Monthly Archives: February 2012
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What is Encapsulation and how is it achieved in Java?
Encapsulation, together with inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction form the four fundamental OOP concepts. Encapsulation refers to the process of hiding an entity’s internal structure, while allowing the outside world to interact through a fixed set of methods. As in obvious, …
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What do each of the words in the following Java statement mean?
public static void main (String args[]) This is the main() method. Just as in C/C++, the execution of a Java program or a set of programs starts from the main() method. Thus, there should be just one main() method present …
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
Various industry group reports suggest that not more than 20% – 30% of Indian graduates are readily employable in the industry. Among various factors contributing to the sorry state of affairs, the primary factor, arguably, would be lack of sufficiently …
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Exploring new Avenues
IPintentio was conceived as a next-generation, completely online, integrated development environment, primarily developed with VLSI & Embedded System design and development in mind. Accordingly, IPintentio features development utilities, like a rich code editor, a Linux shell, a file browser, with …
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Need to look into fabless realities in India!
Recently, the India Semiconductor Association held the ISA Vision Summit. There was a good gathering to hear what Sachin Pilot, Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications & IT, Government of India, and later, Kapil Sibal, Hon’ble Minister for HRD, Communications …
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Fostering Education in the Digital Era
With ongoing elections in the northern states, this might not be a good time to write something praising efforts made by the central government, lest it should be taken as some form of campaign. Well then, I will play safe …
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What is that one essential difference between C++ & Java?
C++ was designed mainly for systems and applications programming, extending the C programming language with Object Oriented Concepts. C++ added support for statically-typed object-oriented programming, exception handling, scoped resource management and generic programming, in particular. On the other hand, Java …
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What utility do packages serve in Java?
When comparing Java to C/C++, there is no concept like logical grouping of files in C, which is a completely structural language. However, in C++, namespaces allow grouping of entities like classes, objects and functions under a single name. Packages …
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A Talking Computer
We completed a week long Digital VLSI Design course in association with ThinkLABS recently. The course was primarily delivered through the IPintentio platform, in presence of faculty. Since this happened to be one of our first live engagements, we were …
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All attention towards ISA Vision Summit 2012
India Semiconductor Association’s (ISA) flagship annual conference ‘ISA Vision Summit‘ will be held in Bangalore on February 6 and 7 at the Hotel Taj West End. Like the previous editions, this year too, the ISA Vision Summit will see the …