My first encounter

My first encouters
Now I am a software engineer .So I would first tell you my initial encounters with the so called idiot box the computers.In school days or in PUC nights I did not study any computers but for engineering choose metallurgyI still don’t know what made to choose that .Fist two semester only theory was there in computers .In that also I failed miserably .In my batch itself there were guys who had computers in their 11h 12th standard most of them were guys from computer background. I with my like minded friends always hated computers because we never passed it in the first chance .3rd semester onwards lab started C++ .Getting inside the it was full A/C .I was literally afraid to do touch anything in it .Lab attainder came and opened the editor blue screen came up then he told us to enter the program and execute it. Suddenly one my senior came into the lab and asked me if Office is there ?? without knowing he was asking MS-Office I told office is in the administrative section this Computer Science Block Yaar !! Soon some of my neighbors started laughing then I realized something went wrong .I started entering the program silently and there by my first program hello world like may others who entered the world of computers .But still I was somehow waiting to get out of the lab.We decieded one thing that we wont enter this lab any more ..
Time passed by like that… one of my friend brought a computer for some 60 thousand one Pentium one .We all went to see that .It was the first time I was seeing Windows .Wow it is something different from the black screen I used to see in the lab .Suddenly he started copying some file from here to there ,I can see some icons flying from here to there .I just kept wondering (wondering was in a infinite loop).He was changing system resolution and many other stuffs .I thought I would never be able to learn these I should not have taken computers only.
Then finally lab exam came I almost learned all programs ..Somehow mugged up the logic .
I was given a program in C++ factorial using recursion .I thanked god It was the one I studied .Eagerly I went to the PC assigned to me .For my surprise I was not able to see the Blue screen . I got worried . It was embarrassing for me to ask the supervisor .I looked at my friends PC it was having the blue screen I asked how did you get it?? He told it was already there even he didn’t know how to invoke it .But he told me to run the command “come C” in dos prompt .I did it ..nothing happened “Come Soon C” ,“Please Come C” I tried every thing possible .Suddenly One idea hit I switched off the PC and told the invigilator when ever I try to invoke C++ editor the PC shuts down. He came and did it my idea worked .Oh.. was a big relief fellow Indians that time .That is how I still remember My first encounters with computer .
One more Incident I like to mention It was in Electrical Lab this time nothing related with computers ..Electrical it was much more easy for us because people who did not attend the theory class was not allowed to enter the practical .That is how we were not allowed in the Lab (it was not our fault rule was like that-J) .We had many experiments in the Lab I don’t remember much .Some tube light wiring ,Many motor/torque tests .So finally there came the Lab exam There was one of my friend Shabeer Kareem he had got one SWINBURNE'S TEST it was some motor test .Lab assistant used to provide necessary items based on the particular tests .The lab assistant came to my friend to assist him and asked SWINBURNE'S is it ??? No I am Shabeer Karim !!
After a silence there was an array of laughter Shabeer was still confused
This is last one I was then in Pree degree (PUC).It was in Physics Lab Exams .All my lab exams I would have some or other encounters .
I came running I was 15 min late .I thought of coming early and asking how was the exams how is the procedures in the practical exam
I reached the lab panting .I saw an external Invigilator there eating Vada(a round shaped south Indian dish in a hole in middle) and drinking tea.Question was written on a small slices of paper were kept beneath the big scale..there
I would list down the conversation here what happened then .
Me :Sir may I come in
Sir :Ya come in
Sir :Why are you so late don’t you know it is exam today.
Me :Train was late
Sir : Oh you come in train ??
Me :No sir my house is this side of the railway cross .If the train is late bus would be waiting there in the other side
Sir :Oh OK OK. Take one and Go
Me :No sir
Sir : Take it go there is no time
Me : No sir it is Ok
Sir became angry .Take one I say
I took a vada and ate it in a single bite itself ….My eyes were some what bulging out . I was supposed to take the question slice which was kept beneath the scale I was not knowing that..My friends just again were waiting for a moment to laugh..
There are many many such encounters to share See at some other time ..