Software Alley
I have completed my computer engineering and I like to do a bit of programming when I can. My personal favorite Operating System is Windows 95, but that's probably because I haven't been too exposed to other systems. My college had a decrepit version of Unix, which would go down every now and then, with a core dump. I do like Linux, I installed it for a while on my home PC, and it was rather good.
My college project was a Statistical Analyzer for MPEG-2 Video Bitstreams. This was developed for Windows 95 using Visual C++ for
Arcus Technology Ltd. They are an Indo-US ASIC design house. Kavitha B.V. and I worked on this application, which includes a comprehensive MPEG-2 Video Player and powerful statistical Analysis facilities.Earlier, we developed a library management system using Oracle. This was rather comprehensive, and included a powerful inventory control system.
I like the C/C++ programming language. I am also learning Java, about which it is my personal opinion (probably heretical) that Java will eventually merge with C++, or that the two will become so alike that it will be hard to distinguish between them. I am not convinced of the advantages of an interpreted language, and the fluid nature of the standards situation make one feel that it might be advisable to wait a bit before taking the plunge into Java.
I studied ADA during my course, and I like the features of this language. If anyone knows where one can get a freeware compiler for Ada please contact me. Here is a nice
tutorial on Ada.One finds tons of great software across the net. Perhaps the best resource for downloads is
download.com. You can be sure of finding useful material there, no matter what your needs. There are of course, other fabulous repositories of software everywhere.In my country, India, there is only one ISP (as of now-August 1997) and that is a government run company. They offer two types of accounts - a TCP/IP and a restricted shell account. The price ratio between the two is 3:1!. To help the lowly shell-folk (myself included), two chaps from Kerala have developed a great Winsock emulator/spoofer which allows one to use Browsers like Netscape, IE, etc. on a shell connection. You can check it out
here or at their webpage.There is this useful webring you can join if you are a software developer from India - the download.com of software engineers today. This is called the Indian Software Gurus webring. You can find links to this webring on my main page or at the bottom of this page.
I am currently practicing my programming skills by writing small software programs for different applications. Here is the first of them, a minor
stack example, which can be used to see the working of that simple and ubiquitous data structure, the stack.I shall add more to this page often. Please explore the rest of my site and tell me what you feel.
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