This is an email sent by a student recently to the LUG (linux users group) of the college.
I'm writing this email to acknowledge how ANDC might actually be the very best option for those choosing to pursue Computer Science in the University of Delhi. When I joined ANDC in 2007, I had a different view about the college than when I completed my course in 2010. I'm actually really glad that we didn't have to actually have a second cut-off for the course, because that means people outside ANDC understand this too. During those three years, where we also attempted to create a small cluster, all of us seem to have learned a little bit more than our peers in other colleges. The best part about our time in college was being given the chance to play around with machines, setting up distributions, having them crash, without being asked any questions. When our college says we have the best computer infrastructure, we should also mention that we're not locking our students out so that are merely users of closed metal boxes. As much as we used to complain about having to attend workshops forcefully, we can't thank Ms. Sunita Narang and Dr. Savithri Singh enough for that push because each of us left those workshops with something that we would have never bothered to even skim through had our limits been bound to just our curriculum. Also having worked with amazing seniors like Sudhang Shankar and equally enthusiastic people like Manpreet and Tarun sir, we got great experience setting up servers and services. In any decent post graduate programme, all that knowledge we gained working on our little weekend projects at college is assumed to have been already acquired - so people from ANDC don't waste time when they are asked to do something on Linux/Mac OS X because they are already so familiar with using the terminal and CLI. ANDC is great, I hope it really is as awesome as I expect it to become.
I'm writing this email to acknowledge how ANDC might actually be the very best option for those choosing to pursue Computer Science in the University of Delhi. When I joined ANDC in 2007, I had a different view about the college than when I completed my course in 2010. I'm actually really glad that we didn't have to actually have a second cut-off for the course, because that means people outside ANDC understand this too. During those three years, where we also attempted to create a small cluster, all of us seem to have learned a little bit more than our peers in other colleges. The best part about our time in college was being given the chance to play around with machines, setting up distributions, having them crash, without being asked any questions. When our college says we have the best computer infrastructure, we should also mention that we're not locking our students out so that are merely users of closed metal boxes. As much as we used to complain about having to attend workshops forcefully, we can't thank Ms. Sunita Narang and Dr. Savithri Singh enough for that push because each of us left those workshops with something that we would have never bothered to even skim through had our limits been bound to just our curriculum. Also having worked with amazing seniors like Sudhang Shankar and equally enthusiastic people like Manpreet and Tarun sir, we got great experience setting up servers and services. In any decent post graduate programme, all that knowledge we gained working on our little weekend projects at college is assumed to have been already acquired - so people from ANDC don't waste time when they are asked to do something on Linux/Mac OS X because they are already so familiar with using the terminal and CLI. ANDC is great, I hope it really is as awesome as I expect it to become.
-Abhishek Nandakumar
