It’s just like I have born a week before and finished my three and half years of B. Tech yesterday. The time has passed like anything, Meanwhile I have many good memories, I am writing here to elaborate my coding journey. Its all started with language C (The legacy and game changing programming language for IT) remembering Dennis Ritchie for his great work, I didn’t know anything about the language, and was used to by heart the programs in the language during my 1st year of B.Tech, It took 3 months for me to understand the language which was made a common subject for every first year B.Tech student of our batch, One of my friends named Sai Sirisha has some knowledge on the language, she used to complete the programs and tasks in time we used to get surprised for that, After a while for a span of 3 months I learned the language, It is very difficult in the beginning but I did as I am supposed to learn it for exams, I have spent sufficient time to get command on the language, I had put all my efforts and scored well in the semester exams and I am with a little confidence that I know the language well Until that day.
One day I come to know that there is something happening in the college related to Information Technology and Computer Science, It is a platform where they train students to programmers with our Interest as their fee, I first thought I am unfit for it, One day my friend sirisha suggested me to join the platform, I forgot to tell its name, It is MRND (Mission Research and Development), There I have met one of my super seniors named Abhijith, he gave three tasks for that day and told that we can join MRND if we solve them in 2 days, while solving them, I have felt the depth and taste of the language C, I have spent around a day to solve just a single task with few later updates to the problem statement. He is one of the best guides for all of the members of MRND, he encouraged me a lot to join the MRND, how many good words you say, People always pay attention to the negative ones, He used to scold us a lot, that scolding continued till the date, that is the strategy he follows to encourage all of us.
That’s the initiative in my second year second semester of B.Tech, I then started learning the features of the language, once I got command on them, I really played with the language, then I have learned java along with the semester, Later there are many tests conducted by MRND and I got qualified in every test and continued till the final test, Later in the middle of my 3rd year first semester the MRND platform of Telangana and Andhra pradesh offered us python and C courses for the selected candidates with a fee of 5000 INR , It is completely different from normal learning, they encouraged us towards self learning by providing online forums as wells as documents to be filled as per their learning strategies, their slogan is like if you learn by copying you will forget one day, but if you learn by experience, you will never forget, meanwhile we have few RND exams, every exam we wrote is a screening test where only qualified candidates continues with RND.
I made it into the winter camp at IIT Hyderabad, Telangana , India, lasted for three days, there they started telling us the advanced C with data structures, by the end of the third year I am able to play with data structures that too in C, many treat it as difficult, but what I say is that you will never say it is sweet unless you eat the bitter, and the bitter became sweet for me, Meanwhile I have selected as an ML(Machine Learning) trainee intern in SmartBridge with a stipend of 5000 INR and made myself available for around 15 days where I have tasted the basic machine learning algorithms, but I haven’t find time to join the internship as I gave importance to RND, Things are going so smoothly, Until that day came.
One day we are said that there is something called Summer Camp and only 100 students out of 5000 are chosen for that, I started preparing for it, I took every exam with equal importance neither too seriously to get tensed, nor too lite to leave it. Finally after an interview, I got selected for summer camp,I am proud to say that I am one of top 80 Coders of Telangana and Andhra pradesh of India as per RND, with an enthusiasm I made myself ready for the camp but there is something unexpected happened.
I started for the camp, on the very first day, we have introductions and paid the fee for the One month course and for the hostel it is 25000 INR, after collecting the fee we are made into 8 teams, On the very next day we have got introduced to new mentors and instructors, and they gave us few tasks I have solved 5 out of 8 tasks given, I really enjoyed the day, And on the next day we are made to worry, they asked to develop system apps , I have started them and unable to finish them on time, I have spent the whole night to solve but able to finish just one of the tasks given, they rushed us like anything, Its really frustrating and disturbing that I neither have sleep nor finished the tasks given and their rule is to stay within the camp for a span of 30 days, I really thought it is completely disturbing my health as we are neither eating well nor sleeping well letting myself sleep in the next morning, and this made me hate MRND where we are expected to have proper learning environment, I have stayed just for 10 days in the camp and worked on the tasks given from home. I neither got certificate nor had an identify over there, still I didn’t give up on learning, I continued to develop my own projects and strength-ed my programming skills through Online coding platforms.
Meanwhile I started teaching java for my friends for around 1600 INR per head, I am still continuing to teach, Along with java, I have started python as an online course with a fee of 900 – 2000 INR varies with three flavors of course,visit here, Now I have got a job which is worth a lot.
I have to thank two important people who helped me reach this stage, one is my friend sai sirisha, and the other is my guider Abhijith bro without him there is no RND for me.
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