Hello All,
Dates: 21st and 22nd September, 2019: Marked the successful completion of Dr. Gokhale Sir’s first ever seminar of his “Demo Projects”. The “Proof Of Concept” of this seminar, which was realized by Dr. Gokhale Sir a long time ago, was eventually brought into effect on 21st September, 2019.
During the course of the seminar, Sir clearly expressed the aims of the same. The primary aim being: to make the students, teachers and the professionals working in the field of “Computers” realize the inevitability of the foundation technologies (like, Win32 SDK, COM, etc.), without which the abstract technologies (like, MFC, .NET) cannot exist and prosper. So, one should excel in the foundation technologies before moving towards the abstract technologies. Highlighting and emphasizing the inevitability of those great foundations was one of the major goals of the seminar.
First Day of the Seminar:
On the first day of the seminar (21st September), Sir spoke, in a story-like manner, of his initial-most days in the field of “Computers”, when he knew absolutely nothing about them, and then of his journey and the hard work and code he put in to make all his projects possible. The audience, numbering 300, consisted not only of students and company-going professionals, but some teaching students, school teachers and college professors too!
Today, “Mobile phones / Telephone”, “Text Messaging” and “Video streaming”, are an inseparable part of our daily lives. We almost take all these technologies for granted and cannot imagine to live a single day without them. However, the situation was not so 17 years ago. Back then, the Internet and mobile phones were scarce in India and were mostly used only by the elite of the society. At that time, Sir developed all these technologies, on his own, by coding in “MAPI” (Messaging API), “SAPI” (Speech API) and “TAPI” (Telephony API).
This, in itself, is a crystal clear evidence of the immense strength and power of Win32 SDK and COM. Sir did not stop just here. After explaining about every technology and how he worked on it, he kept saying to the audience – “You can do it too!” and gave necessary guidelines so that by following them, they could successfully do whatever he did. This helped build a sense of positivity and self-confidence in the audience.
While concluding his session on the first day, Sir hinted at what the audience was about to experience in the morning session from 11:00 am to 01:00 pm the next day, dismissing them in high spirits and high anticipation for the upcoming day.
Second Day of the Seminar:
True to Sir’s hint the previous evening, at 11:00 am on Sunday, Sir’s students were ready and graced the stage with their own unique, beautiful and inspiring works of art, created using the technologies of Win32 SDK, OpenGL and DirectX and all only and only by coding. The audience was completely mesmerized and spell-bound, simply by the fact that whatever they were seeing was a product of lines and lines of code and mathematics and they shook the walls of the auditorium with their thundering and unending applause and showered praise on the creators of the magic and their work.
The demo-presenting students, right from the youngest college-going student “Chetan Kalamkar” to “Rohit Magdum” who has founded a company of his own, “Void Star India (VSI)” – which is highly successful and flourishing; all received praise and recognition for their work from the audience. They showed and proved that magic and certain (considered) impossibilities were achievable if one worked excellently at the foundation technologies.
Names of Students Who Presented their Demos:
Tanvi Arawkar, Shreerang Nandanwar, Bhushan Kalamkar, Prasanna Pawar, Prabhata Raipurkar, Raghavendra Kulkarni, Aditya Boob, Yogesh Jadhav, Bharat Mazire, Rutwik Choughule, Pranita Sharangdhar, Siddhi Ghod, Sucheta Bhagdikar, Chetan Kalamkar, Tejas Sutar, Gaurav Bhokare, Pranav Gore, Swapnil Bhave – Radhika Sahastrabudhe, Sugad Mankar, Rohit Magdum – Aashish Ayyar – Hrishikesh Dombe, Rutvij Kolhapure, Dipak Kardel, Sujay Ingale and Ninad Tulshibagwale.
Another student must be mentioned. For Sir, she has been with him just like his own shadow throughout: his daughter, Pradnya Gokhale (a.k.a. “Mithu”). The demo application of “Notepad Manipulation” presented by her father (Sir) and her very own application of “Notepad Manipulation”, which she demonstrated at the seminar seems like a live example of the concept of “Inheritance” of “Object Oriented Programming” : The Derived Class extends the Base Class to add more functionality!
While concluding the seminar, Sir spoke of another special technology and demonstrated his work in it. This technology is named “Heterogenous Parallel Programming” (HPP) (CUDA, OpenCL, etc.). On the solid rock foundation of this very technology, are based the world’s current popular technologies like BigData, Data Science, Hadoop, Data Mining, etc.
Ultimately, in Sir’s own words : “It doesn’t matter which field you are working in, as long as your basics and foundations are strong. A building with a robust and strong foundation can reach any heights without a fear of collapse. However, a building with a weak and vulnerable foundation will fall just as easily and quickly as a house of cards.”
This seminar will be called a 100% success when each and every person from the audience, imbibes this message and puts it into practice.
The audience had actually assembled to see the demo projects developed by Sir, but the demo projects developed by his students added to their self-confidence by manifold and this was proved by the feedback forms they filled up and submitted after the completion of the seminar. More than 80% of the audience expressed their wish and urged for this seminar to be conducted multiple times in the future!
Last but not the least, this was the first ever “Demo Project” seminar conducted by AstroMediComp. A fresh and new seminar, to be conducted at a new and unfamiliar location, in a new and unfamiliar seminar hall, with an audience of 300 people, for two whole consecutive days, while keeping the integrity of the property intact was a great responsibility. This responsibility was taken up and followed through and through by the volunteers of AstroMediComp. Words are inadequate to express gratitude to them.
Regards,
Team AstroMediComp.
P.S.: Taking inspiration from this seminar, current SDK Batch students (SDK 2019) surprised Gokhale Sir with their own Win32 SDK and COM Demos on Tuesday, 8th October 2019 – on the occasion of Dussehra (Sir’s Birthday)!
Total 25 demos were presented and 3 of these students had also implemented the famous “Notepad” demo of Sir, which Sir and Pradnya had presented in this seminar!!
This indicates the confidence this seminar has given to the students and it is also an evidence that this seminar was highly successful.
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नमस्कार,
दिनांक : २१ व २२ सप्टेंबर २०१९ रोजी सरांचे पहिले-वहिले “डेमोज् चे सेमिनार” पार पडले. सरांनी बऱ्याच वर्षांपूर्वी मांडलेली ही “प्रूफ ऑफ कन्सेप्ट” २१ सप्टेंबर २०१९ रोजी मूर्तरूपाला आली.
सरांनी असा सेमिनार घेण्यामागचे उद्दिष्ट सेमिनार मध्येच सांगितले, “कॉम्प्युटर” क्षेत्रात ज्या ज्या Technologies मूलभूत आहेत (उदा. Win32 SDK, COM इत्यादी), ज्यांच्या शिवाय, वरच्या थराला असणारी कुठलीच टेक्नॉलॉजी (उदा. MFC, .NET इत्यादी) तग धरू शकणार नाही, अशा मूलभूत टेक्नॉलॉजीज् ची कास “आधी” धरावी. त्यांचे महत्व अधोरेखित करण्याचा प्रयत्न म्हणजेच हा सेमिनार!
सेमिनारचा पहिला दिवस:
सरांनी सेमिनारच्या पहिल्या दिवशी (२१ सप्टेंबर), त्यांचा “शून्यातून” सुरु झालेला कॉम्प्युटर क्षेत्रातील प्रवास आणि त्या प्रवासातील सोबती, म्हणजेच त्या त्या वेळी केलेले काम, अगदी गोष्टी स्वरुपात समोरच्या विद्यार्थी वर्गासमोर सादर केले. समोर बसलेल्या ३०० च्या प्रेक्षक-वर्गात, विद्यार्थी, विद्यार्थी-शिक्षक आणि शाळा/कॉलेज मध्ये शिकवणारे शिक्षक-सुद्धा होते हे विशेष!
“Mobile/Telephone”, “Text Messaging”, “Video Streaming” सारख्या गोष्टी आपल्या रोजच्या जीवनाचा भाग आहेत. जवळपास १७ वर्षांपूर्वी, जेव्हा मोबाइल, इंटरनेटची सुद्धा वानवा होती, तेव्हा सरांनी हीच applications, MAPI(Messaging API), SAPI(Speech API), TAPI(Telephony API) वापरून “Coding” द्वारे तयार केली. यातून Win32 SDK आणि COM ची ताकद कळून येते. एवढ्यावरच न थांबता सरांनी जेव्हा “हे तुम्ही सुद्धा कसे करू शकता” हे दाखवून दिले, तेव्हा, समोरच्या विद्यार्थी वर्गात “सकारात्मक” आत्मविश्वास निर्माण व्हायला नक्कीच मदत झाली !!
जाता-जाता सरांनी दुसऱ्या दिवशी सकाळी ११ ते १ या वेळेत काय येऊ घातले आहे, याची पुसटशी कल्पना देऊन सर्वांचीच उत्सुकता ताणून धरली.
सेमिनारचा दुसरा दिवस:
सरांनी आदल्या दिवशी दिलेल्या कल्पनेनुसार सरांचे विद्यार्थी सकाळी ११ वाजता स्टेजवर सज्ज होते! एक-एक करत प्रत्येक विद्यार्थाने त्याची वैयक्तिक कलाकृती सादर करायला सुरुवात केली, तेही “कॉम्प्युटरवर”! जे काही आपण समोर पाहतोय त्या कलाकृती “Code” द्वारे तयार केल्या आहेत हे “याची देही, याची डोळा” पाहून विद्यार्थी-प्रेक्षकवर्गाने सेमिनार हॉल “शिट्ट्या व टाळ्यांनी” दणाणून सोडला.
वयाने सर्वांत लहान असणाऱ्या “चेतन कळमकर” पासून ते स्वतःची कंपनी सुरु करून ती यशस्वीपणे चालवणाऱ्या “रोहित मगदुम” पर्यंत, सरांच्या सर्वच विद्यार्थ्यांनी प्रेक्षकांची दाद मिळवली. पण त्याचबरोबर मूलभूत टेक्नॉलॉजीज् च्या बळावर कुठेपर्यंत झेप घेता येऊ शकते हे दाखवून दिले.
कलाकृती सादर करणाऱ्यांमध्ये होते:
तन्वी आरवकर, श्रीरंग नंदनवार, भूषण कळमकर, प्रसन्न पवार, प्रभात रायपूरकर, राघवेंद्र कुलकर्णी, आदित्य बूब, योगेश जाधव,भारत माझिरे, ऋत्विक चौघुले, प्रणिता शारंगधर, सिद्धी घोड, सुचेता भगडीकर, चेतन कळमकर, तेजस सुतार, गौरव भोकरे, प्रणव गोरे, स्वप्नील भावे -राधिका सहस्रबुद्धे, सुगत मानकर, रोहित मगदुम-आशिष अय्यर-ऋषिकेश डोंबे, ऋत्विज कोल्हापुरे, दीपक कर्डेल, सुजय इंगळे आणि निनाद तुळशीबागवाले.
अजून एक व्यक्ती जी सतत सरांच्या सावली सारखी त्यांच्यासोबत होती, सरांची कन्या – “प्रज्ञा गोखले” (मिठू) – हिला कसे विसरू शकतो आपण? बाबाने (सरांनी) सादर केलेले नोटपॅड आणि “मिठूने” सादर केलेले नोटपॅड म्हणजे “Object Oriented Programming” मधील “Inheritance” ची झलकच: “Derived Class extends from Base Class to add more functionality “!
जाता-जाता अजून एका टेक्नॉलॉजी बद्दल सर बोललेसुद्धा आणि तिची काय ताकद आहे हे त्यांनी दाखवलेसुद्धा, ती टेक्नॉलॉजी म्हणजे: Heterogenous Parallel Programming (HPP)(CUDA, OpenCL etc.). याच टेक्नॉलॉजीच्या बळावर Big Data, Data Science, Hadoop, Data Mining या टेक्नॉलॉजीज् बहरत आहेत.
शेवटी क्षेत्र कुठलेही असो, अगदी सरांच्याच शब्दात सांगायचे झाले तर – “जर इमारतीचा पाया भक्कम असेल तर ती इमारत कुठलीही उंची गाठू शकते, पण जर पाया भक्कम नसेल तर पत्त्यांच्या बंगल्यासारखी ती कधीही कोसळू शकते”. हाच मूलभूत संस्कार प्रत्येकाने कुठल्याही क्षेत्रात जागरूकपणे अवलंबवावा हेच या सेमिनारचे फलित!!
सर्वजण, सरांचे डेमोज पहायला आले होते, पण सरांच्या विद्यार्थ्यांनी तयार केलेले डेमोज समोर बसलेल्या विद्यार्थी वर्गाचा आत्मविश्वास द्विगुणीत करून गेले हे त्यांनी दिलेल्या “फीडबॅकमधूनच” सिद्ध झाले. जवळ जवळ ८०% पेक्षा जास्त जणांनी हा सेमिनार पुन्हा-पुन्हा झाला पाहिजे अशी ईच्छा व्यक्त केली!
शेवटी….. नवीन जागा, नवीन सेमिनार हॉल, सादरीकरणातील नाविन्यता आणि ३०० जणांचा प्रेक्षकवर्ग दोन्ही दिवस सांभाळणे, तेही जागेचे पावित्र्य अबाधित राखून, ही जबाबदारी यशस्वीपणे पेलणाऱ्या आणि पार पाडणाऱ्या स्वयंसेवकांचे करावे तेवढे कौतुक कमीच!!
– Team AstroMediComp.
ता.क.: या सेमिनारपासून प्रेरणा घेऊन, आत्ताच्या SDK बॅचच्या विद्यार्थ्यांनी (SDK 2019) स्वत:चे Win32 SDK आणि COM चे डेमोज् तयार करुन, मंगळवार, ८ ऑक्टोबर २०१९ रोजी गोखले सरांना दस-याचे (सरांचा वाढदिवस) सरप्राइझ दिले!
एकूण २५ डेमोज् दाखवण्यात आले, त्यापैकी ३ विद्यार्थ्यांनी सरांचा फेमस् “Notepad” चा डेमो ही तयार केला होता, जो सरांनी आणि प्रज्ञाने या सेमिनार मध्ये दाखवला होता!!
या वरून, या सेमिनारने विद्यार्थ्यांना किती आत्मविश्वास दिला, हे दिसून येते आणि हाच या सेमिनारच्या यशाचा पुरावा आहे.
