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."

Comments

Just confirms

[Knome_fan]

how demanding getting an MCSE is. ;-D

Impressive but...

[aidanjpadden]

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 :(

Epic Poem

[gbulmash]

Her poem celebrating Bill's life:

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

Re:Epic Poem

[Anonymous Coward]

There once was a programmer named Gates
Who never could get any dates
So he bought MS-DOS
Became his own boss
And now he just masturbates

Re:Epic Poem

[kaellinn18]

What? What's a preview button?

I stole stuff from Jobs.
And now I own Microsoft.
Holy crap I'm rich.

Re:Big deal.

[oldwolf13]

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 :)

Re:Wait, 9 year old is younger than 8 year now?

[Anonymous Coward]

>What's going on here?

Calc.exe ?

Bill Sidious!

[Joel Rowbottom]

"Rise, my young apprentice..."

(eek).

Re:So what does this say?

[jgerman]

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.

Re:So what does this say?

[Andrewkov]

I think the parents should be charged with child abuse ... Forcing a child to learn Windows, it should be criminal!

Re:I think she is smart...

[Civil Beast]

If you check out her photo, in another 10-15 years she is going to be a major geek hottie...

... Now where is that (-1) Disturbing - Moderation when you need it?

Re:Yes and no.

[pegr]

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?

Re:So what does this say?

[borawjm]

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!

Medioce Poetry

[ari_j]

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.

Re:Let me get this straight...

[KanSer]

I've been saying this for years. A 10 year old could do any MCSE's job.