Computer Science Education in Egypt - EPIC FAIL

I am at my third year studying computer science at HTI (Higher Technological Institute) and I just have to say it's an Epic Fail, Let's go with the list of the reasons that make me say so:

• The university has no mail server.
• The Interface and Application for courses registration is so lame that it reminds me of windows 3.11.
• The content is so out-dated that we study from books as old as 1997.
• There's no difference between programming courses. OOP is the same as structured programming.
• We use lame compilers cause of the lack of professors' ability to adapt to newer versions and integrate the libraries they need into them.
• A professor telling me that encapsulation in networks is like putting something in a bag and that a packet is smaller than a frame !!!
• Studying from a copied presentation that's so out-dated that the last version of windows is NT in it.
• When Professors consider making a mail server to be an excellent FYP.
• When assistant professors don't remember the course and one of them explains the word "Transformation" as "Transportation"
• A library filled with out-dated books, Lame PCs and slow-ass internet connection is called a Research Facility.
• A professor told me that Networks "Arrived" to the US in 1997.
• An assistant professor can't ping 127.0.0.1
• All the staff have no coding abilities.
• When I am studying Network Operating Systems and I have to memorize features of Windows NT !!
• When I tell the Head of Department that syllabuses need to be changed cause of being out-dated and too n00by and he answers me that they can't do anything "It's the ministry of education's responsibility".
• When a person holding a PHD tells me that IEEE is an abbreviation for (International Electrical Energy Electronics) and his justification for that is that Electrical Engineers work in Energy !!

That's all that I have in mind for the moment but there's much more.


By : Mohammed Attia

Windows Phone 7 goes gold master, begins rolling out to partners for final launch preparations

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If you've been holding yourself back during these early rounds of the smartphone wars in anticipation of Windows Phone 7, your wait just got a tiny bit shorter. Today Microsoft is announcing that its fancy new mobile operating system has been released to manufacturing, making the idea of you holding an actual WP7 device in your hands that much closer to reality. The finished product is now rolling out to partners around the world where it will be getting carrier and manufacturer tweaks and additions, and going through the kind of pre-launch testing you would expect for a release of this scale. If you had any doubt that the Windows Phone 7 onslaught was close at hand, feel free to abandon them now.

Furthermore, the folks on the 7 team have managed to cram a few last minute goodies into the OS, one of which we're particularly excited about. As you probably know from engadget's in-depth preview of an early version of the software, we had a lot of issues with overflowing Facebook contacts in our phone. Microsoft has now solved that problem by enabling a contact filter system which looks for pre-existing matches to your Facebook contacts. If it doesn't find a match, it doesn't pull that contact into your address book (kind of like how Android filters Facebook friends). It's a welcome addition and should make the Facebook / Windows Phone 7 combo a lot more palatable to a lot of people. Furthermore, Microsoft has added functionality into the People Hub which will allow you to "like" someone's posts, and you'll be able to comment directly onto someone's Wall right in the hub. The company has also made tweaks and fixes focusing on feature discoverability (another issue we pointed out in the early look), along with the expected set of polishing and finish you'd expect from a product that's gone gold master. 

 

To check the original post at Engadget: Click Here

Mind Maps

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.

Mind maps were invented by the popular psychology author Tony Buzan, According to Tony Buzan if mind maps are used properly they can increase creativity, productivity, visualization and imagination.

Mind mapping basically revolves around the principle of constructing a basic idea, thought or image and efficiently branching it out to different ideas and perspectives.

The Mind Map Book:

In his book: (The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential) Author Tony Buzan explains the natural architecture of the human brain, Radiant thinking, Brainstorming, How to convert brainstorming into mind mapping and How to use mind maps efficiently.

iMindMap:

iMindMap is a software that eases the process of mind mapping through the use of computers, It is a very easy software that you can master in a very small time, It has an interactive tutorial at the beginning that will guide you through the software so that you can easily make mind maps.
The software also allows you to use mind maps in project management and brainstorming.

In this video Buzan talks about the idea behind mind maps, How the brain responds to them and How to use them efficiently:

Resources:

In the RAR file you'll find:

-The Mind Map Book torrent.
-iMindMap Professional 4.1.2 torrent.
Both torrents are healthy, To download the file: Click Here.

By : Cipher