老印的回帖
I don't know why Indians are so pissed about this. It's the same as the
reaction to Evan Spiegel's alleged statement.
I'm Indian and I don't find this completely ridiculous. The study was
conducted on 36,000 engineering students from over 500 colleges in India.
You have to remember that only a couple dozen colleges (excluding the likes
of IITs, BITS, and NITs) actually produce any decent computer science
graduates in the country.
I come from one such college, which is top 5 in the state. In my batch of ~
200 CS/IS students, there really only were about 30-40 who could actually
code decently well. A majority of the rest memorized code. Some of the
others were talented hustlers.
I personally knew 3 people in my batch that had never even seen a computer
in person before then. This, in a top 5 computer science engineering college
in a metropolitan city. Can you imagine how many more such people there
could be in the thousands of no-name engineering colleges across the country
, who eventually graduate with a computer science degree? We don't know how
many of the 36,000 students from 500 colleges that participated in this
study came from such colleges.
