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Check out this nine year old kid, the youngest Microsoft certified systems administrator on the planet. What were you doing when you were nine?

Macedonia's Marko Calasan got his first professional credential at age 6, when he passed the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator exam. Now 9, he just went for the follow-on systems engineer certification.
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When I was nine I was programming 6502 assembler on my atari 800. Guess I should have gotten more certs?
 
See I told everyone that Microsoft was so easy a 9 year old can do it...this proves me right!
 
It has always been my heart felt desire to start work as systems engineer straight from the womb. Childhood development? Surely you mean more time for me to get ahead of my peers who are 20+ years older than me.

Though impressive, I blame the parents. Feel for the kid and other children put through stuff like this by their overaggressive parents. Sure some kids like it and pursue things like this, but not at 6 years or towards Microsoft systems engineering certification.
 
Sigh, there should really be laws dictating who can call themselves engineers, like there are laws for doctors or lawyers. I mean there is the ABET and the PE certification, but none of that is required to call yourself an engineer.

Still, pretty impressive for the kid.
 
i was busy trying to learn what the hell agp and pci was because my step dad wouldnt explain them to me, finally asked my dad on the phone one day, he even sent me a raedon 9800 pro to give me experience in it :D
 
I have three of those kid things at home.

I think we don't push them enough. If any one of our kids got off their asses, and out from in front of the video games (my 13 year old lives there and gets pissed off when I ask him to contribute to the house).. ANY kid could be an MCSA.
 
good story

I don't blame the parents at all, what's to say the kid doesn't truly LIKE what he's doing? If he likes it, who are we to judge his parents? Fact remains that kids who are pushed to greatness have a high potential to achieve greatness rather than those who are left to their own devices.

I'd rather have a kid who doesn't mind being pushed a little than some slack ass kid who doesn't do jack shit
 
Marlfox said:
It has always been my heart felt desire to start work as systems engineer straight from the womb. Childhood development? Surely you mean more time for me to get ahead of my peers who are 20+ years older than me.

Though impressive, I blame the parents. Feel for the kid and other children put through stuff like this by their overaggressive parents. Sure some kids like it and pursue things like this, but not at 6 years or towards Microsoft systems engineering certification.
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I think you might be jumping the gun just a little. Do you really think the kid is giving a talk at a meeting or helping the nonprofit because of his parents' influence? Maybe he's just gifted.

At 9, I was trying really hard not to be a total social shut-in.
 
poor kid is never going to get laid. And what about child labor laws.. how is he working? Sure he's smart, and will end up making a ton of money. I still cant help but feel bad for the kid.
 
Marlfox said:
Though impressive, I blame the parents. Feel for the kid and other children put through stuff like this by their overaggressive parents. Sure some kids like it and pursue things like this, but not at 6 years or towards Microsoft systems engineering certification.
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Any particular reason you're assuming that the kid doesn't enjoy what she's doing?
 
The article keeps using words like "he" and "his", but the pictures seem to contradict...

Very impressive feat, regardless of gender.
 
I could easily navigate dos by the time I was 5 (How old does that make some of you feel?), so I guess this really isn't too far of a stretch.
 
I was playing with LEGOS back when I was 9 years old.

12 years later I am building computers. Heh.
 
I'd probably had done that if they had computers that could fit on a desk when I was nine.
 
morfinx said:
Sigh, there should really be laws dictating who can call themselves engineers, like there are laws for doctors or lawyers. I mean there is the ABET and the PE certification, but none of that is required to call yourself an engineer.

Still, pretty impressive for the kid.
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As a PE Mechanical Engineer, I totally agree with you on this.


If a 9 year old can get the cert he is either very smart or the cert is very easy to get thus has no merit.
 
When I was nine, I could find the bad vacuum tube in our B & W TV, take it down to the hardware store and replace it. Beat that! Lol
 
morfinx said:
Sigh, there should really be laws dictating who can call themselves engineers, like there are laws for doctors or lawyers. I mean there is the ABET and the PE certification, but none of that is required to call yourself an engineer.

Still, pretty impressive for the kid.
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Nanan said:
As a PE Mechanical Engineer, I totally agree with you on this.
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Depends where you are really. I know that in Ontario, Canada if you're not licensed by the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) it is illegal to practice as an engineer. As for getting a license, your options are either completion of an approved university degree, or completion of a nasty set of exams totaling well over 80 hours. :eek:.

33 3 hour exams for a Comp. Eng cert! :eek:
04-BS-1 Mathematics
04-BS-2 Probability and Statistics
04-BS-4 Electric Circuits and Power
04-BS-5 Advanced Mathematics
04-BS-6 Mechanics of Materials
04-BS-7 Mechanics of Fluids
04-BS-7 Mechanics of Fluids
04-BS-8 Digital Logic Circuits
04-BS-9 Basic Electromagnetics
04-BS-10 Thermodynamics
04-BS-11 Properties of Materials
04-BS-15 Engineering Graphics and Design Process
04-BS-16 Discrete Mathematics
98-Comp-A1 Electronics
98-Comp-A2 Digital Systems Design
98-Comp-A3 Computer Architecture
98-Comp-A4 Program Design and Data Structures
98-Comp-A5 Operating Systems
98-Comp-A6 Software Engineering
98-Comp-B1 Advanced Computer Architecture
98-Comp-B2 Principles of VLSI
98-Comp-B3 Data Bases and File Systems
98-Comp-B4 Computer Graphics
98-Comp-B5 Computer Communications
98-Comp-B6 Computer Control and Robotics
98-Comp-B7 Digital Signal Processing
98-Comp-B8 Computer Integrated Manufacturing
98-Comp-B9 Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
98-Comp-B10 Distributed Systems
98-Comp-B11 Advanced Software Design
98-CS-1 Engineering Economics
98-CS-2 Engineering in Society – Health, Safety, and the Environment
98-CS-3 Management Concepts for Engineers
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Really how it should be across North America IMO.
 
J-Will said:
poor kid is never going to get laid. And what about child labor laws.. how is he working? Sure he's smart, and will end up making a ton of money. I still cant help but feel bad for the kid.
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He will get laid by the "best of the best" by the time he is 16-18. The man will be loaded with $$$. Driving nice cars and living with a ridiculous lifestyle.

$$$ = getting laid.
 
wow some of you seem to think it's a bad idea for a kid to learn something

jeez you guys will make for terrible parents

when you have kids and they turn out to be slackers, guess what? Look in the mirror if you want to find the cause of that

Don't try to be all self-righteous and say how your kids will be "different" "because" cause you know all you're doing is bullshitting.

That kid's parents didn't want him to end up like the retards we're churning out in our US public school system, our colleges aren't any better.

Who are you to judge them for wanting something good for their kid?
 
you guys who actually clicked on the link, notice in the last picture he's giving a presentation to adults?

Yeah, i'd rather have a kid like that than some retard who smokes weed all day and ends up making me have to go to school to beat his ass because of whatever shit he's doing in class.
 
i guess people get jealous when a little kid has more ambition than they do
 
MS Certs are not that hard.

I would also like to add that certs don't mean dick without a BS or 3-5 years of experience to back it up.
 
most people get certs with no prior experience to back them up . . . . .

that's true for the entry level Cisco certifications

gotta start somewhere
 
I was throwing pine cones out of a tree fort at my friends on the ground acting as cobra command and they were the gi joes ... ahhh memories
 
Nanan said:
As a PE Mechanical Engineer, I totally agree with you on this.


If a 9 year old can get the cert he is either very smart or the cert is very easy to get thus has no merit.
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IIRC in Texas you must poses an engineering degree (or over 12 years of work experience) to call your self an engineer. You need a PE to advertise engineering services.
 
We barely had a typewriter in my home when i was 9.
Our entire elementary school had one computer (IBM i think) at that time and they had Oregon Trail on a 5 1/4 floppy.

Man that was a fun game.
 
While I have no problem with the kid working on computers if that's what he/she is into, this does call out a problem with the MS certs. They require no job experience. While that is fine for entry level certs like the MCP, I'd really like to see actual job experience requirements for the slightly more advanced certs. Maybe that would make employers value them more.
 
At 9, I was disassembling and reassembling radios, clocks...whatever electronics I could get my hands on...to learn how each functioned.
 
That geek prodigy looks like a she-male. S/he will have non-computer problems later in life. :p

But I gotta give him/her props for being so brilliant at such a young age. :cool:
 
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