Arfa Karim Randhawa, aged 10, has become the youngest person to be certified as a Microsoft engineer. Randhawa passed her Microsoft Certified Professional examinations last year. She met Bill Gates this week and was taken on a tour of Microsoft's Redmond campus. The 10 year-old, from Faisalabad in Pakistan, asked Gates why children were not allowed to work for Microsoft and was told that they should concentrate on their school studies. But he explained that Microsoft has an intern programme which would be available to her once she reached high school level. Randhawa also asked why there are so few women in the company, suggesting that Microsoft should have an equal number of men and women. Gates replied that it is sometimes difficult to get women interested in technology. After first discovering computers at the age of five Randhawa pestered her father for a PC. She has been accepted into Pakistan's Applied Technologies advanced computer institute. Randhawa is now a Microsoft Certified Application Developer but plans to become a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, which involves building programs into broader systems for business. In the longer term she has her sights set on Harvard, or a career at Microsoft
Looks like Microsoft has someone inline to head their operations once they move overseas like most other high tech companies.
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I don't know. I think when I was ten I could have passed some of those MCP tests. Certainly it takes an aptitude, an interest, and some studying, but passing many MCP tests is like passing a basic computer literacy test. I have a niece who wrote batch files to get her dad's computer set up properly to play her video games at the age of 5. I wrote my first video game when I was seven, and my sister did the same at the age of 10. I think that most people don't realize how capable young people are. My sister and I went to a special computer programming school back then instead of day care like the rest of our friends. It was a blast - learning BASIC and LOGO on Apple IIe's.
Yes, Motivation is the keyword that can bring out magic.... I beleive strongly that parents should motivate kids and should divert thier interests in this sort of technical stuff apart from the daily television programmes and hangouts... I am good in programming and I am working in a decent software company...the credits goes to my father who wanted me to compulsorily attend computer classes and was a constant source of motivation and encouragement.... YoByte
I totally agree, I am not supported back home in doing webbusiness as they all say: oh you are making money? well let me see it then? They feel that there are to many people on this level and that I should do something like become a teacher or something.
Wierd how people can be extremely smart about a single subject, like programming, etc, but so naive in other areas. It's always amazed me how the best kids at math were autistic (sp?) and couldn't talk, etc. I'd say she's making a great start for herself at only 10... I just hope she doesn't get too caught up in the big world and never has a childhood...
This boy was about 3 when he met Bill Gates and Bill Clinton. He´ll be about 8 now, I think. http://www.microsoftkid.com/
The girl is obviously talented, gifted probally. OK--I dont have any kids...But shouldn't they be out playing outside? Eating dirt etc...
There was another girl from karachi Pakistan, Afsah Shafqat, a 12-year old girl, youngest Sun Certified Java programmer of the world Search google for "operation badar" worlds youngest girl
http://www.cybertecks.net/ [Network Access Message: The website cannot be found] Looks like they didn't do that great of a job...