The Department of Computer Applications in association with Industry Interaction and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (IIEDC) organized an interactive session on “Industry Practices on Software Project Delivery” for the MCA students on Wednesday, 8 th August 2018 at 11:00 AM at Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall of the college. The resource person for this session was Mr Hari S, Lead-Education Training and Assessment (ETA), Infosys Trivandrum Development Centre.
The session began with the HOD of MCA, Ms Sumangala N, introducing the resource person and welcoming the gathering. The interaction was being arranged owing to the gap between industry and academia as indicated by Mr Hari S.
During the interaction, Mr Hari S interacted passionately with all the students. As the audience was predominantly from Computer Science background, he emphasized on the need to be good programmers. He raised conces over the students recruited by Infosys during the year 2017-18, who are currently undergoing training at Infosys Global Education Centre, Mysuru. He pointed out that most of the recruits are unable to write code for any scenario posed in front of them. This was quite alarming from the point of view of Infosys as they will have to put extra efforts to train the fresh recruits.
Mr Hari urged all students to take up coding more seriously and try to perfect it. He said that there are no shortcuts to being a good coder and practice is the only way to go forward. He asked all the students to code beyond what is prescribed in the syllabus. He said almost all will be able to write code but it is more important to write good coder. He mentioned a few of the best practices followed in the industry and named some of the open source tools to check the quality of the code. He stressed on the fact that due care must be taken to make sure that all coding standards and conventions are adhered to when writing codes. This makes the code more readable and ensures better understanding, if and when the code has to be reused in future. He mentioned that reusing and scaling is the essence of coding and the coding standards ensure these aspects.
The session came to an end with Mr Hari S taking on a few of the queries posed by the students.
