Education

print "Hello World!" These days I was busy with college work and exams. I learnt Python some months back, and found it very interesting to work with. My sources of learning Python were Head First Python (O’Reilly) and Beginning Python (Wiley Publishing), plus some online tutorials. While my first and favourite source was Python exercises on CodeAcademy. Hence, afterwards I made an exercise on that website for playing Rock Paper Scissors. You know that the coding of such program is too easy, but the backside validation for the user inputs was much tricky. Willing to make some more exercises at an advanced level. ...

Back here, writing after a long time! Let me point down some of the major incidents during that time – Attended the High Performance Computing workshop by CDAC-ACTS The workshop on High Performance Computing was really a nice arrangement by CDAC for the students to learn and be familiar with the parallel processing. They offered the supercomputer access to perform the OpenMP and MPI programs, along with nice practical teaching from the HPC experts. ...

Yes, moved to Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad last week. Got admitted for the M.Tech. course at Gujarat Technological University, for specialization in IT Systems and Network Security. Instead of the conventional Computer Engineering Masters, I chose the special course for my passion, computer networks and security. Even the subjects are interesting, like Distributed and Cloud Computing, Grid Computing and Network Defense and Countermeasures. I am very excited to study these subjects. Last week passed with basics of Operating Systems and Object Oriented Designing. The institute uses OpenSuse 12.0 as their primary OS for the Labs. Object Oriented lectures were a revision of the fundamental concepts, as I am familiar with them because of the subjects like Object Oriented Concepts and Advanced Java Technology during my Bachelors. All the faculties are from CDAC-ACTS centers, veteran and expert in their fields. I am liking the environment and work culture at this college which needs full dedication, though it is somewhat strict. ...

What is HDLC? HDLC stands for High-Level Data Link Control protocol. Like the two other WAN protocols mentioned in this article, HDLC is a Layer 2 protocol. HDLC is a simple protocol used to connect point to point serial devices. For example, you have point to point leased line connecting two locations, in two different cities. HDLC would be the protocol with the least amount of configuration required to connect these two locations. HDLC would be running over the WAN, between the two locations. Each router would be de-encapsulating HDLC and turning dropping it off on the LAN. ...