The Magician who makes you fall in love with Problem-Solving
When did I start liking the only thing I eschewed?
Solving the world’s problems was always my fantasy, my dream.
But when did this coding become my thing?
As easy as my pastimes, sports, novels and writing!
Don’t know. But that is the magic this magician weaves …
Makes anyone fall in love with programming
10-2 every weekend
The time I wish would just start and never end ...
Just 2 months back, I had entered this world called Launchpad August where
There were jokes and then there were codes...
There were chuckles and then there were puzzles ...
And then there was someone whom I was obsessed with more than everything else put together ...
Who carried around a no-nonsense air, to talk to him still sometimes feels like a dare ...?
By the time I read and understood the question, he could be done implementing it
But here comes the twist, he paced it down to a level at which every novice would get it...
Such was his patience, his humility, his perfectly affable style...
You would feel like solving problems and coding all the time...
“Meri baari khatam, now its your chance”..
That expression when he said this could put anyone in a split-second trance ..
His diligence, persistence and pushing you to from time to time...
That mocking cum friendly smile...
His coming to our seats and correcting our codes,
That just looking at our faces and reading our thoughts
His signature innate gestures usually made us freeze
And simultaneously somehow inexplicably at ease ...
His “Mujhse poochlo yr“ was so conscientious..
Only made us more comfortable, rather than conscious
His calling us “nikammon” when we failed to see the obvious..
And his look could be cool, mocking, playful .. but nowhere near serious ...
His problem-solving approach:
Human solution-> structure solution->pseudocode->dry run->ok now u can code 😀
Turns out to be the fastest even if it seems infinitely slowed
No matter how much time it takes, No matter if it’s trying in the first go ..
Its important that you do it yourself, its important you should be able to debug your own code...
He often said stuff that seemed herculean in the face:
like keep the aim right and everything else will eventually fall in place.
Everything about him will makes me want to work hard, to the very core
Put in all I have .. and more .. and more .. and more...
I feel so blessed to just know him, have a teacher, mentor and guide like him...
He are one of the select few..
Who can so deeply influence minds and souls...
And transform lives once and for all ..
Do you know him??
Of course you do ..
Because Ankush bhaiya, it’s my version of you .. :)
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