Jalaj

Just after we had made our first visit to the computer room we were handed a textbook “The Basics of BASIC”. The book had all that I needed to make my next visit to Computer Room, next week, worthwhile. I quickly went through all programming concepts and prepared a few small programs using LET, INPUT and PRINT. My friends Pamit and Aditya also came up with theirs’ (one system was shared between three). When we entered the room with our paper slips, our Teacher Mr. Vikas Vaze smiled and said “How will you try all these?”. “We will do all one by one” was our answer. Pamit, who had practice over typewriter sat in the middle typing the programs and we two on the sides reciting them. Impressed, sir opened access to Computer Room after school hours, and to make full use of the privilage, we took to coming school by bicycle instead of School Bus. We called ourselves, the APJ group borowing our name initials.
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