From Source to Software

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From Source to Software

• Narrowing the gap between you and the Industry

Presented by Shilp Gupta ABV-IIITM, Gwalior
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But First

• Let us grab a statistic
• How many of you have Computer Science as a
  Subject?
• Does IT interest you?
• Would you do it make a living?
• Software Engineering offers the most lucrative
  placements in the form of bulk as well as
  compensation!

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Coding

• Coding, the line-by-line development of precise
  instructions for the machine to execute, is and
  will always be the core activity of software
  development.
• Its called Software Penmanship
• Those who can Code!

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Back to the School Part 1

• CS Myths
• Programming is tough
• BASIC QBASIC or GWBASIC
• C Turbo C
• Java Sun One/Blue J
• All are myths nevertheless
• It is up to your college education to teach you
  to program Right?

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Back to the School Part X

• Computer programming is tremendous fun. Like
  music, it is a skill that derives from an unknown
  blend of innate talent and constant practice.
• Like drawing, it can be shaped to a variety of
  ends commercial, artistic, and pure
  entertainment.
• Truth is, students your age are already well
  known programmers!

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For those who shall Program

• Code IT
• Compile IT
• Link IT
• Deploy IT
• IT is what we call an Algorithm, a Heuristic or
  plain Logic.
• Everything is a Program

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My name Is Neo!

• The industry calls them software everybodys
  heard of software we say we build software
  what is it that makes a program, Software?
• When a program does 500 functions simultaneously,
  it is called a software
• When a program is 100000 lines of code, it is
  called a software

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Enter the Matrix

• Write a software to manage all tasks in your
  school
• Build a website to make the schools presence
  felt on the net
• Windows is 4 million lines of code written in
  C/C
• Try writing a software with source-code spread
  across 5 files, now, imagine 50 people doing this
  collaboratively

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Coupling and Cohesion

• Cohesion defines the completeness of the task
  that a program has to perform
• Coupling defines the amount of inter-related all
  programs in your software are
• The paradigm is shifting from high cohesion, low
  coupling software to low cohesion, high coupling
  systems

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OOPS!! The fact in the fad

• Object Oriented Programming may sound like the
  biggest fad to young enthusiasts in programming
• But,
• IT has brought down software costs
• IT has brought down software construction costs
• IT has made vast amount of software tractable

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Software Engineering
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IT is rising

• Factors,
• Computers are becoming cheap
• Software costs are sliding
• The plethora of knowledge available to be learned
  is humongous
• We are Knowledge workers in the Knowledge economy
• Information Technology is here to stay

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Software Industry

• Programmer/Developer
• Teams
• Designer
• Project
• Company
• Industry

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Shock and Awe

• Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games
  have millions of people world wide engaged
  simultaneously
• Prices of software range from a few hundreds to
  hundreds of crores
• But, isnt it all supposedly Fun?

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The Cathedral and The Bazaar

• Now,
• Would you be a computer programmer?
• Would you rather be a software architect?
• Would you do this for free?
• A software is neither a product, nor a service,
  it is a bundle of knowledge

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Thank You

• Remember,
• Writing code remains the single most productive
  activity in software development
• The world of computer software is constantly
  changing, in trends of technology, in idioms and
  methodologies
• Coming years will teach you great many things,
  but the learning starts now