Cnn Next Report on Best Software Engineer Professionals, Broadband, Mathematics

         I just watched a story on CNN's next program about the top software Engineer Professionals. Not before had the story begun I had guessed that the results will reveal about the dismal performance of the Indian software engineers in this show. The reason is I have observed in my software career the India despite of having one of the best high school students in the world fail to turn them into the best engineers or scientists. Wonderful kids turning out to be mediocre engineers and science student. 

        

                The primary reason is not paying enough attention for the quality of education in higher institutes. Even in institutes like IITs most of the faculty is substandard compared to other countries. Hardly anyone of these faculty members have any original work to their credit. Thanks to the JEE application procedure that it brings together the most informed kids in a platform to excell and bring laurels to thier institute. India seriously needs to invest heavily in bringing the broadband access to its masses at the affordable rate. They should realized that the spinoffs it generate will be so much more beneficial to the masses. Infact it should be subsidized.

 

          Time and again I have seen the industries underestimating the potentinal of people reinventing themselves. The cellular phone in early 1995 wasn't expected to make an impact in India and look how it changed the economics of India. My mom could type SMS on her cellphone more rapidly I could read.  Coming back to the original thought, will the quality of software enginners will improve dramatically in India. Ofcourse the quantity is going to swell but with easy job prospects and hardly any mathematics after class 12. (Its a true fact and India needs to invest heavily in study of mathematics at all level).

          

                Mathematical thinking helps one in not doing mathematics. Its one of the most interesting subject. If a knowledgeable teacher teaches it, it becomes so much easy. As one begins to see patterns it becomes so much interesting. Mathematics satiates the inherent curosity in us and its funny that this subject is so omnipresent in every field. Treating it just as a topic for mathematician is a big tragedy. In India if one is studying mathematics it mean that person is going to be just a school teacher with a low paying job, however learning how to just code can land you a high paying software job, it should be realized that one becomes a lot better coder with a sound mathematical foundation. Otherwise just coding is a no big deal. So what happens in Indian universities are these bright students learn only to code with a mathematics level of 12th grade and so if they don't make a dent in the international competitions they should realize where the problem  is !!