Who is the Yoda of India’s programming yoddhhas? Let us C.

Yashavant Kanetkar

Synopsis
Learning by making mistakes is the favourite teaching style of one of India’s top coding mentors. This is in refreshing contrast to the formal educational system, wherein one is taught to get the right answer without any room for error. That’s what makes him the go-to programming guru not only in India but also in several other countries.

Let’s begin this with a simple question. Which contemporary Indian book (copyrighted, mind you) has sold the maximum number of copies ever in the country? Well, one may be tempted to mention the Ramayana, Mahabharata, or Bhagavad Gita. But these are civilisational treasures and no single author has a claim over them. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s The Discovery of India is a potential candidate, but it was published many years ago, and hence doesn’t