[Ilugc] [OT] self taught programmers vs programmers with degrees
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Mon Jun 30 11:23:02 2008
On 30-Jun-08, at 10:30 AM, Mano wrote:
thats inspiring.. :-)
Jeyakesavan Veerasamy, a big name in CS research now, was from a tamil
medium school. During the first few months in college he was always
found with a speak english in 30 days kind of book - without a care to
the fun the rest of us were making of him! By the second semester he
had shut us all up by writing an anti-virus software that became the
de facto standard in AU and IIT campus.
the biggest hindrance to Tamil medium students is that they are
afraid of people making fun of them for trying to learn english. An
atmosphere created by politicians who keep insisting that Tamil be
medium of instruction (while making sure that their children/
grandchildren study in english medium). And secondly they dont take
the effort. I have been accused of being anti-tamil because I
severely criticise most tamil translations I see. But the reason why
I criticise them is that the translations are careless - I don't see
tamil-english or english-tamil dictionaries on their tables. In order
to learn a language, you need both way dictionaries as well as a
thesaurus. When I was learning tamil I used to sit with a dictionary
and a book - my progress used to be maybe one page an hour at the
beginning. It is also necessary to learn by heart the meanings and
keep practicing. I don't see any of this effort among the 'talented'
people who are not being given the opportunity to succeed.
I still get furious every time I see 'free software' translated as
'kattatra menporul'. Re-translate 'kattatra menporul' into english
and see what you get. Or translating copyright as 'kaapurimai'. And
the various ways the word 'license' is translated.
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regards
kg
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