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Follow up on ‘Nation at risk: Case study for the Computer Science Education @ Egypt’
I collected some more information and I got important question to answer:
Where are the peaks and how we fund them?
We just know the peak when we see, talk with him! Someone could say: Yes, Yes but I found/hire peaks at the time! - so trust me you just find and hired a normal engineers or your standard are low enough! or you’re not peak to identify them. There are a few peaks in Egypt. Less then 100 Engineers. Trust me on this.
The peaks tend to know peaks so it’s like a graph if you have a lead you can move through the node/peaks to know more.
Who are the peaks?
BTW not all the peaks use a scientific way of thinking!
Peaks tend to be keen about improve themselves, in other words they’re nerds (Remember The Social Network movie where the people was wired ‘writing code’ for xx hours). They work in open source projects and/or scratch they mind with problems and solve them.
Think about how this things works, read about science behind the concepts, technologies.
Peaks not necessarily be in love with NoSQL but at least they understand this table:
You can only have a scientific talking with peaks, otherwise it will be nonsense.
Peaks are the people who are open minded and believe in democratic of the ideas/technology - which mean s/he read about both world (.NET / Java) as simple example.
Student of University like Tell-Avive or India Tech. I. and Egypt:
There are a lot of activities for instance: In ACM they compate with Europe not Middle-east (good for them) There are huge open source community out there, Israel army do stuff like DARPA and NSF in US they fund projects, and hire student, grads and professors to work in projects. There are many meetups every month in different fields.
Students there study well, as follow up of what Dr. Mo2taz Abd Fatah said in his great show (really great show : A. B. SYASA) that every student should read at least 12 books in his major in each semester beside his syllabus books (department/school books). I just wonder how many student in Egypt read 2 books in his major in each semester beside the syllabus. In last week I asked two friends of mine in Tel-Aviv university and ITI, How many books they student really read each semester about CS beside they syllabus books?
Tel-Aviv :
- Average (which equal to our peaks) read about 4 to 6 books. But he also attend at least 2 meetups monthly about the latest researches and technologies
- Peaks read about 10 to 14 books. More importantly s/he at least working in one open source or government project. Attend at least 4 meet-ups monthly. Maybe he work in start-up or research project.
ITI:
- Average read about 4 to 6 books. But he also attend at least 1 meet-ups monthly about the latest researches and technologies.
- Peaks read about 8 to 14 books. More importantly s/he at least working in one open source project. Attend at least 4 meetups monthly. Maybe he work in startup or freelance.
