“Yeah. Fifty lines of loops and conditions.”
“Thanks, man.”
Rohan stared at the IDE on his screen. The cursor blinked with infinite patience. Around him, twenty-eight other students tapped away, racing to complete their last practical assignment—a Python program to simulate a library management system.
Three days later, in the exam hall, Rohan read the first question:
He smiled. Wrote the code. Handled edge cases. Added comments.
Outside, the summer sun blazed. Inside the computer lab, two students sat in the fading glow of CRT monitors, talking about stacks and queues and why break statements shouldn’t be overused.