Out of College Job

After passing out on 2007 I was looking for permanent while I got a call from STG Corporation for a temporary post of trainer for an Oracle certification coaching center.

Oracle trainer:
I started training a class of students who are from different background and different knowledge level. STG follows a pre-defined structure of training and use Oracle original training material. The training material was good but after delivering few classes following the structure I came to understand that the students and the training structure were not compatible.

                I changed the way and started explaining with showing and proving what I was theoretically explaining to them, which generates some interest. But still there was a lag. I came to understand that the tables which the book was using are the new schema tables introduced in Oracle 10g and those are pretty big to memorize and lots of text to type.

                As a solution I started converting the queries mentioned in that book with the table from old SCOTT/TIGER schema. I created a blog and posted those query into a blog. http://arkaandoracle.blogspot.com/2007/08/some-good-problem.html

I put all the queries and problems but not solutions. So they start using those queries and develop their own query in few tweaks and they were looked enthusiastic in class and the sign of satisfaction was easily observed in their face when they get an output for a query.

                They all get certified and my job was done.  I learned that Scott/tiger is still powerful to generate query on most of the scenario. Now I am trying to convert all the queries in db2 and SQL Server which I will put in another blog I am creating. 

Website Developer:

I got another job for few weeks for development of a student portal of a training institution for training MBA students. It was a pure html and JavaScript web portal with lots of web content and link outs. Design was there, data was there I only had to develop the whole website and doing my own color combinations and deployment. I developed the website in Dreamweaver and doing the authentication using LAMP for the login page.   That was really a minor project but validation JavaScript which I implemented that time is still helping me to understand several JavaScript codes present in different projects.