Hi, --- On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Rony<[email protected]> wrote: | A student is supposed to follow a syllabus and give answers within its | limits. \--
That is where all students have failed, IMO. Just passing an exam, and getting a degree does not make one an engineer. A student is expected to learn more than what is prescribed in the syllabus, to seek out for knowledge by reading, and practising whatever he/she has learnt (if any). The ability of ones' own to gain knowledge through self-study, and solve problems by themselves is an art that is very rare to be seen amongst students, and that is a very important skill expected of an "engineer". --- | When we cannot make the college change its syllabus, why put | pressure on the students to take risks in their exams. \-- You don't have to change the syllabus to do self-study, learn and deliver in F/OSS projects. --- | Anyway it is a | word with different points of view in different environments so lets not | hang him for following his curriculum. \-- Just because others' commit suicide, it doesn't mean we should too. Yes, the media and few others have been misusing the term. There is only one definition. Hacking in the Free Software world has been prevalent for decades. Hacker culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(academia)#Definition How to become a hacker: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
