Teaching in Nepal

I wish I had seen this earlier ::


http://www.gonomad.com/alternatives/0010/davis_teaching.html

About the great rewards, I agree fully. In fact, I can list out some other rewards too (e.g. Nepalese gifts like "Dhaka topi" , "khada", and lovely objets d'art). And, the experience itself is a great reward.

Thank you Nepal.


partha

PS:: What did I tecah in Nepal ? See here ::
http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/cryptoatkath.htm

Comparing apples and oranges, statistically speaking.

R vs SPSS

Some time ago I gave a lecture in Nepal Engg. College Kathmandu (Changunarayan), on the use of FOSS in teaching. One of the examples I chose was about R (a FOSS package for statistics). One teacher took the standard and stale stand about "user friendliness" of SPSS with respect to R. The argument, predictably went around in circles. I now have a more profound anser to that person's remarks. Since I do not know his name, I hope he will be reading this blog, and will realise the fallacy of his arguments.

Please take a look at ::
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_statistical_packages

partha

There is hope for Nepal

As long as there are colleges like NEC and teachers like Daya Ram Budhathoki, there is hope for Nepal. Wish them good luck and success.

QUOTE

Dear Dr. Partha,
Thank you very much for your wonderful and expert presentation in Foss for educational institution at Nepal Engineering College. I think your lecture definitely gave some rays of hope on migrating to Linux from pirated version of Windows and other proprietary software.

I hope, NEC in coming days,will be using:
1. GCC compiler instead of Turbo C for C and C++ lab.
2. KOHA for Library Management System
3. Scilab for Matlab
4. OpenOffice.org instead of Micorsoft word.
5. Mysql or Postgresql instead of Oracle
6. Moodle for For Course Management System
7. iTALC for intelligent Teaching and Learning with Computers.
8. Latex for Documentation, Thesis and Report writing.
9.Linux System instead of Microsoft
I would like to appeal all the faculty members, students, management committee and non teaching staff to promote open source movement in Nepal Engineering College. Really, there is no doubt you will feel the liberty in Linux that you will never experience in Microsoft Windows.

Thank you.

--
Lecturer. Daya Ram Budhathoki
Nepal Engineering College
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Changunarayan, Bhaktapur
Nepal
Contact:
Mob. no:977-1-9741213794
+977-1-5090721(O)
Email: dayaramb@nec.edu.np

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CRYPTO-V2 COURSE CHRONICLE

Crptography Course- V2 (KU2011-COMP560) website ::

http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/cryptoKUv2.htm

Class #	Date	Events (Each lecture is for 2 hours)
99	2013/01/13	Lab session Recursive use of gpg for encrypting an entire partition or entire drive contents.
20	2013/01/11	Lab session. Creating a fortress. Recursive use of md5 and digital signature.
19	2012/12/30	Lab session . Key signing party. KU web of trust KUWOT.
18	2012/12/30	Lab session . Use of md5sum and sha1sum.
17	2012/12/30	Guest lecture by Prof. PR Adhikary. Algebraic systems.
16	2012/12/30	PGPNET review. Briefing on lab. sessions.
14, 15	2012/12/28	Guest lecture by Prof. P. R. Adhikary. Overview of Algebraic systems. SSL explained. X509 certificates. SSL protocol
	2012/12/25	LaTeX hands-on Workshop Day 2/2
	2012/12/23	LaTeX hands-on Workshop Day 1/2
13	2012/12/21	RSA overview. Overview of network security tools. IPV4 vs IPV6. Firewalls, IP chains vs IP tables. IPSEC. SSL/TLS. Root certificate.
11,12	2012/12/16	(09-hashmd5) Hash digests. md5 and sha family. Applications. Digital signatures. Use in creating a secure CDROM (How to build a fortress). {08-cryptstandards.odp}Crypto standards. DES, 3DES, AES. Elgamal, DH Key exchange.
10	2012/12/14	Review of GPG exercise. (07-numbertheory.odp)Number theory principles. Interruptions due to power failure.
08,09	2012/12/09	(06-pgp97.odp)PGP/GPG. Use of Konqueror, Kleopatra. Keys creation and management, encrypt, sign, verify, decrypt. Class interrupted due to power failure. (05-keys.odp)Keys management, Use of key server. Key strength. Video by Terrence Spies. (07-numbertheory.odp)Number theory principles.
07	2012/12/07	(06-pgp97.odp)PGP/GPG. Use of KGPG. Keys creation and management, encrypt, sign, verify, decrypt. Class interrupted due to power failure.
06	2012/12/02	(04.secure97odp) Cryptography contd. Using vi and zip for symm. key crypto. Extending Caesar's cipher. Viginere cipher. XOR cipher. Feistel networks.
05	2012/12/02	Invited lecture -- Dr. K jha. Principles of algebra.
04	2012/11/30	(04.secure97odp) Cryptography essentials. Sita and Rama in cryptography. Symm. key crypto. Caesar's cipher. Asymm. key crypto. Trapdoor functions. Factoring problem. Discrete logarithm problem.
03	2012/11/25	(03-linuxsecu.odp) How Linux does it. Security tools in Linux.
02	2012/11/25	(02-bewarealways.odp) Information security, basics, issues, threats, remedies. Internet fraud.
01	2012/11/23	(00-takeoff.odp) Course inauguration by Dean (Engg.). Take off lecture. Course Overview. Security awareness questionnaire.
xx	2013/01/20	Scheduled end of course.
xx	2013/01/24	Scheduled Final exam
xx	2013/01/27	Scheduled declaration of results

Cryptography at Kathmnadu

Prof. Partha's course at Kathmandu. Take a look :


http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/cryptoatkath.htm

partha

Carrying Linux to the Himalayas

It is now almost certain, Inshallah, Partha will conduct a course on cryptography using GPG/Linux/FOSS tools in Kathmandu, Nepal. There will also be some encounters with the FOSS community in Nepal. Watch this space.

partha