Roos At Ten

A few days back CenterNetworks interviewed Joshua Gross, 18 year old founder of TapeFailure and in the interview he mentions that he has been programming for about 9 years now. Which means he began coding when he was about 10. We asked some of our fellow Roo's what were they doing when they were 10 and here are the more interesting answers:

Amol was wielding brushes and crayons and sketching random things in his drawing book, riding his first bicycle and secretly admiring a classmate named Meenakshi. Today he does UI designing and rides a Enfield Bullet. Also a lot of women secretly admire him.

Ashish was playing volley-ball, building models of airports, writing poetry and getting thrown out of class for running amok with ink and scissors in the classroom. Now he codes, innovates and is known for his persuasion skills, none of which involve ink or scissors. Incidentally he saw his first  computer in the year 2000 after joining IIT.

Apparently Shilpi spent most of her time fighting with her 3 brothers. Today she handles content related issues. Also her experience with her 4 pet cats helps her maintain peace between the engineers and the non-engineers.

And as for myself: I was getting introduced to pulp fiction through Jeffery Archer and getting bullied at school (I was taking Karate lessons too - apparently they didn't help much). I wanted to be a bigtime scientist then. Today, I find rock music more interesting!! :-)