Foundations of career in software : An overview

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Foundation of Career in
Software
An Overview
27th January, 2011
Presented By
Satin Katiyar
satin@Kratin.co.in

Presentation for

Let’s Discuss
Pre-School
& School
Higher
Secondary
College/School
Engineering
College
Further Studies/
First Job
What after 10
Years ?
Future
• What is the change we are looking at ?
• What are Foundations for this future?
• What steps we can take now to make it
better ?

Academic to Industry
Academic Institute
From Role of Consumer
• Consuming Services
• Paying Fees
Software Industry
To Role of Producer
• Providing Services
• Earning Money

Software Industry

Some Software Streams
E-Commerce, Internet Technologies
DBA, Datawarehousing
Embedded/EDA/VLSI/ASIC/Chip design
ERP, CRM
Mainframe
Middleware
Mobile
Network Administration and Security
Application Programming/Maintenance
QA & Testing

Zoom-in Software Development
• Roles in Software Development
– Developer/Programmer
– Tester
– Architect
– Project Manager
– UX designer
– Requirement Analyst
– Domain Expert
– Product Manager
– Database Administrator

Where's the gate for this world ?
3 Step Selection Process
1. Send Resume
2. Company will Evaluate , Select
3. That’s it “Welcome to IT world”
“Top five IT companies to hire 1.8 lakh persons in 12 months, says
Infosys” – Article on 24th January 2011

Assessing Candidate
Aptitude
Technical Skills
Communication
Skills
Values
Goals
Career
Orientation

Your Career
• Your career is your responsibility
• Its future starts with a plan
• Difference between jobs that fit you vs. jobs
with potential
• Move at the speed of business but don’t miss
your train
• Don’t wait, make it happen

Foundation Skills

LET’S PLAY DUMB SHERAD

Ek tha Raja… Ek thi Rani…
Dono mar gaye khatam kahani.

Skills For Software Development
Programming
Languages
Data
Structures
Algorithms
Platform
Fundamentals
Software
Engineering
Principles

Programming Languages
• Type of Languages
– Procedural
– Object Oriented
– Scripting
• Keywords
• Data Types
• Operators
• Expressions (Conditional, Loop)
• Library Functions

Data Structures
List
Queue
Stack
Tree
Set
Map

“All men are mortal, Socrates is
man, therefore Socrates is a mortal.”
-Aristotle
If A ⇒ B is valid and B ⇒ C is
valid, then A ⇒ C is valid.
Transitivity of implications

Skills for Software Testing
Analytical
Skills
Observation
Skill
Programming
Software
Engineering
Principles

When things do not go as
expected…
Selected Major Disasters because of
Software Bug

Mariner Bugs Out (1962)
• Cost
– $18,500,000
• Disaster
– Mariner 1 rocket with a space probe
headed for Venus diverted from its
intended flight
– Mission Control destroyed the rocket
293 seconds after liftoff
• Cause
– A programmer incorrectly transcribed
a formula into software
– The software interpreted normal
variations of velocity as anomalies
– It issued faulty correction commands
that sent the rocket off course

Hartford Coliseum Collapse (1978)
• Cost
– $90,000,000
• Disaster
– Steel-latticed roof collapsed
under the weight of wet snow
• Cause
– CAD software was used to design
the coliseum
– A programmer incorrectly
assumed the steel roof supports
would only face pure
compression
– One of the supports unexpectedly
buckled from the snow
– This set off a chain reaction

Patriot Fails (1991)
• Cost
– 28 soldiers dead
– 100 soldiers injured
• Disaster
– During the first Gulf War, a Patriot
Missile system in Saudi Arabia failed to
intercept an incoming Iraqi Scud missile
– The missile destroyed a U.S. Army
barracks
• Cause
– A software rounding error incorrectly
calculated the time
– This caused the Patriot system to react
too late to the incoming Scud missile

Mars Climate Crasher (1998)
• Cost
– $125 million
• Disaster
– After a 286-day journey from Earth, the
Mars Climate Orbiter fired its engines
to push into orbit around Mars.
– The engines fired, but the spacecraft
fell too far into the planet’s
atmosphere, likely causing it to crash
on Mars.
• Cause
– The software that controlled the
Orbiter thrusters used imperial units
(pounds of force), rather than metric
units (Newtons) as specified by NASA.

•C Language
•Computer Architecture
And Organization
•Data Processing And File
Organization
•Theoretical Foundations Of
Computer Science
•Internet Technologies
•Business Data Processing
•Algorithm And Data
Structure
•Computer Workshop s
Academics in Skills Development
Mathematics
•Applied Mathematics
•Mathematics III
•Combinatorial Theories
•Discrete Mathematics
And Graph Theory
•Theory Of Computation
Language, Programming
Fundamentals
Electronics and Electrical
•Digital Circuits &
Fundamental Of
Microprocessor
•Electromagnetic Fields
•Digital Circuits
•Basic Electrical Machines
•Electronics Engineering
Material & Components
•Electronic Devices And
Circuits
•Electronics Measurements
•Network Theory
•Electrical Sciences
•Digital Electronics And
Design
•Communication Electronics
Management
•Principles Of
Management
•Managerial Economics
And Accountancy

Emerging Technology Disciplines

Some Emerging Technology Disciplines
Computer Vision
Graphics &
Data Visualization
GIS &
LBS
Machine Learning
& Data Mining
Security & PrivacyCognitive Science
Computational &
Semantic Analysis
Mobile, Embedded
& Sensors

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