I am happy to announce that the Mediacom Studio website, www.mediacomstudio.com, has just been created by Christina and myself.
Mediacom Studio is a state-of-the-art audio and video production facility for Communication Studies students at the University of Mauritius. The studio will be fully operational for the 2008-2009 academic year. The studio has been funded by one agency of the UNESCO to promote the development of professional journalism in Mauritius.
The project was conceived by Christina and was approved by the UNESCO in 2007.
Initially, the students will use iMovie ’08 for video editing. This is what I use at home and I find it excellent for beginners. We have also acquired one license of Final Cut Express for those students who want to use a more professional video editing software.
I have just come across a great article by Alex Iskold entitled Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software Engineer. It is a must read for all aspiring software engineers out there… especially those who are still learning the skills in a university.
Phew! What can I say more? Apart from telling all of you to read the article thoroughly and to pay special attention to the various books he refers too.
Scripting is the same as programming except that you don’t have to worry about unnecessary details like deciding upon types, declaring classes and handling exceptional conditions. In other words, you only focus on the fundamentals.
Ruby is an excellent scripting language because it has been designed correctly. My students have had no problems understanding Ruby code that they were seeing for the first time. In fact, Ruby is a very elegant language.
puts "The 10 greatest tracks are:"
Not bad for a 20-lines long script! Incidentally, I deeply believe that Ruby is a great language to learn programming.
This is a great quote from one of my heroes, Mr Steve Yegge!
Ruby‘s one of the easiest languages for just about anyone to learn — it’s maybe a 3-day exercise, and after a week or so of using Ruby, you just may never look back. It’s like getting a new car: it still gets you from A to B, but without your old car’s flaky transmission, cracked windshield, and 5-year-old french-fry remnants under the driver’s seat.