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Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the snagging-them-young dept.

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."

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  1. Impressive but... by aidanjpadden · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 :(

  2. Epic Poem by gbulmash · · Score: 5, Funny
    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

    --
    Start a happiness pandemic
    1. Re:Epic Poem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      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

  3. Re:Big deal. by oldwolf13 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
  4. Re:So what does this say? by Andrewkov · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. Re:I think she is smart... by Civil+Beast · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?