Dr. John Davis Akkara

Consultant Ophthalmologist, Cataract & Glaucoma Services, Little Flower Hospital, Angamaly and Westend Eye Hospital, Cochin

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Dr John Davis Akkara, is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Cataract & Glaucoma Services, Little Flower Hospital, Angamaly and Westend Eye Hospital, Cochin. He has completed his MBBS & MS Ophthalmology from JIPMER; followed by Glaucoma Fellowship & Phaco Training from Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry. He has also completed the Ratan Tata Advanced Cataract Fellowship in Sankara Nethralaya. He has presented in state, national and international conferences and has won awards for smartphone based Virtual Reality Perimetry, smartphone ophthalmic photography and Virtual Reality in Ophthalmology. He has publications on Innovations in Ophthalmology including DIYretcam and Ophthalmic Apps. He is into technology & gadgets and does programming & website designing. He has worked on Raspberry Pi based surgery recorder and has made some Ophthalmic Apps for the Google Play store.

  1. Blog 18 May 2020 9 min read

    My Appventure

    My journey of programming and making Apps is spread over several years starting from school days. I studied in a CBSE school in Kerala and computer science was one of the mandatory extra subjects that I looked forward to. These were the days of Windows 3.1 and early Windows 95. MSDOS was still popular. In 5th standard, we started learning the basics of computer programing with LOGO or Turtle, where you can give commands to a triangle on screen and make it draw lines. Though the teachers taught us only the code for drawing straight lines, some of us students learnt that we could combine multiple commands to create complex shapes. The next couple of years, we started with GW-BASIC and QBASIC with which we learnt to get an INPUT from the user and produce a meaningful OUTPUT. Most of us looked forward to playing the games on the lab computers rather than the programming. Once the concepts were clear, I was able to make a random number “hand cricket” game in BASIC. When we got a computer at

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