I am 2017 passout student, Entc engineer from Sgbau University. When I was new to know about cdac I had many queries Like you are having now, So I thought I must share my experience. Talking about my background : As I am from electronics branch, I wasnt that good in c programming or any kind of programming, but one thing for sure I was willing to learn, and have great interest in technology. So after spending one year(small short term courses) after BE, finally cracked the ccat with 640 rank in a+b+c (not so great rank in a+b) so I got admitted in DESD course in sunbeam, And omg, its wonderful course(great syllabus designed) as well superb teaching staff , my suggestion If you are confused betwwen dac and desd course and Have love for linux/kernel or microcontrollers, then definitely go for desd, Dac has good placements comparatively but syllabus of dac is tight and get less exposure to single topic, but in desd , suficent time to learn all topica and b...