Indian Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) Academic Reform (Past) Activism Blog Book : eklavyasai.blogspot.com (main work years: 2011 to 2014)

Main author Ravi S. Iyer created the blog and used it from September 2011 to play a part-time peaceful and amicable Indian Computer Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) academic reform Internet-based activist role. His focus was on improving the practice of software development in Indian CS & IT academia. But he thought that it is such a vital part of the CS & IT field and that it is so poor in many parts of Indian CS & IT academia that he referred to his efforts as Indian CS & IT academic reform activism. Other contributors to the blog have given their views on certain topics. Main work period has been from 2011 to 2014 with a little work later off & on. The main author is no longer active in this area. This book is aimed at helping other activists involved in improving the practice of software development in Indian CS and IT academia to get the views of the blog in a convenient form. The book may also be of interest to similar activists in other countries. Ravi S. Iyer worked in the international software industry developing systems as well as applications software (CS & IT) for over 18 years after which he retired from commercial work. Later mainly as a visiting faculty he offered free service of teaching programming courses (lab. courses) and being a technical consultant for student projects in a Maths & Computer Science department of a deemed university in India for 9 years.