dr. Ravi Saripalle (linkedin.com/in/ravisaripalle)) and a few other like minded people formed Volunteering Group and developed a technology roadmap and architecture to solve this cold but burning Learning Issue.

What is GUIld and eGyanGanga?

We proposed a concept called GULid (Global Unique Learner ID, similar to Aadhar for Digital Learning Record) to track every individual digital learning transaction from KG to PG and beyond till he/she learns online. We also proposed eGyanGanga, a Unified, Multi-Lingual, Open Knowledge & Learning Platform, seamlessly integrates the world of all online Learning platforms with GULid inbuilt (aggregator of user profile), and also provides a basic LMS for free and fair use for one who cannot afford digital learning.

We submitted proposals to the Hon'ble Prime Minister, Dept. of Science and Technology, and various Corporates to consider and support this social cause. This is going to be revolutionary in the digital learning space. We want to make it as open source, not for profit and free to use so that 1.3 billion learner's digital learning can be tracked, consolidated, right investments made based on recommendations, project them internationally and become a Global Talent Hub and Global Human Resources Pool.

Let's Rise Together! Please save our next generation digital Learning records. Please help us and volunteer! Let us together build these social learning platforms for Universal Learning cause!

 

Ravi Saripalle

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