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!! :-)
