The journey of a budding programmer or developer into the domain of software and information technology is quite an interesting one. The path has stayed more or less consistent for a long time. But just as the market tends to evolve, so do the organizational demands, which consequently end up affecting academia as well as certain ladders of programming excellence that one is expected to scale. For nearly a decade, knowing how to program in C was considered the basic level of programming knowledge one should attain. However, the bar has risen since then.