A look back path of PPD

We followed our Personal Progress Development subject during last two years. It’s been two years since I started doing Personal Progress Development and I’m very happy that there was subject like this in university.

As well as this session made us a quality person and a unique personality person. in this lectures we did group activities, out bound training programs, side visits, visiting lectures, class activities, outdoor activities, etc.

What we learned from this session is,

• Team work
• Presentation skills
• How to behave with others
• How to prepare for a inverview
• How to build up my career
• How to build up my personality
• How to create a perfect CV
• How to helpfullnness
• How to be motivated
• Leadership skills
• Work Under Stress

And also i feel my strength and weakness.

Thank you Madame Sarasi Seanadheera to invest your valuable time to us, thank you again!

Table Ethics Session

 We went to Srilanaka institute of hotel management and Tourism as a filed visit. The Srilanka Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management (SLITHM) is the only Government approved premier Institute in Srilanka, which was established by the Government in 1964 to train young men and women in the complex field of Hospitality and Travel Industry. we divide our batch as two teams & i was in the second team our team plan to go on 15th of November.

Srilanka Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management (SLITHM)

Morning 9:00 am we all are gather at university Entrance. At 10:00 am we start our journey through university bus. we arrive SITHM at 11:00 am.

the way to SLITHM

First we had a session about Dressing & behavioral approaches. He told us how to wish someone in different situations, space between two persons when they talk & speaking manners in group. The next part he talked about life morals and values negative thoughts, don't care attitude always bad for our life, when we post something in social medias we should remind that the this world watching us. The next session about how to dress & accessories. When the session going on they serve water & juice The perfectly serve those things in between those session we observe that one too.

The next session about table ethics. Deciding which knife, fork, or spoon to use is made easier by the outside-in rule – use utensils on the outside first and working your way inward. So, if you are served a salad first, use the fork set to the far left of your plate.

Your water glass is the one above the knife in your place setting and your bread plate is to the left. To remember which bread plate belongs to you and if the glass in front of you belongs to you or your neighbor, use “b” and “d”. Touch the index finger on your right hand to your right thumb. Touch the index finger on your left hand to your left thumb. The “b” formed by your left hand is for “bread” (your bread plate is always at the left of your place setting). The “d” formed by your right hand is for “drink” (your drinking glasses are always at the right of your place setting)

Table setting

The next session is our lunch  at SITHM dinning hall😋. The waiters( the students of SITHM) and supervisors (lectures) group of four people in the table. they prepared special menu for us, our table waiter introduce him self and tell about our menu.

group of four people in the table

our menu

First they serve the starter. while we are eating  supervisors guide us how  to eat some different foods and  give some advises, after the starter we are ready to have our meal " Sea food & cream sauce ,Braised rice and green salad. we enjoy our meal. At last they serve our dessert " Fruit trifle".

sea food

fruit trifle

How to sit around the table

The guest of honor should sit in the best seat at the table. Usually that is one with the back of the chair to the wall. Once the guest of honor's seat is determined, the host should sit to her left. Other people are then offered seats around the table.

At last we thank for who spend their valuable time for this session and they wish for studies and career too. I thought serving foods is a work but after this session i understood it's an art. we are the people who from different part of  Sri Lanka with different social status but session  help us to equalize our manners. We are very thankful to our madam Sarasi Senadheera & SITHM staffs for this wonderful session.

finally

Latest Software Engineering Trends

There are lots of IT related degrees in Srilanka to shine or get good job in these huge crowd we have to know what are the new trends going on the software industry & what the industry expecting from the Degree holders. This session conducted by  hSenid mobiles one of the best mobile service solutions in Srilanka.

On that day HR manager and Technical Lead organize an event for discuss about new software trends in industry.Firstly HR manager give some introduction about  hSenid Mobile and then Technical lead start the code session .What kind of software engineer that industry want and what we want to know for got a job.

In this lecture he came up with the IoT(Internet of Things) he mentioned that the usage of IOT(Internet of Things) devices. IoT encourages the communication between devices, also famously known as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication. Because of this, the physical devices are able to stay connected and hence the total transparency is available with lesser inefficiencies and greater quality. IoT Mostly used because  It saves lot;s of money because optimum utilization of energy and resources can be achieved by adopting this technology and keeping the devices under surveillance. We can be alerted in case of possible bottlenecks, breakdowns, and damages to the system. Hence, we can save money by using this technology.

Next he come up with Advantages of using open source, in this session he told about the benefits of open source is tremendous and has gained huge popularity in the field of IT in recent years. This is mainly because the advantages of open-source software is that it's free to use – its greatest advantage. As it is developed by a non-profit community, it has some disadvantages as well.Open-source software is free to use, distribute, and modify. It has lower costs, and in most cases this is only a fraction of the cost of their proprietary counterparts.

Open-source software is more secured as the code is accessible to everyone. Anyone can fix bugs as they are found, and users do not have to wait for the next release. The fact that is continuously analyzed by a large community produces secure and stable code.Open source is not dependent on the company or author that originally created it. Even if the company fails, the code continues to exist and be developed by its users. Also, it uses open standards accessible to everyone; thus, it does not have the problem of incompatible formats that exist in proprietary software.Lastly, the companies using open-source software do not have to think about complex licensing models and do not need anti-piracy measures like product activation or serial number.

Then he told about SOFTWARE BUSINESS in this topic, that idea that all businesses are software businesses should not come as a shock to anyone at this point, but what may come as a surprise is that the changes emerging from software development, operations, and data teams and frankly, you and your team—are at the epicenter of this transformation!

"Software Development is Business Development"

As technology professionals, you are transforming how enterprise is run from the software on up providing data to stakeholders to make better informed decisions, shaping how customers interact with the business, and ensuring its stability, security, and scalability. So, don't mess it up. A lot is riding on your shoulders, from communicating business needs outside your team (i.e., Inner Source) to how you wrangle and analyze your data, and how you set up the company for growth from code to outreach.

Finally he told about Machine Learning, machine learning is a core sub-area of artificial intelligence; it enables computers to get into a mode of self-learning without being explicitly programmed. When exposed to new data, these computer programs are enabled to learn, grow, change, and develop by themselves.

so these are important facts that we learnt on that day we must be really thankful to the madam Sarasi  Senadheera and hSenid mobile to conducting us as a helpful lecture.

Out Bound Training Programme

the way to trincomalee

  On the 9th and 10th, we (first year and second year students of Software Engineering) went to Out bounding training to Trincomalee Navy camp with the guidance of 3 lecturers including our Sarasi madam.

On 9th morning, we started travelling at 3.30 am in two buses. both first and second years were in the bus. Our bus stopped in Kandalai river. There we could see the beautiful river in one side of the road and green paddy field in other side. There we took some fresh air and then started our journey back.

Kandalai river area

We reached Trinco at 10.30 am, There we  were provided with accommodations. Then we were given time to get ready. then we got ready and took our lunch there. After that our training activities were started.

DAY 01 (09-12-2017)

We were separated into four groups.I was in the fourth group "DELTA".

1. Activity: go through the electric square

In this activity we asked to select 8 members in each groups and there was a small square which was tucked with two bamboos and placed it as the square comes in the middle with little bit of high from floor and we were asked to go into the square without touching and if any part of our body touched the square then we were out and once again start  from the first. This is the first activity and we did it with much more interestingly and happily. Then an officer told us the plus and the minus of our group and he especially mentioned that our team wasn't had a unique leader and every body take the leadership and that was the big mistake we did and very quickly we understand our mistake and appointed a leader for the next activity. In this game 6 out of 8 members went through the high tension wire including me.

2. Activity: Pass a marble through a PVC pipe

 The second activity was also very  interesting and needed strategy and coordination. In this activity, we had to pass a marble through a PVC pipe. We had to select 8 to play and one to give instructions. Prasanth was giving us instructions in this activity. We had to join the PVC's ending to prevent it from falling down. We did our best in this activity and finished before five minutes.

3. Activity: Fill the cylindrical pipe with hollows around it and non covered in the bottom

This was the most interesting and enjoyable activity we did during the two days. We were given a  cylindrical pipe with hollows around it and non covered in the bottom. We had to fill the pipe quickly by using our hands and our mouth. So to make the bottom covered, we made Kishanth to lay down and kept the tube above him. Then we ran to the beach and collected water and filled it. We filled the tube in just two minutes. So the navy officer took our photo.

Activity time

4. Activity: Keep the brick without falling down by stomach

We asked to form 10 people from each group in a queue and they gave us bricks and each of every one wants to keep the brick in their stomach and the person who in front wants to keep that brick without falling down by pushing it with his back and also the other condition was every one wants to keep their hands on the back side of the head then the group asked to move to the boundary 

line which was kept by the officers without fall down any bricks if any brick fall down then the team wanted to start from the beginning. But this time we didn't reach the boundary line.

5. Activity: Beach volley ball without using hands

Fifth activity was beach volley ball but a small different. we can't use our hands. So what happened was every group formed their group into three parts with 6 member for each and one of the person wants to stay the other side to catch the ball. the other five wants to stay the other side and four of them wants to hold a cloth like a rubber sheet and the other one wants to keep the volley ball onto the rubber sheet and lead the team and the team wanted to throw the ball using that cloth to the other side and the person who stand on the other side wanted to catch the ball. if it happened correctly then the team will get 1 points. every group got 15 chances to try it and we team Delta got 5 points. This also a nice activity.

6. Activity: Tug of war

when the tug of war time

This activity time for a serious game and now we wanted to take participate in tough of war. So its nothing to say the rules that every one know it and we first tried very very hard and we won the first team for 2-0. then every one were tired a lot and we moved into the final but this time we faced a huge problem that some of our members were injured so we haven't enough good players to take part in the game but we didn't give up and able to take part in the tough of war. That is our success. But in this only boys took part, but girls also wanted to take part. So girls divided into two teams between themselves and played.

Kandalai river area

  All these games were team activities. So we were able to improve many qualities. When we do a  team activity we should have a team leader to guide us. We should listen to the team leader and follow his or her orders. But we all can discuss and express ideas. But final decision should be made by team leader.

   Games like 2 and 4 really need a leader to coordinate the work. The leader had to say where to stop where to move where to slow down. The teams which had a good connection with the leader completed the task.

   Finally we finished all the tough activities of the day and we all returned to our rest rooms and got ready for the dinner party. At first boys were asked to wear formal and girls were asked to wear sarees. But then they said that girls need not to wear sarees, they can wear some casual.

ready to dinner party

   Nearly at 6:00 pm we backed to the same place where we spend the day and this time it decorated with lights. Then the campfire night started, we all it means every group did two programs and we did a small drama and a group song and everyone enjoy in DJ. Then we had our dinner in the beach enjoying the cool wind. Finally we back to our rest rooms after a unforgettable memories in the first day we went to bed.

fire camp time

DAY 02 (10-12-2017)

This is day two. we all got up early in the morning and took our breakfast at about 7:30 am  which was arranged by the navy officers.

breakfast time (waiting for breakfast)

After that we were again divided into 4 groups for the adventurous activity. This day also i was in the fourth group "DELTA". We had a map and a compass and we asked to reached the elephant point by using the map and the compass and its 2.5 km distance. so first the officers taught us how to use the compass and they came for support us.

ready to go elephant point

Then we move towards the final destination with our team. when we walked suddenly we saw a person who severely injured (acting as injured to train us) and then we take steps very slowly to secure him and some of the members didn't take much serious and laugh and we poured him water but unfortunately he was died (acted as died). then the officer who acted was got up and points out the mistakes which we did and then we continued our journey and finally we reached the destination and had a good time their and relaxed for a while.

relaxing time

After the relaxation we walked to the Naval museum and saw a lot their. The components which were damaged in the time of second world war and in the time of war which happened more the 3 decades in Srilanka.

at museum

Finally after watched the museum we went to Sniper training center, then we took our lunch and thanked the navy officers for giving us the golden opportunity and for spending us their valuable time in training and teaching us different things and we took a group photo also with navy officers. then we started travelling back at 3.30 pm to the university and danced for songs in bus then at 10:30 pm we reached our university with some unique memories and experiences.

with Navy officers