Q Please

Winter season is back scaring me with continuous dip in temperature. I never like winters, as it makes my teeth chatter now and then. Also it lets my hands go half numbed making me unable to hold my pen.

Today I had to go to the railway station to book my tickets for Nasik. Though I reached half an hour early from the time of opening of reservation counters i.e. at 8 am, I saw a long queue waiting ahead to get their tickets booked for reaching their respective destinations on time.

I saw people were already standing in five queues. As they called “it was fully packed”. I moved forward. I did not wanted to miss my chance and so humbly became the part of it.

People were standing there from 7^th hour of this chilly morning where mercury dipped to 5 degrees. Yet I saw people around me relaxed, for getting the tickets soon for their place. On the other hand people like me who were standing right at back was a little worried for time it will require to reach up to the counter.

Waiting in queue, I looked around thoroughly. I recalled how last time when I came for booking my tickets, just because of ‘jaan-pehchaan’ (knowing someone out there); I got an easy access to the reservation counter. And then in not more than five minutes the ticket was in my hand. With that printed piece of paper in hand, I walked feeling high as if I have conquered the world (which certainly I did not; a disappointing fact for me J ).

Today, I stood there in a long queue waiting the spokes of clock to strike 8 so that the reservation counters get opened and of course for my number to come after ten to twelve people. Again waiting and looking around, this time my eyes stuck on 

'Q'

                                                                                                  

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Since, it was written thrice on the counter, I was wondering all the time about its meaning. At a glance, I really did not get what it indicated. Later, repeating the word ‘Q Please’ in my mind, I got it. It surely meant Queue Please. This reminded me of modern day text as used while chatting via internet or sending a simple ‘SMS’ on mobile phones.

People say it takes time and space while typing the correct spelling so they use ‘d’ in place of ‘the’ or ‘U’ instead of ‘You’. But here at station ‘Q’ instead of ‘queue’; Why? I wondered.

Till then reservation counter got opened. With that ‘Q Please’ in my mind I proceeded further to get my printed piece of paper in my hand.

C++ Classes, a nightmare

Nightmare! This word has certainly led your mind to recall some point of incident or a part of your life when you were scared of facing something or the other.

Today I was searching for some tutorials on web. In those tutorials I confronted the same C programming language that sent me six-seven years back to my life. When I was in my intermediate I always tried to ignore my computer classes as C++ was included in it.

C++ is an Object Oriented Programming Language (OOP); this is what I remembered then as well as now. Defining it as a programming language, with its use and advantages always bounced from my head. Five minutes prior to my computer science class, I always kept on repeating the definition, use, advantages and other basic facts of the language; praying let sir not ask me this time any question else I will be gone for now.

This was the case with most of my classmates who accompanied me in surpassing the nightmare of the dragon (in face of C++).

My nerves used to go cold when my computer teacher assigned to write program with proper implementation. In both the years i.e. class 11^th and class 12^th I always used to pray throughout the period “O God! Let the class finish soon this time.” Through these two years though I wrote very well in the answer sheets and scored good in the subject, the clear picture never peeped in my mind. I always wondered what the use of this language is and why we are studying it.

Today when I was going through the tutorials I really understood the use of this complex creature. I got the answer to my question that why it was necessary to study it. Atleast, now I am happy to proclaim that though I can not give a lecture on the subject yet I can explain the importance of C++ as a programming language. And also save students like me from such nightmares!!