Today morning I got a call from a student whom I have been mentoring for his academic project. He wants to build a company and is planning to develop a web application for the SMB segment. I had suggested him to develop a free version of the product first with limited capabilities and test the market. The plan was to do it as his final year academic project.
But now it looks like his HOD has some issue with PHP and MySQL. He wont allow projects based on PHP and MySql, he calls it a website and websites are not simple. Poor fellow dont know the difference between a website and a web app.
The most interesting thing here to note is that he is forcing students to do projects in ASP.NET. May be Microsoft is scoring with its IDE, making it look like a worthy enough language to learn and do a project in. FSF guys… are you listening ?
My other posts on academic projects
Well he is professor from 200BC, he must be taught wht a project i all abt well,
ppl when they grow older, they dont like updating them self technologically , especially the professors .. but there are exceptions ..well i guess this specimen is from
as self financing college
Comment by Althaf K Backer — November 25, 2008 @ 10:01 am
Ask him to go throuh http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/IfYouAre
Comment by Santhosh Thottingal — November 25, 2008 @ 10:32 am
Its not the mistake of MS.
.. The professor does not know anything on PHP and MYSQL.
Comment by Shoban — November 25, 2008 @ 11:46 am
Great! wait till the next smart kids feels like doing a Django project..
Comment by Vimal George — November 25, 2008 @ 12:54 pm
This is the case in most universities out there. My univ. IGNOU for instance has a set of languages and backends you can use to do your projects and 95% of them are paid and the rest 5% are outdated.
I have been told that the professors sell the good projects to external teams and make money off it….
Comment by TheAnand — November 25, 2008 @ 6:40 pm
Usually universities are the breeding grounds for free and open source software development……i don’t understand why our colleges are prejudiced?
Comment by Maneesh J — November 25, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
We are thinking of doing the opposite. Allow only web apps for Minor (mini) project. Now I am afraid of Kenney
Comment by VU2SWX — November 25, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
It seems to be a coincidence that I thought about the cheap and unprofessional web designers in kerala, recently.
They’re creating so-called sophisticated web sites on an almost-extinct platform, ASP.NET
Anyone who knows the WEB, knows that it’s PHP+MySQL that rules and will rule.
It’s so pathetic that, a community like ours (kerala), fails to top an exciting field like these.
We’re still stuck with Software Engineering, MBBS and BDS..
*sigh*
Comment by Aravind Jose T. — November 25, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
Hi All,
Read through this link- http://blogs.msdn.com/joestagner/archive/2006/05/01/587567.aspx
Do have patience to read the comments also.
Thanks
Naresh
Comment by Naresh — November 26, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
Something similar happened when i thought of mentoring a person to do Chrome plugin as a research project.
The HOD didnt know what Chrome is and what a plugin education in India is spoiled mostly by incompetent staff. I don’t mean all are bad but very few are good and updated.
Comment by Sathish — December 23, 2008 @ 3:20 pm