Saturday, September 23, 2017
Learning Sanskrit - Class 12
Nothing new was taught last Saturday. The teacher covered the portion for the written and oral exam. But people were allowed to refer to their notes while answering. So it kind of defeated the whole purpose, in my humble opinion.
With no classes on Dussehara and Diwali days, I am afraid the classes will go on till year end to cover the entire syllabus.
With no classes on Dussehara and Diwali days, I am afraid the classes will go on till year end to cover the entire syllabus.
Learning Sanskrit - Class 11
I could not attend this class. But from the notes posted by the classmates on our Whatsapp group, the teacher taught how to use different forms of a noun in sentences. e.g. सीता उद्याने खेलति. Here the noun 'उद्यान' meaning a garden/park is used in its 7th विभक्ति because it is denoting a place where Seeta is playing.
And the परस्मैपदी and आत्मनेपदी formats of future tense was covered as well.
And the परस्मैपदी and आत्मनेपदी formats of future tense was covered as well.
Learning Sanskrit - Class 10
We were taught Upsargas in this class. What is उपसर्ग ? Well, take the word दुर्बोध which means difficult to understand. In this, the verb is बुध् -बोध् which means to understand and 'दुर्' is the upsarg which means difficult.
I am not sure how many upsargas the language has in all but we were given a list of about 22 of them. Some of them are easy to remember because many words in Marathi/Hindi use them. e.g. 'सु ' meaning 'Good' is used in 'सुवासिक ' which means fragrant or one which smells good. Or 'अव ' meaning 'Down' as in 'अवनती ' which is the opposite of progress. But for some of them, there are no easy parallels e.g. 'अभि ' meaning 'Towards'.
And to make matters more interesting, there are no rules about how most of these Upasargas affect the verbs that they connect with. It all depends on the verbs :-)
I am not sure how many upsargas the language has in all but we were given a list of about 22 of them. Some of them are easy to remember because many words in Marathi/Hindi use them. e.g. 'सु ' meaning 'Good' is used in 'सुवासिक ' which means fragrant or one which smells good. Or 'अव ' meaning 'Down' as in 'अवनती ' which is the opposite of progress. But for some of them, there are no easy parallels e.g. 'अभि ' meaning 'Towards'.
And to make matters more interesting, there are no rules about how most of these Upasargas affect the verbs that they connect with. It all depends on the verbs :-)
Learning Sanskrit - Class 9
This class was a class of 15 sentences. We took one verb and made 15 sentences e.g. I play, we both play, we all play, you play, you both play, you all play, he plays, they both play, they all play and so on. We did 4 verbs and had 5 more for homework. It was fun constructing our very first sentences, even if they consisted of just two words - a noun and a verb.
And there is no denying the fact that the more verbs we learn by heart, the more we will be able to speak.
And there is no denying the fact that the more verbs we learn by heart, the more we will be able to speak.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Alistair Cockburn, Surviving Object-Oriented Projects, ISBN 0-201-49834-0
Lars Mathiassen, Jan Pries-Heje, and Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Improving Software Organizations: From Principles to Practice, ISBN 0-201-75820-2
Jim Highsmith, Agile Software Development Ecosystems, ISBN 0-201-76043-6
Steve Adolph, Paul Bramble, Alistair Cockburn, and Andy Pols, Patterns for Effective Use Cases, ISBN 0-201-72184-8
Anne Mette Jonassen Hass, Configuration Management Principles and Practice, ISBN 0-321-11766-2
DSDM Consortium and Jennifer Stapleton, DSDM, Second Edition: Business Focused Development, ISBN 0-321-11224-5
Hock, Dee. Birth of the Chaordic Age. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.
Reinertsen, Managing the Design Factory
Battin, Robert D., Ron Crocker, Joe Kreidler, and K. Subramanian. "Leveraging Resources in Global Software Development."
Sobek, Principles That Shape Product Development Systems: A Toyota-Chrysler Comparison.
Slack, Tom DeMarco
Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age
O'Reilly, Charles A., III, and Jeffrey Pfeffer. Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People. Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
Beck, Extreme Programming Explained
Coy, "Exploring Uncertainty."
Robert Austin, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
Domain Driven Design Eric Evans
Petroski, Design Paradigms
Kenneth Thomas, Intrinsic Motivation at Work
Jeffrey Dyer, Collaborative Advantage
Ballard, Glenn. "Positive vs. Negative Iteration in Design
Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood's book Software for Use
Cusumano, Michael A., and Richard W. Selby. Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
Demming, Out of Crisis
Yourdon, Edward Nash (ed.). Classics in Software Engineering
Schwaber, Ken, and Mike Beedle. Agile Software Development with Scrum
Highsmith, Adaptive Software Development
Palmer, Steven R., and John M. Felsing. , A Practical Guide to Feature-Driven Development
Zaninotto, Enrico. Keynote "From X Programming to the X Organization." Third International Conference on Extreme Programming, Alghero, Italy, May 26–29, 2002.
Frederick Herzberg's classic "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?"
Developing Products in Half the Time, Preston Smith and Donald Reinertsen
Lars Mathiassen, Jan Pries-Heje, and Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Improving Software Organizations: From Principles to Practice, ISBN 0-201-75820-2
Jim Highsmith, Agile Software Development Ecosystems, ISBN 0-201-76043-6
Steve Adolph, Paul Bramble, Alistair Cockburn, and Andy Pols, Patterns for Effective Use Cases, ISBN 0-201-72184-8
Anne Mette Jonassen Hass, Configuration Management Principles and Practice, ISBN 0-321-11766-2
DSDM Consortium and Jennifer Stapleton, DSDM, Second Edition: Business Focused Development, ISBN 0-321-11224-5
Hock, Dee. Birth of the Chaordic Age. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.
Reinertsen, Managing the Design Factory
Battin, Robert D., Ron Crocker, Joe Kreidler, and K. Subramanian. "Leveraging Resources in Global Software Development."
Sobek, Principles That Shape Product Development Systems: A Toyota-Chrysler Comparison.
Slack, Tom DeMarco
Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age
O'Reilly, Charles A., III, and Jeffrey Pfeffer. Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People. Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
Beck, Extreme Programming Explained
Coy, "Exploring Uncertainty."
Robert Austin, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
Domain Driven Design Eric Evans
Petroski, Design Paradigms
Kenneth Thomas, Intrinsic Motivation at Work
Jeffrey Dyer, Collaborative Advantage
Ballard, Glenn. "Positive vs. Negative Iteration in Design
Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood's book Software for Use
Cusumano, Michael A., and Richard W. Selby. Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
Demming, Out of Crisis
Yourdon, Edward Nash (ed.). Classics in Software Engineering
Schwaber, Ken, and Mike Beedle. Agile Software Development with Scrum
Highsmith, Adaptive Software Development
Palmer, Steven R., and John M. Felsing. , A Practical Guide to Feature-Driven Development
Zaninotto, Enrico. Keynote "From X Programming to the X Organization." Third International Conference on Extreme Programming, Alghero, Italy, May 26–29, 2002.
Frederick Herzberg's classic "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?"
Developing Products in Half the Time, Preston Smith and Donald Reinertsen
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