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Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional
idigjazz writes "Meet Arfa, a promising young software programmer from Faisalabad, Pakistan, who is believed to be the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. She received the certification when she was 9. During a recent meeting with Bill Gates, she presented him with a poem she wrote that celebrated his life story."
how demanding getting an MCSE is. ;-D
one of the MCP exams did take me five minutes to finish - if this 9 year old girl beat that my ego is battered!
:(
I mean, shes 9 - and she's a girl
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who told all the world to suck it
Selling insecure code
He sure was a chode
And his ethics could not fill a bucket
- G
Start a happiness pandemic
I started programming at 10..
:)
of course... a lot of it was stuff like..
10 print "k-mart sucks dick!"
20 goto 10
entered on a commodore 64 at a local k-mart store for all the passer bys to see
If I can't smoke and swear I'm fucked.
This chick will be so burnt out by the time she is 20, it won't even be funny. I saw the smile, what a nice smile. In 4 years, she will look like Glenn Close or Susan Sarandon.
Send her to the customers at 15, she will be crying to Mommy 2 weeks later. Then comes the drinking, the drugs, 3 or 4 divorces.
---- Berlin Brown http://www.newspiritcompany.
>What's going on here?
Calc.exe ?
This is the Microsoft Youngling!
I'm not insane. My mother had me tested.
MCSE is to computers as McDonalds Certified Chef is to fine cuisine.
"Rise, my young apprentice..."
(eek).
Smegma.
Back in my day, us kids had to write in assembly, and we didn't have these fancy registers you young whipper-snappers have today! We just had an accumulator and sixteen K of memory!
Kids these days! You've all got it so easy!
And get off my lawn!
</grumpy_old_man>
You do realize that you're taking issue with a 10 year old, right?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Dear bill they love you there in pakistan
you know how hard it is to be an also ran
and since the trial you've been working so hard on your tan
to do everything you think you duly can
to be doted on and smiled at by even just one fan
The EU said go away...China said come back another day, so now it's third world slumming for you while you pray
that you don't end up in a pakistani jail where you'll get blown away. die bill die
On a more modern note, no. I think anyone capable of using a computer can program one and it always has been so.
You're on crack.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
I think the parents should be charged with child abuse ... Forcing a child to learn Windows, it should be criminal!
He went eight years without his "precious" because he submitted to the collective will of some brain-dead academic airheads? What's smart about that?
Sometimes opportunity knocks. Other times, you have to roam the streets until you find it, beat it over the head, and drag it back to your place kicking and screaming... Where you have your pit already prepared... Some nice swing albums from the forties, a couple of car batteries, a fifty-pound bag of lime, bottle of ether... Wait, what were talking about again?
A poem of bills life? Yikes! She is only 9, I guess she is not old enough to have grown a hard sarcastic shell yet.
Well how else do you think Bill Gates gets customers? It's the same reason Kim Jong-il is in power. Gotta get 'em while they're young!
I've read poems written by 10-year-olds, and they all sucked. Really bad. Now you're telling me that she has written "plenty of C#" code. I've also read poems written by C# developers, and they all sucked. Really bad.
I'm sure that Bill Gates was pleased beyond words to hear his life story summed up in a few lines of Vogon poetry.
you misspelled "Lego".
She likes Windoze enough to get certified in it *AND* she is writing poetry about Bill's life.
How twisted is that??
"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power." - Ashleigh Brilliant
I've been saying this for years. A 10 year old could do any MCSE's job.