How can DA-IICT become a better institute?

How can DA-IICT become a better institute?

Encourage more people to stay in the hostel over the weekends! People need exposure, not the comfort of their homes. (Improve the quality of the hostels).

Bring innovation to the campus, in my batch people would take the time to make innovative projects of their own / invest time in developing a good startup Idea, but this would always be out of the classroom, innovative projects can be made a part of the curriculum.

In my orientation, Prof. Suman Mitra demonstrated how a low score in a single subject would affect my overall pointer and bring my grades down, and that was about it for the orientation.. Yes, grades are important, but the college should not endorse focusing only on grades. As a result of that orientation, many of my batchmates were very reluctant to participate in extra/co-curriculars. The college must understand that they're just as important for personality development.

Usage of online platforms for assignment submissions

Is there a CPI threshold by companies coming for placements in DA-IICT?

Is there a CPI threshold by companies coming for placements in DA-IICT?

I will answer this question keeping in mind final year placements and not pre-final year internships.

To graduate from DA-IICT, you need to have above 5 CPI in ICT and above 6.5 CPI in ICT with CS.

Few companies like Amazon and Directi do not require minimum CPI to appear for the test.

Some better opportunities like those at Microsoft and Morgan Stanley require a CPI of above 7. Microsoft might even be interested in your SPI to be above 7 for each semester.

Most of the companies coming to DA-IICT require a minimum CPI of 6. This also includes mass recruitment companies like Infosys and L&T.

Hence, from perspective of opportunities, higher the CPI more the opportunities. Although, beyond a point, it does not serve you additional benefits. At DA-IICT this point is at 6 CPI, which will move up in a few years again.

For all I observed, students with exceptionally high CPI will have it a tad more difficult as the recruiters consider them more academically oriented with more chances of going for higher studies immediately after graduation!

What kind of activities can one do in the first summer vacation from DAIICT?

What kind of activities can one do in the first summer vacation from DAIICT?

Doing an internship after 1st year wont help much.Do competitive programming mostly and learn something else also.

Learn data structures and algorithms well. You must have had a basic course on data structures.

I am not sure whether object oriented is covered or not. If not then learn object oriented programming first. Cave of programming tutorials are good.

Complete Standford algorithm and Princeton algorithm course on coursera. Also do codemonk s and participate on codeforces contest regularly.

Learn how to use git(important). Udacity has a course on it.Also it will help if u want to do GSOC next year.

And also learn web development or ML whatever thing that interest you.I would suggest web development if you're not in research stuff and it get hands on and easy to get started . Also it will help you get a internship next year . I would suggest you to check out Freecodecamp and Odin project and also learn code academy from YouTube if you are interested in web development.

If interested in ML ,do the Andrew ng course on ML and also Udacity course on ml . Learn python if u want to do ML.

If you want to do GSOC next year , then learn about open source. Learn git.Also learning web development may help as many projects are in Java script.

So my advice will be to do competitive programming and also learn something else which interests you like web, ml, Andriod etc.

WHAT IS PRESENT SITUATION IN DAIICT 2018 ?

WHAT IS PRESENT SITUATION IN DAIICT 2018 ?

I think present situation is not so good.

DAIICT needs brand awareness .

College doesnt have enough funds.

Administration sucks . They dont care about the future of college.

People outside gujarat dont prefer daiict.

And yeah , seniors have established a good coding culture , that’s the only saving grace of this college.

and placements are good enough.

this year on going average for btech students is 15.5 lac for a total of around 150 students.

So this is a average only top 5 nits can beat . And they have almost 80 students which is much lesser.

So daiict needs a immediate change in administration and new funds.

Otherwise it wont get quality students and reduce to something like thapar is now

 

WHY SHOULD I TAKE ADDMISSION IN DAIICT ?

• The curriculum or syllabus is very good.(all professors are very interactive and supportive)
• You have very good campus and best environment fo good ideas(green and soothing).
• The Library here is one of the best.
• 10 GB net daily.
• Professors are pretty good.
• The environment is very well too.
• Seniors are good
• nowhere you can find food  quality like DAIICT .
• all clubs and commitees  incourage student to participate in lots of activities

WHAT ARE THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES ABOUT DAIICT PLACEMENT ?

            WHAT ARE THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES ABOUT DAIICT PLACEMENT ?

One of my friends (let's call him X) had very average grades going into final year and placement season. This was in the days when companies  were still in the process of discovering DAIICT (I hope things are much better now) and a "top placement" meant a big Indian IT services firm (I'm quite certain things are much better now!)

Back to our story - while most of us got placed in companies like TCS, Infy, Mindtree, Interra etc in our 7th Sem, X struggled to get placed even in the final sem - it must've been quite tough for him to see all his friends enjoying themselves with peace of mind while he had to fight self-doubt (my guess), explicit pressure from family (I think his Dad felt he needed to "improve" a bit), and a lot of implicit peer pressure. Soon, most of the 200+ batch were placed and companies coming to campus became more rare as they probably knew the cream of the batch (at least in terms of GPA/CPI) was taken. What I found most surprising was that it wasn't for lack of technical competency that he wasn't getting placed, as there were dozens like me who had been selected for a nameless firm without displaying anything of the sort.

One day, a different kind of firm arrived hoping to discover a unique sort of talent which was still untapped. I don't think they really expected to hire a single person at our campus and were just testing the waters. They took a "technical" test which my friend happened to pass with flying colours - something he hadn't done previously. It just so happened that he had a different sort of "technical" competence - which most of us never had a chance to discover in  DAIICT; a competency for "quant" to put in a single word. This "different" firm was known for its derivatives trading desks, and it had hit upon the exact profile it had dreamed of.

X never looked back, as unlike most of us, he had discovered his passion. He won awards there for algorithmic trading (back when no one outside finance had heard of the term), and moved on to the US of A where he now serves as a technical expert for financial markets in the Fed Reserve Bank (yes, America's RBI :-)

Hope to see him on the front page of Indian newspapers someday like Satya Nadella!