It all started back in the summer of 2008.I had started working on an ambitious project with two of my friends, who were going to be my would-be partners in the future.Being the project leader and that too- of a project concerning computer geekiness-I had to be knowledgeable about some modern programming language ,atleast that's what my idea at that point of life was.I decided to join programming classes at a reputed institute. It was a three year course that was to give me a software engineering diploma eventually.But alas,things were not this smooth. It turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life.I had enrolled myself there for mastering the .Net platform using C# ,but there was not a single faculty over there to guide,you know, the aspiring programmer in me through the course as not many of them knew what the 'F' they were doing there.Most of the faculty members comprised passed-out students from the same institute who hadn't gotten themselves a good job anywhere else.I dropped out after the first semester with decent marks.I learned almost nothing there,quite frankly,except the basics that were mainly due to my own effort, which was not going to be sufficient-i had been saying this to myself before finally dropping out.
Enter my college. It wanted me to learn Fortran 77-hardly a language any student would want in his course that remotely relates to modern day computing - which did not make much of a point that was relevant to my future prospects and so i gave up even before starting.This was the case in the second year of my college. The final year was going to be most disturbingly interesting for me.
Fast forward to today.I have just completed the fifth semester,except the practical paper on C to be held tomorrow.This semester required me to go back to the basics. It was my confrontation with C-the most popular programming language to date.Having got some knowledge of the more superior C#, many of the ideas in C seemed dated to me. It became difficult for me to keep up with times but I did not give up this time. I decided to start from this point -my programming journey. After all my initial failed attempts to get a working C compiler on my computer, i was done with this thing too.Yes,you may say it was quicker this time than should have been but it was me.
Maybe, I was not made for this programming geekiness. Am I content with this? No. I will keep trying till my last successful effort. Next semester, I have C++ and hopefully I will , this time atleast, overcome my intrinsic urge to make excuses that make me look innocently programming-phobic, and emerge out triumphant while graduating from college with a good command over C and C++ .Only time will tell.
Enter my college. It wanted me to learn Fortran 77-hardly a language any student would want in his course that remotely relates to modern day computing - which did not make much of a point that was relevant to my future prospects and so i gave up even before starting.This was the case in the second year of my college. The final year was going to be most disturbingly interesting for me.
Fast forward to today.I have just completed the fifth semester,except the practical paper on C to be held tomorrow.This semester required me to go back to the basics. It was my confrontation with C-the most popular programming language to date.Having got some knowledge of the more superior C#, many of the ideas in C seemed dated to me. It became difficult for me to keep up with times but I did not give up this time. I decided to start from this point -my programming journey. After all my initial failed attempts to get a working C compiler on my computer, i was done with this thing too.Yes,you may say it was quicker this time than should have been but it was me.
Maybe, I was not made for this programming geekiness. Am I content with this? No. I will keep trying till my last successful effort. Next semester, I have C++ and hopefully I will , this time atleast, overcome my intrinsic urge to make excuses that make me look innocently programming-phobic, and emerge out triumphant while graduating from college with a good command over C and C++ .Only time will tell.
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