9-year-old boy is now the world's youngest Microsoft tech specialist

[nsane.forums]

Pranav Kalyan, a nine-year old 4th grade student who lives in California, has now become the youngest person in the world to pass the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exam.

You may remember that back in December we reported on a video that featured kids in a Microsoft store showing adults how to use Windows 8. It seemed like a funny way to show how Windows 8 is supposed to be easy to use.

Well, as it turns out, there's a 9-year-old boy in India that not only could show most people how to use Windows 8 but a whole lot more as well. The Times of India reports that the boy, 4th grader Pranav Kalyan, has now passed the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exam. He is the youngest person to become a certified Microsoft tech specialist. The record was previously held by a 12-year-old in Dubai.

While Pranav was born in India, he now resides in California. He first started working on computers at the ripe old age of 2. His father Kalyan states, "As a toddler, Pranav was more fascinated by computers than toys. He started writing small software programs at the age of six. He is capable of solving problems in differential calculus and integral calculus. His efficiency in mathematics helped him write programs."

He prepared himself for the exam for 18 months and says he spent eight hours a day on computer programming over the recent holiday period. Pranav says he wants to be a scientist when he grows up, but before that happens, we suspect he will be making some money fixing PC systems.

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[rudrax]

That boy must be a super human..

[Shadowx]

Such an amazing kid good work kid

[Sonar]

I actually feel sorry for that kid.

[calguyhunk]

I actually feel sorry for that kid.

Took it out of my mouth, Sonar. Think about the expectations, pressures and lost innocence of a precious child. When will parents ever learn? :o

You don't need the stereotypical working class, ill educated, white trash made (in)famous by "Toddlers and Tiaras" or "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo" to realize that Mommy/Daddy does not always know best :nono:

The childhood robbing, financially exploitative, money/fame hungry parents are just as likely to emanate out of the pseudo-sophisticated, supposedly educated civil society who unfortunately are just as likely to succumb to the trappings of money and fame at the expense of their child and fall into this bottomless abyss of vicariously trying to live through their kids and in the process hampering their natural process of emotional and spiritual growth, maturity and well-being. :angry:

Society at large is equally to blame for the general mess we've landed ourselves into Circa 2013 when it comes to treating children - both able bodied ones and especially the special needs ones :(

P.S. - I wish this kid all the best. Hopefully he'll buck the trend of the Michael Jacksons, Macaulay Culkins, Britney Spears', Gary Colemans, Jennifer Capriatis and numerous other so called 'Child Prodigies' like him before whether from the world of entertainment, sports or otherwise ;)

[dcs18]

It seemed like a funny way to show how Windows 8 is supposed to be easy to use.

It's ridiculous for Microsoft to suppose that Windows is easy to use. :huh:

[calguyhunk]

It's ridiculous for Microsoft to suppose that Windows is easy to use. :huh:

LOL! You should've used MS-DOS. We did that back in the 90's in the pre-Windows days (on ancient B/W monitors, and some green ones as well, I might add LOL) :lol:

We were learning to program in GW-BASIC (Look it up) and I wrote 2 software programs for our project - One graphical and another productivity. The Graphical one that I wrote was "Paddleball 96" PC game :dance: The productivity one was an elementary Banking software :D

Talking 'bout DOS, just listing the saved files in our 5¹/₂" Floppy Drives was a royal PITA :angry: To see files on the floppy drive, you typed dir B: (B: 'cuz A: was the boot floppy drive and you had no hard drive in those things. No kidding :lmao: You had to boot from a floppy every time you logged in :P )

There were no Copy/Paste mouse clicks :nono: (In fact we didn't even have mouses attached to our ancient computers :hehe: ) We had to manually type in x>copy a:*.* b: :o

Oh! Those were the days. How I miss my autoexec.bat days :yes:

[Marik]

Oh wow, what a nice display of acting, microsoft really put on quite the performance.

That kid's got a big future in acting ahead of him, he played his part very well and it paid off as the masses of sheep buy into this.

Sell cancer in a can as a commercial and people call you a criminal.

Sell cancer in a can BUT pay some widely known doctor to promote that cancer and the masses of sheep will forever praise you as a hero.

This 'commercial' is no dif.

>go to some guy's house

>pay him lots of money

>borrow his kid

>make kid learn script

>pay other people to meet said kid

>showcase kid's acting tallents

>get that shit on camera

>put it on youtube and possibly on tv and news

>masses of sheep do the gangnam style and buy into it like the good followers they are

>profit.jpg

It's disgraceful that M$ fell so low that they bought someone's kid and used him as a means of marketing this os.

[CreativeThinking]

TOPIC HOT.

[insanedown58]

If ever they buy one of those Windows 8 Machines:

"Wait, how did the kid do that again? All I can remember was him yapping about things I can't understand and moving his fingers across the screen."

[Alanon]

Sympathy aside, soon enough women will be spitting out these little geniuses, and we'll be the runt of the litter. Truly scary to think what his mind will be capable of. Hm... now it makes me wonder. How come only geeks get to be child prodigies? xD What about a prodigy writer or linguist, painter or composer? Or have we not evolved to that stage yet? :P

[tezza]

Sympathy aside, soon enough women will be spitting out these little geniuses, and we'll be the runt of the litter. Truly scary to think what his mind will be capable of. Hm... now it makes me wonder. How come only geeks get to be child prodigies? xD What about a prodigy writer or linguist, painter or composer? Or have we not evolved to that stage yet? :P

Besides these

http://musiced.about.com/od/lessonsandtips/a/prodigies.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies

http://kathrynvercillo.hubpages.com/hub/10-Amazing-Child-Prodigies-Across-Time

^_^

[Alanon]

Yeah, but I meant that nowadays they don't get into the news as much as the math prodigies. xD When looking at it historically, there may have been more humanities geniuses, who knows. xD