![]() ![]() It can’t even run natively in any Windows version newer than XP. Our programming classes used Turbo C++ 3.0 - not the most up-to-date compiler, I'm sure we can agree. This is where Indian education is probably very similar to other countries - an year is divided into two semesters, your first year is a general year and so on.Īfter the first “general” year, I was ready to learn some programming - and boy, was I mistaken. Let me tell you that nothing stamps out creativity or risk-taking from a 16 year old better than what every kid undergoes during the age of 14-17.Īnyway, I failed to pass in the biggest of the big competitive exams, but managed to pass one of the other smaller ones and ended up in the CS degree course at my college. The narrative fed to you is "get into a good college and enjoy a cushy job for the rest of your life! Fail to get into college and you'll be a miserable failure for the rest of your life!".An advertising and coaching industry built around exploiting teenage insecurity and societal pressures for money (sign me up!).One million kids competing for five thousand college seats. ![]() However, when you're in your final two years of school, the spectre of university entrance exams looms larger than anything else. I believe this is the area in which I was luckier than other kids, and I am still grateful to my C++ teacher for that. My teacher actually encouraged students to solve problems in different ways! I even made a Dope Wars clone for DOS using Turbo C++ as my class twelfth project. Instead of memorization and grammar, we had open-ended lectures about programming concepts. I loved my C++ classes as they managed to be everything my education had lacked so far.
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