My Experiments with Java..

I am a guy who had Computer Science as his main subject in 12th standard and I still remember its since that time I developed a passion for programming languages. I remember the time we were taught Basic programming in school, there was nothing more boring than programming for me at that time. As the classes went by there haven't been any improvement in me, until I was introduced with C++ in 11th standard. I dont know what compelled me through it. May be the excellent teaching style of Hasan Sir, our beloved computer teacher :) We never realized that among so much fun and enjoyment in our Computer classes we were actually making our way through programming fundamentals and later on most of us would land up in there lives at places which would inextricably attached with programming. Well that was the beginning of programming for me, I would rather say.

Java... I remember I heard it for the first time in class 7th from my computer teacher. I didnt know anything more than just its name. At that time computers meant no more than a dull boring Black screens placed in our school labs, which knows some DOS commands, for me. Java seemed interesting.. :) or rather 'sounded' interesting! I decided to learn it sooner or later. But then we make so many plans in our lives when we are young. And as it happens with me always, I forgot even that. It wasnt until my B-Tech 1st year, that again the term 'Java' got refreshed in my mind. Actually it was an informal geeky (rather we all were trying to sound as geeky as possible!) conversations among friends at college hostel. There one of my dear friend put up this term & again I was reminded of my plans of childhood :) (sounds comical)

Well then it was the summer holidays of 2nd year and then I decided to try my hands out on something new. And what else can be it other than Java at that time. I just dived my college library and came out satisfied with a thich 1000 pages book on Advanced Java in hands. I happily took it home and then spent 2-3 days just to understand its starting 2-3 pages. :) It began with Multi-threading !!! that was the first topic I started with!
anyways.. it happens.. I kept on trying and consistently practicing all the programs and soon I had a large collection of my Java programs and gradually the 4 letters of 'Java' started getting clearer in my mind. And just few months more and I was the champ in Java among our friends !! ( i know I boast sometimes ) Another friend Raju, who started with C# at nearly the same time when I picked up Java, too started making cool applications in it. We used to spend hours together competing with each other, challenging each other on programming problems. He used to do it in C# and by now you all very well know what language I used:) ... This is called a healthy beginning. Later I self-studied JavaME an JavaEE, created applications ranging from stupid games to challenging problems. Here are few of my startup programs in Java. freely available and distributable, thats what open-source is all about! -

• My Tic Tac Toe game


• 8 Queen Problem

Another KIIT-Sun Club get-together

It was only this Saturday ie 21st March'09 and the KIIT- Sun Club was all set to organize a Technical demo on OpenSolaris2008.11.
It was primarily focused for the 1st and 2nd year students who do not know the intricacies of the operating systems and the specialities of OpenSolaris, in order to equip them with the basic knowledge of OpenSolaris Operating System, but was equally open for interested students of all the years and branches. And to my surprize I got the students for the 3rd years also joining me in the talk and few were found much interested to know the correlation between modern Linux and opensolaris as they look alike to them.
I started with the history of opensolaris project and later on introduced them with the tools to be used late in that session i.e. Virtual Box. Smart IT students didn't take it any longer to understand the underlying basics and working of Virtual Box as most of them have already seen some kind of Virtualization agents earlier. Few seemed to be already using Virtual Box, but still they liked to listen to the basics of the concept of Virtualization. Testing entirely different and new operating systems on their Windows preloded systems provided by the college, have never been so easy and risk free for them. Watching the Guest operating system run inside the host machine was though some kind of a magic to few but nonetheless all were keen to know the steps to do it. After covering the basics I demonstrated the steps for building Virtual Machines inside Virtual Box and how can the guest OS be installed in it safely.
I later showed them Opensolaris working perfectly fine in the Virtual Box ( preinstalled on my computer). Then after giving them a brief overview of the opensolaris I talked about the exciting features and opensolaris like DTrace and promised them to carry on this topic in future sessions.