Yashavant went to VJTI to pursue Mechanical Engineering, the most popular branch those days. He says that is his biggest regret in life. As a result, he let his love for poetry wither away. Yashavant had developed a great interest in poetry in his school days, but he says his English teacher lacked the skills to help hone it further. Education, naturally, topped the family's priorities. His father is an electrical diploma holder and mother a PhD in Political Science. Today, in our Techie Tuesdays column, we speak to its author, Yashavant Kanetkar, the man who has contributed in his own way to the software revolution of India, one programme, one chapter and one book at a time.īorn and brought up in Nagpur, Yashavant went to the school located nearest to his house. A major chunk of software engineers in India were introduced to C programming through Let Us C. What helped instill so much confidence in Abhishek during his under graduation days that he could do away with his fear of coding? What made him comfortable with language C like his own mother tongue? The answer to that is Let Us C, one of the most popular books to learn C programming.Ībhishek's is the story of millions of engineers who graduated over the last couple of decades. But ten years later, Abhishek is today an ace programmer who not became only a software engineer right after graduation but also pursued post graduation in Computer Science in the US later. Naturally, he was concerned about the computer programming course he had to take in his first year. When Abhishek* entered NIT Allahabad, he had two shortcomings: he did not understand English and had never worked on computers before. How a man from a humble middle class background in Nagpur went on to become a name all engineers swear by. In this week's Techie Tuesdays, we bring to you story of Yashavant Kanetkar, the man behind this book.

Let Us C is not merely a book, but a bible for millions of programmers in India.

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