Since you know what you are looking for, it becomes quite easy to segregate categories for you to choose which place you want to go. Do all-around research and look at various categories like crowd, course curriculum as well as the faculty before making a decision. Here are some points that may help you out.

Faculty: One point where IIIT A might lag is the faculty. Being a top college, you might expect it to have some of the top-notch faculty in the country. However, it is more of a mix of government college faculty with some average teachers and others that are really well-versed in their subjects. IIIT D on the other hand has better faculty who have a rational approach to the subject of computer science. IIIT D definitely tops here.

Course Curriculum: You will find some of the best course curricula at IIIT A. You will be introduced to the subjects of computer science right from the very first semester. A major plus point is that there are no interdisciplinary subjects like ED that will be included.

Crowd: As far as crowds are concerned, both places have the same crowd. IIIT A might be slightly better as they do not hold any state-based preferences or quotas.

Coding Culture: The coding culture at IIIT A is one of the best in the country. This college is the pioneer college that represents our country in some of the most major competitive coding platforms. Just recently, 12 students were even selected for GSOC from IIIT A. IIIT D is still in its nascent days as far as coding is concerned.

Infrastructure: This is one point where both colleges are at par with each other. Both are good as far as basic amenities are concerned.

Lastly, you should know that IIIT A is a college with a national reputation. It will definitely give you the upper edge when you go for your masters. This is probably not the case with IIIT D. However, if you are looking for good faculty and a city atmosphere, go to IIIT D.

CGC Landran is one of the most reputed colleges in north India. The college has been awarded by many organizations. The college is renowned because of its pretty good placement stats. The table given below contains the recent placement stats of CGC Landran. 

Talking particularly about the IT Branch, CGC Landran brings more than 200 companies for IT and CSE students. So, there is a huge opportunity for the students to grab placement offers and it completely depends on their performance of the placement procedure. The teachers of CGC Landran help the students a lot to get them prepared for the final placements. There are special pre-placement programs that help the students to brush up their skills and become placement-ready. 

Students need to make sure, to sit in the placement, they must have 75+ attendance, good academics and they fulfill the companies criteria. Lately, the placement percentage of IT branches at CGC Landran was only 30%. This happened because of the ignorance of the students due to which many of them were on the debarred list and many of them were not interested in the placements. Hopefully, this information is much of your help. Thanks!

One of my friends got into the Acharya Institute of Technology for the Information Science Engineering course through the management quota. Interestingly, I was also looking up some decent colleges for Engineering in Karnataka for my sister, so I might be able to help you with your question.

I would further be mentioning certain situations or circumstances that you might face ahead. These can be:

• If, via KCET, you do manage to grab a college that does not match the rank that Acharya Institute of Technology belongs to, or is 2 or 3 ranks below of the institute, do not go for it as it would not be worth it.
• This is because there would not be any difference in the institutes that are after the ones mentioned in the top -10 to 15 ones. If you have potential, your performance would establish that.
• If you feel that ISE and CSE are genuinely your thing, go for it. If not, B.Sc. would be a better choice.
• If the total sum of 10 lakh rupees does not seem a big deal to your family or you. You can go for it.

Under circumstances similar or closer to these, you can think about pursuing it or securing otherwise. The choice is entirely yours.

There are no such specific prerequisites. You can develop an interest in coding within one year if you are interested.

The programming courses in the first year entail the comprehensive usage of C. It definitely is an extensive course and will take up time. You will learn the basics of it in the first year. The course includes parts like Functions, Pointers, Linked Lists, Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming, etc.

Although, having knowledge of Python helps. If, however, you've arrived with no knowledge at all of what that is, then it is fine too. Classroom teaching does not help that much for learning to code. Mostly, you will need to learn the aspects of this language with your own efforts.

If you have any spare time, learning basic front-end web development will assist in the long run as well, like HTML, CSS, JQuery, and Javascript (If possible). This will help explore a variety of other opportunities outside your curriculum.