Swaroop C H - India, Technology, Life Skills

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This blog has been featured as a recommended read in Outlook Magazine, for B-school students.
This blog has been consistently rated as one of the top ten blogs in India, out of 20,000 blogs listed at Invesp BlogRank. Read about how it happened.
You'll find interesting stories here about my startup experiences and my lifehacks.
Me, an influential GitHub user? Check out my GitHub projects.
To know more about Swaroop, see the About page.

Blog

Latest Post: Two nuggets from Coders at Work book

I’ve been reading “Coders at Work” book, on and off, and it is a good read for coders who want to learn how their heroes think and approach programming.

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Editor’s Picks

Vinay H R says: "The more I read @swaroopch blogs, the more inspiration I get from it."

Chaitanya Nettem says: "I love your blog. I just love it."

Chirag Gupta says: "I've been reading your blog for so long (since 2004 I think) that I find it funny when people discover it now :)"

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Musings

"So when this random guy at a conference was telling me his interview strategy, there was a game going on around him that he didn’t even realize. Serious applicants to companies like McKinsey were practicing their case-interview techniques for MONTHS before they ever stepped foot in the interview room. These same applicants that had talked to alumni/friends currently at their target companies to get the inside scoop on what really mattered in the interviews. They’d read books and Vault Guides and had attended info sessions. By the time they got to the interview, they were absolutely ready.

"And, as with virtually any other complex transaction, 85% of the work was done before these serious candidates ever stepped foot into the interview room.

"And the scary thing is, this is what most top performers do."

- Ramit Sethi

Books

A Byte of Python

This is a book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you.

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Syed Talal (19 years old) says: "The best thing I found was A Byte of Python, which is simply a brilliant book for a beginner. It's well written, the concepts are well explained with self evident examples."

@suren says: Byte of Vim and Python by @swaroopch is by far the best works in technical writing to me. Excellent reads #FeelGoodFactor

@Stripeh says: I found the tutorial by www.swaroopch.com to be quite awesome, got through it in no time, very practically minded.

A Byte of Vim

A Byte of Vim is a guide to help you to learn to learn about Vim, the text editor of choice for many programmers. This guide is aimed at both beginners who do not know anything about vi or vim and wish to learn how to become more productive in their writing, and intermediate users who wish to pick up advanced Vim tricks.

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@ven_cse (Venkatesh) says "Started liking #vim, thanks to "A Byte of Vim"

@Pradeek says "@swaroopch 's Byte of Vim is an excellent resource for Vim beginners like me. #awesomework"

Who is Swaroop?

Swaroop C H (a.k.a. Swaroop Chitlur) is 29 years of age. He currently works as a freelance coder. He has previously worked at Yahoo!, Adobe, his own startup and Infibeam. Read more about him.