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Monday, May 31, 2004

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Computer workshop for EAMCET rank-holders

By Our Special Correspondent

VIJAYAWADA, MAY 30. A computer workshop for the rank-holders of the engineering stream of EAMCET-2004 was inaugurated at the Siddhartha Academy on Sunday.

Conducted with the technical expertise and guidance of the Institute of Electronic Governance of the State Government, the workshop is aimed at developing the computer skills of the students before they formally enter the field.

The course content includes computer hardware, computer assembling and trouble-shooting, concepts of operating systems, installation of Linux, utilities programs under Linux and C, productivity tools, and Internet and web programming. The two-week workshop would be conducted during the time before the EAMCET counselling, which is scheduled for the second week of July, commences.

According to a press release, the Institute of Electronic Governance has planned such training programmes in several batches as part of efforts to develop computer skills among students and improve the quality of technical education in the State.

Institutions with the necessary infrastructure for the conduct of such courses are being motivated to organise the programmes. Based on the response to the first batch, the workshop for a second batch was likely to be conducted in the first week of July, the release said.

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