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2CPU.com » News » July 2005 » Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional

Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional

Posted by: duke on: 07/15/2005 02:05 PM [ Print | 14 comment(s) ]

Since it's Friday, I thought it would be nice to post something fun. Slashdot has linked to an article discussing the youngest ever Microsoft Certified Professional. A young girl named Arfa Karim Randhawa is a mere 10.
The institute instructors assumed it would take Arfa about a year to go through the process of certification for developing Windows applications. But after four months of study and work, over summer vacation, she passed the required exams.
Some of you might want to watch out because this girl might replace you. :-) You can read the article in its entirety over here.


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#37250 Posted on: 07/15/2005 07:48 PM
The sexist pig in me is more surprised that the youngest person is a girl than by the actual age of the youngest microsoft professional!

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#37251 Posted on: 07/15/2005 08:36 PM
The politically incorrect person in me can't help making this comment:

This is unfair. It's not enough that these 10 year old kids are taking all the jobs in the porn industry, now they're moving into IT as well??

(I'll get me coat...)

RMN
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#37252 Posted on: 07/15/2005 09:51 PM
Originally posted by rmn
The politically incorrect person in me can't help making this comment:

This is unfair. It's not enough that these 10 year old kids are taking all the jobs in the porn industry, now they're moving into IT as wel??

(I'll get me coat...)

RMN
~~~


I almost feel bad for laughing.

[COLOR="Blue"]". . . I think a general Government [is] necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this [The Constitution] is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. " -Benjamin Franklin [/COLOR]

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#37253 Posted on: 07/15/2005 10:38 PM
That's alright. They can have my IT job. I guess we (IT professionals) will just have to switch to the P0rN idustry.

(I'll grab MORE than my coat.)

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#37254 Posted on: 07/16/2005 03:37 AM
I go around fixing other young developer's ideas of "Applications" and "Deployments" all the time - what would change?

Actually, this might be a good thing: Fix it fast or no cartoon channel for you!

Seriously, it is a wonderful accomplishment for someone so young; but it is also a two-edged sword: I only hope she can keep her childhood somewhat normal.

Girl-talk that includes "Well, I'm having trouble getting this array parsed for this function..." doen't play well with Dolls and Horses, ya know?

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#37255 Posted on: 07/16/2005 04:10 AM
I can just see it now in a 5 or so years when on a date she'd rather be conversing about the latest SQL server improvements or administrating windows 2007 setting up a DNS and IIS server...

Congrats to her though.

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#37256 Posted on: 07/16/2005 04:12 AM
She wrote a poem "based on Bill Gates's life achievements". I think a normal childhood is out of the question.

RMN
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#37257 Posted on: 07/16/2005 05:23 AM
Did I miss something or did she only get a MPC? Im sure many bright 10 year olds could study and pass that test. Its not like Gates is going to have her programing windows when she is 12.

[COLOR="Blue"]". . . I think a general Government [is] necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this [The Constitution] is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. " -Benjamin Franklin [/COLOR]

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#37258 Posted on: 07/16/2005 05:57 AM
Of course not, before you become a Windows programmer you need to be brainwashed and have all your imagination and creativity drained.

RMN
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#37259 Posted on: 07/16/2005 05:58 AM
Originally posted by rmn
Of course not, before you become a Windows programmer you need to be brainwashed and have all your imagination and creativity drained.

RMN
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#37260 Posted on: 07/16/2005 07:05 AM
No, I always post naked.

RMN
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#37261 Posted on: 07/16/2005 07:42 AM
So you're not wearing anything right now?

*hmm...did I call a 1-900 number?

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#37262 Posted on: 07/16/2005 12:24 PM
Oh, sorry...(starts back out the door) I was looking for the 2cpu.com forums...

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#37263 Posted on: 07/18/2005 04:25 AM
"Oh, sorry...(starts back out the door) I was looking for the 2cpu.com forums..."

What, no first post or Soviet Russian jokes.



Somehow I think she is going through her Windows stage. Right before she goes into her pretentious and fashionable Linux and FreeBSD stage.

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