Download or read book Computing India: Our journey to make coding accessible to the masses written by Bishnu Goswami and published by Bishnu Goswami. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It brings me a lot of pleasure to finish this book on the story of our journey to make the masses more literate towards computing. Although an enormous work is still to be done, explaining our foundation and initial steps will possibly help the researchers and software developers in the arena to make progress in the field and avoid the pitfalls we faced. As the conferences, seminars and workshops flourish after a low tide of two years, we indeed hope for a rapid growth in our initiatives in practice. Hope you enjoy the read! "But then something remarkable was happening elsewhere, and some family members were getting to be a part of it. The computer revolution was in full swing, and countries such as the US were importing talented people from all over the globe. My uncle was an excellent student, and he was employed overseas. After his return to home country, he gave us one of this older machines to keep, an Intel 80486 computer with a monochrome screen. That was my first computer and it played a pivotal role in making me interested in computing, work as a developer and publisher worldwide and then incorporate my observations into scientific research working as a Senior Fellow under the government. While we had an overall great surf with the tide, not everyone in the nation got to be a part of it. People from the upper middle class and above, that too in the metros and tier 2 cities, started becoming familiar with computers and computing since the early 2000s. In the late 2000s to early 2010s, computer education became a part of some school curricula, but the quality of teaching remained problem. Today, India is known for an IT export hub, and has a large number of software programmers, researchers and users of computing products. However, a huge percentage of people in the country, even today, is out of the sphere of information technology and computing as active contributors and users (as opposed to simple passive consumption such as watching videos on a low cost smartphone). This should change. In our approach outlined in this book, we tried to reach to more people and include them as active information technology users and coders. We tried to address the barriers of language and the complexity of coding, and learned a lot from our (yet) six year short journey. We hope to continue it and never feel its length until we have realised our goals to a large capacity. We hope to continue making progress.