Prof. Brouhaha is a renowned academic don but a poor man - how about we complicate things by declaring Adamu, a Tea vendor earning less than N20,000 a very rich man? For us to go down this short journey, we must review our understanding of being Poor and being an Illiterate. The context of "Poor" here is not limited to poverty, but having insufficient resources to meet a need; meanwhile "Illiterate" transcends academia, but extends to the inability to advance and stay on a bleeding edge. There are two questions I always throw at people when I deal with the issues of creativity. The questions will be answered with respect to this article, but before then, here are the questions: If you suddenly wake up today and find yourself in one of the poorest villages in the World, what do you have to offer? If you suddenly wake up today and find yourself in one of the most technologically advanced (or literate) city in the World, what do you have to offer? Before procee...
Just to chip in a bit, I'm also the No. 1 C++ Dev (in terms of score) for the region. If you don't know much about Stackoverflow, you may want to Read My Stackoverflow story . Stackoverflow is the world's largest resource of answers to questions most software developers have encountered and will probably encounter. Disclaimer: This is by no means a true representation of facts. I must unequivocally state that there are other programmers better than myself in West Africa. You'll find out at the end of this post. This post is based from a metric obtained from Stackoverflow's Data explorer as of 28th May, 2017. And as every record, it will be broken in no time. Neither do I intend to dedicate any efforts to maintain the position, I've got better things doing. :-). But I think its not bad to brag about it after finding out. Some time this year, I became the legendary 355th Gold badge earner in C++. Being 355th Gold Badge earner meant that I was the 355t...