ASIC vs FPGA

This came up during a conversation with a friend in the common get-together, and I was surprised to know I knew nothing about ASIC while I knew basics of FPGA. They basically serves the same purpose but have different implications on cost on development/testing and performance. Just found this nice blog about the difference.

http://asic-soc.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-difference-between-fpga-and_06.html

Things to learn and refresh  :

html
CSS
python
perl
shell
basic C

https://www.coursera.org/course/datascitoolbox : Data Science Toolbox
https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog : R programming