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Thought ( मनन ) - 5: (Technical) An OS can't make person Intelligent or dumb

Yesterday I was doing something on Ubuntu (which was installed on windows 8 via Virtual Box ), A Ubuntu user came and commented 1. ooh! You are using an open source OS on windows OS His expressions were like - The greatest sin is using an open source OS on windows OS. I was like - Holy Shit! What have I done? Why did I choose this course? 2. Is it virus free? 3. The wi-fi is not connecting because you are using ubuntu on windows Some people have requirement which can be fulfilled by one OS. Some people want to try all the things available. Some people believe that one OS is not enough even if it's free. I do web design , graphics design, video editing, animation design and little bit desktop programming. Now I took this course which teaches about shell scripting and python programming . So I installed Ubuntu on Virtual Box to skip the pain of restarting every time you want to use some software of different OS. Now coming to virus, I know Ubuntu doesn't have viru

Ideas 5: Python Course project Ideas

I am doing a course called " Software Development for Engineers and Scientists ". We have to come up with a product idea that involves at least 16 hours of coding or work in python or in shell. It would be around 2000 lines of code. The following are the Ideas that accumulated till now A mobile GUI Application/Game Road Fighter Black and white World A drawing application for my TA work A python based website with login functionality and mysql A python based web crawler/Data collector - but that would be too easy A simple text game would be too boring Another Idea: Game for Indian Student (to make similar to existing app given below)  Develop a game similar to http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq#embed for India specifically, to give general knowledge to childrens.