Please Do Not Touc Sham's Pet Appu
Before you say wtf, this is a crappy line from my Computer Networks Text book.
Why can't Indian professors write good books. Most of the so called textbooks are total crap. And they cost no less than the reference books. There are hundreds of errors. I have lost count of the typos and technical errors abound.
But even what is more pathetic about these books is that they take no pain whatsoever in imparting any knowledge of any kind. These books are meant to read, fit into memory and then reproduced in exams.
Fortunately Pune University doesn't has some standards set. From what I have observed, paper setters are really good professors, at least most of the time. They ask questions which really test the basics. When they ask specific things, which are not in the so called "textbooks" people cry foul saying its out of syllabus and what not.
On the other hand we have It's, where a professor once put a ongoing research problem into a paper. When the students later went and complained to him, he just said, "Oh I knew that. Since there are very bright fellows here, I thought someone would probably solve it"
We also have sometimes manic professors, who just seem to like to set a very difficult paper, just for the fun of it. Personally I doubt if they really know anything. They just pick up the odd nuances from these "textbooks" and put it in the paper. Which are also most of the times really wrong.
We have also the Jigar's, which is a solved question paper set, even worse than the text books. If the authors don't know the run-of-the-mill answer, they just say the question is out of syllabus or else "The author couldn't find the solution to this problem" or words to that effect. Pathetic.
Sadly, most of us use the textbooks and Jigar. Although I have given up Jigar, I do still refer to textbooks for some of the subjects.
From 2005, foreign universities will be allowed to setup colleges in India. I do hope that they do and force other people to raise the standards.
P.S. The topic is a mnemonic given to remeber the OSI layers. Physical, Data Link, Network, etc.
Why can't Indian professors write good books. Most of the so called textbooks are total crap. And they cost no less than the reference books. There are hundreds of errors. I have lost count of the typos and technical errors abound.
But even what is more pathetic about these books is that they take no pain whatsoever in imparting any knowledge of any kind. These books are meant to read, fit into memory and then reproduced in exams.
Fortunately Pune University doesn't has some standards set. From what I have observed, paper setters are really good professors, at least most of the time. They ask questions which really test the basics. When they ask specific things, which are not in the so called "textbooks" people cry foul saying its out of syllabus and what not.
On the other hand we have It's, where a professor once put a ongoing research problem into a paper. When the students later went and complained to him, he just said, "Oh I knew that. Since there are very bright fellows here, I thought someone would probably solve it"
We also have sometimes manic professors, who just seem to like to set a very difficult paper, just for the fun of it. Personally I doubt if they really know anything. They just pick up the odd nuances from these "textbooks" and put it in the paper. Which are also most of the times really wrong.
We have also the Jigar's, which is a solved question paper set, even worse than the text books. If the authors don't know the run-of-the-mill answer, they just say the question is out of syllabus or else "The author couldn't find the solution to this problem" or words to that effect. Pathetic.
Sadly, most of us use the textbooks and Jigar. Although I have given up Jigar, I do still refer to textbooks for some of the subjects.
From 2005, foreign universities will be allowed to setup colleges in India. I do hope that they do and force other people to raise the standards.
P.S. The topic is a mnemonic given to remeber the OSI layers. Physical, Data Link, Network, etc.
posted by Devendra at 9:58 AM
1 Comments:
Original thinking and experience with the subject is a must, if one wants to write a book. Steven's book on Networking is such a delight because the author has architected, conceptualized and developed some of the networks and the protocols that he writes about.
However, Computer Networks by Keshav (AW paperpack) is a fabulous book since the author himself worked in the area before writing the book.
thanks
Saifi.
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