BENGALURU: In today’s times, language is rarely a barrier, thanks to technology. But within the world that builds technology, there is a curious mismatch--programmers who know new languages are preferred over those that are stuck to legacy ones. And unfortunately, data show that a large percentage of the student population in India has become comfortable coding in the languages of the past.
A survey of coding preferences in India and the United States by recruitment platform HackerRank ..
Electives in engineering colleges are a one-off course, a teaser into a new world that students may pick up if they are interested. Predictably, the interest for the topic remains limited to the duration of that course.
While there is technically nothing wrong in knowing one language over the other, the advantages of knowing the right language are many: better pay, better opportunities, and for India, a better industry-ready workforce.
In United States, Java takes the cake with 25%, closely followed by Python. In comparison, a fifth of the people surveyed lean towards Java in India.
A look at the computer science syllabus of Visvesvaraya Technological University, which governs at least 196 engineers ..
Natural language processing and python do not even make it to the syllabus. In contrast, computer science divisions of IIT Delhi and Bombay show a fair mix of courses that is of use in the real world today.
This links to the larger problem of students not being industry-ready at a time when India cannot get enough of its technologists. Infosys boasts of a massive campus in Mysore. In reality, what it is saying really is, ‘We need a big space to train all the graduates before they are join companies ..
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