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I am to share an exciting news I just received from IEEE Region 7 (Whole Canada) RSR: “I am pleased to announce that Carleton University Student Branch’s website has won first place in Canada’s IEEE SB website competition.”
I will like to thank every one of the website design team: Abhinav Shukla, Vefa Bicakci, Imran Hossain, Junzhe Zou (Davy), Laura Mutu, Laxman Pradhan, Manuanand Muruganad and Mohammad Farhan. Special thank to Farhad Khan and Keyur Hindocha for providing us with a concrete platform in the previous years and Jieyi Rong or guiding us throughout the time. Every one in the executive team some how contributed in the site. All the features were completely written by us. I will talk details about the site’s interesting design in another post.
Thanks every one again!!!
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Today, 13th September, I am wishing every programmer in the world Happy Programmer Day!!! 
Technically the 256th day of the year is the Programmer Day. Why 256? That is two to the power eight (eight bits = one byte) and also in binary 256 has 1 and eight 0s. That is the significance of the power eight. I am going to print this using few programming languages (here eight) I use most frequently:
In C:
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| #include <stdio .h>
int main () {
printf("Happy Programmer Day!!!\n");
return 0;
} |
In C++:
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| #include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main () {
cout< <"Happy Programmer Day!!!"<<endl;
return 0;
} |
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At last I am back to school again after 1 year of break! Taking full course load+ final year project (robocup). So, next eight months I will be at school most of the time. However, the weekends I will try to stay at home until my robots start moving.
I will post if there is any interesting finding. I will attend the IEEE Student Congress in Mississauga next week. Btw, this fall, Battle Royale Round III (oct 3rd) and IEEE Extreme (Oct 24th) coming up. Any one who is interested and can at least travel to Ottawa, don’t forget to sign up for Battle Royale. There will be nice games, and a lot of free gifts. Besides, every gamer will get steam account during the party, by the courtesy of Valve. IEEE Extreme requires to be CU student and IEEE member (it is prestigious though). That is all for today.
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When I was introduced to Nazrul at very young age, I was astonished by his extra ordinary and strong writing. Later through my mom, who always encouraged me to read books and helped me to choose right kind of books, I discovered peaceful Nazrul in his poems, drama and novels. Anyway, I am not going to talk about peaceful Nazrul in this article, but the rebel one. I got his “Vangar Gaan” [Song of breaking (chain)] when I was in grade 6; and something changed me. I am sure any kid who will read his works, has to change…. they are just magical. However, about Vangar Gaan, it was banned by British Government in 1924, 11th November, where he demanded freedom of political arrests and the language was more like “to break those prisons and shame on the mother (the queen) who failed to protect her children and ordered to put them in prison”. This poem is still banned in Britain. (So, if you are from UK, read this article at your own responsibility.)
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