We are happy to announce that after the resounding success of earlier Quest courses we have launched this week the "Embedded Systems Programming" Quest course. As an add-on, those who wish to try the programs in the course on a Embedded Systems board can also use the board that we have created.

We have launched a movement called Quest. The goal is simple - Every person should have a right to learn from a subject from a person who has sound credentials and a proven track record in the subject. Time and again we see that though the technology is in place, it is the lack of motivation that prevents even good teachers of the subject to make available their talent and knowledge to others in the field. People have already tried mediums like books, articles, webcasts, podcasts, streaming, CBTs, etc. with varying degrees of scucess.

It was indeed nice to see a crowd of close to 650 persons listening intently to our talk titled "Go Embedded!". This is in contrast with many colleges where after getting a job in prefinal / final year the learning almost stops and the students are just running through the motions to complete the balance semesters, get a degree and get on with the job. It is often found that the keenness for "learning" is gone in most such cases.

Yashavant Kanetkar and Asang Dani are in the middle of the book titled "Art of Device Driver Programming". This book would teach a novice how to write Device Drivers for Windows environment. It does not expect any OS or hardware background. However, it does expect you to know C programming. We hope that it will play the same role that "Let Us C" played in building software careers of lacs of students. It will help students / professional to take their understanding / knowledge of device driver to the next level.

Yashavant Kanetkar and Asang Dani would be in Delhi to speak at MS Academic days at Delhi University on 28 Jan, 2006. http://www.microsoft.com/india/academicdays/ The venue is:

Conference Center Opposite Department of Botany, Delhi University

Update: We reached the venue about 1 hour late. Thanks to Delhi traffic which two hours to reach DU North Campus from Dwaraka.