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Yupi, got my BCS Certificate in IT

By | February 6, 2009

hurray! Good news, good news, cheers ! I got the letter from England. To my great delight, I passed the remaining 2 modules required for me to obtain my Certificate in IT. Quote from BCS website: This level is the academic equivalent to Year 1 of a UK university honours degree and is recognised by… Read More: Yupi, got my BCS Certificate in IT »

The Software Crisis

By | January 26, 2009

Aim: To explain the background of the software crisis and the need for an engineering approach. When projects became too big and complicated to easily maintain, the “software crisis” was born, with programmers saying, “We can’t get projects done, and if we can, they’re too expensive!” Source: Bruce Eckel, Thinking in C++ [The major cause… Read More: The Software Crisis »