Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Delhi-based computer science enthusiast and young author Krish Mittal (17) entered the International Book of Records last November (2021) for becoming the ‘youngest writer of an educational book’ Let’s learn C — self-published on Amazon in September 2020.
That’s not all. Earlier in the summer of the pandemic year 2020, this class XII student of Venkateshwar Global School, Rohini, who signed up for the ‘Summer of Making’ student programme of the Vermont (USA)-based Hack Club, a non-profit network of 14,000 high school computer hackers, makers and coders, was awarded a research grant to develop an autonomous disaster management robot, a project he had been ideating since middle school.
The only child of business couple Sumit and Nandita Mittal, who run Delhi’s Chocolate Villa bakery, Krish took to serious coding in class IX after struggling to self-learn programming language C for a year from
opensource resources and software such as YouTube and Reddit. “It was only when I was inducted into the Summer of Making programme 2020 that I realised coding challenges were common to all beginners. Having mastered the language, I contemplated creating YouTube videos. But instead because of lack of written material on the subject, I decided to write a simple applications-oriented book. It took me a year to complete,” he recalls.
While making opensource discoveries, in 2021 Krish came across quibitbyquibit, which provides a funded year-long college course in quantum computing. “My research proposals won 100 percent funding ($700) from the multinational technology giant IBM,” says Krish.
Now a master of five programming languages, Krish delivers online lectures on the digital platform schoolhouse.world. “I attribute my storytelling skills to my social studies teacher Gunjan Ma’am who had the unique ability to spin tales from history that kept me wide awake,” he recalls.
After completing Plus Two, this whizkid is intent on signing up for a computer science engineering degree programme. However, he intends to continue writing as well. “I have begun ideating my second book of the same series titled Let’s Learn Python which I will complete after my class XII board exams. Moreover, I will further develop my newly launched educational platform worldoflearners.com,” he says.
Way to go, bro!
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