Students' stories using C++ keywords

Every programming language has its own set of keywords. Here are stories written by students at BCRS, Tiruvalla, woven around C++ keywords.

An Alien’s Journey
(Adithya Krishnan - 31 keywords)

One day, my alien friend whose name is asm was travelling in space. He had given the destination co-ordinates by default into planet X. His space ship was in auto mode. It was registerd according to spaceship laws to the SLO (Space Lanes Organization). During the journey, he was playing his virtual game and lost control of the ship’s console. He forgot to switch off the excess fuel pump and ran out of fuel. He had no money to catch a space bus. Now, he was not able to continue his long journey.

But because he was travelling through the inline space expressway, he was able to get help from space police. They took him to the union of publicaffairs. There, the case of his ship was assigned to an operator. Although he was short, asm was a smart guy. After an external examination, he found that the fuel was lost due to some other reason. So, the alien signed a private agreement with the operator to break the body of the space ship and try to fix the defect, The operator had no idea what to do. So, he decided to throw all the things outside.

Now, asm felt he shouldn’t have signed this agreement. He looked for ways to get the agreement unsigned.  At last, the ship was scrapped to its steel structure. The union decided to use the protected funds to build him a new ship of ordinary class, which could float, with the sizeof an appropriate one. The earlier volatile power source was replaced by a static one. They used a reliable template and at last, asm was able to resume his journey through the void of space.

Fake Friends
(Richie Mathew - 20 keywords)

Once upon a time, there was a boy, Akshay Shaji Mathew, who was nicknamed asm. He studied in class VIII and went to a new private school,while his parents lived in the Gulf. At school, he made many fresh acquaintances and friends. They would go to school and return together. Unfortunately, these friends had some bad habits like drinking and smoking. asm’s friends signed a letter that made it appear that his parents had given permission to take leave. With the attendance register taken care of, the friends could take as long a break as they wished and do it when they wanted to. They continued doing this for a couple of years.

Finally, asm began to have trouble breathing. He was detected with lung cancer. The sizeof his lungs had ballooned. asm automatically began to weaken. He would try to quit, but couldn’t switch from it. In a short span of time, he died. When the news became public, the entire community was shocked. Asm’s story has a moral for us, if we have bad company or bad habits.

Spooky

(Ajay Reji - 16  keywords)

This is a narration of what happened to me when I was 14 years old. My family consists of my father, mother, brother and me. My dad is a professor, who teachers about the structure of the heart at a nearby University. My mom is a general nurse. At that time, my brother was 20 years old and was returning from college. I used to goto school in a private car, whose driver was a friend of my dad’s. We were contemplating moving to a new home. The location was a little isolated. When we reached the house, I found the place a little mysterious.

At night, while everyone else was sleeping, I heard a creaking noise for a few seconds. I was instantly alert, because I felt someone was breaking into our house. I switched on the lights and went down to check on the source of the noise. However, I could find no one. So I went back to sleep. Next day, when we were watching TV, the dish got broken. We called the dish operator and the TV was repaired.

When I switched on my computer, I saw that some files contained horror videos. I deleted them. The next day, I had class and when I came home, I found that my parents were not at home. They had left a note saying that they would return at night. Suddenly, I felt far from the protected person I usually felt. While studying, the lights went off. I thought I heard someone at the door. When I went to catch him, I could find no one else outside. I became scared and within a short while I ran in. While trying to shut the door, I heard my parents’ car drive in. Boy was I relieved!! I told them about my experience. We all had a good laugh.

JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE...

(Saurabh Sunil - 18 keywords)

It was another boring assembly at school. John looked at the asm (Assistant School Master), who was also yawning. After what felt like ages, assembly finally got over and everyone had to goto their classes.

The Maths teacher entered class and asked them to open their books to chapter 7 and solve problem 14. As the teacher taught, John was more interested in other things. His friend, Allen asked him if he had heard of this cool new gadget known as the virtual reality visor. Allen had tried it the previous day and it was so cool. Suddenly, the teacher spotted them talking and marched them off to the principal.

After a long sermon from the Principal, they were finally allowed to continue class. After lunch break, the Physics teacher floated into class. John did not find the subject interesting and dozed off. The next thing he knew, the teacher had returned with a cane and gave him a sound thrashing. A short while later, came the Chemistry teacher. He demanded to see if their test papers had been signed by their parents. John hadn’t got the sign. So, he took his punishment (another thrashing) very sportingly. Yep, he could take anything that life would throw at him. Now, it was beginning to feel like an eventful and normal day in John’s school life. When John reached home, his mother asked him, “Hi honey! How was school?”. “Well, it was certainly better than usual,” John replied enthusiastically.

LOST IN THE WORLD OF GAMES
(Manuel Johnson – 19 keywords)

Ram was a very smart and short boy who studied in class XII. He was crazy about virtual games. As his birthday gift, his friend Romano had gifted him a new game called “Dragon Killer”. Ram switched on his laptop and entered typedef as password on his protected laptop. He installed the game and he decided to try it. Ram registered himself and logged into the game. The game was about a princess – Mary, who had been kidnapped and made static by a 2-headed dragon. The player had to rescue Mary after pressing the continue button.

Ram was filled with a volatile spirit of excitement. He overcame some obstacles and reached the castle. The infrastructure and sizeof the castle amazed him. The castle was locked by a big door. Ram fought a number of magical creatures opened the door automatically. When he entered the castle the interior looked void. The reason was that there were no paintings or caricatures like other castles.

Ram heard a loud cry of the dragon from atop the castle. He headed towards the top of the castle and hid behind a pillar. It didn’t take him long to spot the imprisoned princess and the mighty dragon flying around her. Ram shot arrows at both heads of the dragon. The arrows pierced the dragon’s head and it was thrown out of the castle and died. Ram realized that the game was over. But he wanted to continue. He wanted to talk to the princess and make her his friend. He felt helpless, because he had no way of doing so.

Ram understood why his parents told him not to play virtual games. He also came to know that if we regularly play virtual games, our minds will not catch any other things. Ram resigned the game and found real games to engage in. Whenever he felt bored he would play physical games for physical and mental relaxation.

A  SEA  DREAM…

Sebin Thomas (10 keywords)

It was a sunny day Christmas day. I had planned to goto a strange island named asm on a voyage. It was going to be a new experience for me. My best friend Jack was with me. Our ship was named enum. The structure of the ship was quite interesting. It had a long mast with boom, and a short stern with bow, cockpit, rudder and cabin. It also had dual auto engine. Before starting to travel, we had to sign our names in the captain’s register. And finally, we started our journey.

Real friends

Joel Eapen (14 keywords)

It was school re-opening day and I was late. So, my mom told me to catch an auto or else I would not reach on time. I went to the junction, to try for an auto. I saw a friend of mine and we were late by 15 min. We walked swiftly to the school. I suddenly looked into the register to find class. As I went to the class, I saw a short stout woman. I guessed it was our class teacher and I asked her whether I could enter. She told me to stay out and continued her class. One of my friends grinned at me  constantly and he was thrown out of the class at once. We both stood for a long time until the bell rang for the break. 

Filling the void

(Jemima - 13 keywords)

A famous lawyer John Mathew was taking a break in the middle of a case. He started thinking about the past years and how the years of work had made him try out new things in life. He realized how he needed to stay fresh and not stressed out. That is how he came to own this beautiful private and extremely protected house. He sighed contentedly. Although his good luck had been quite a good catch by default, he managed to stay afloat through difficult waters. Right now, all he needed was for his best friend to come and stay for a while to fill the void.

The lost eye

(Joel Johnson – 14 keywords)

Once, there lived a mother and her son, Som. Som had lost his father and sister in an accident, many years earlier. Som’s mother was very loving. She would do anything for Som. However, in Som’s eyes, she had one great blemish, she was one-eyed. While at college, some friends from Som’s class came to his home. They teased Som because of his mother’s appearance. Som’s character began to change. He started behaving rudely with his mother. Som wanted to leave home and goto his uncle’s house to stay. He deleted all her snaps from his social networking sites.

The story continues after a break of a few years. Som had become a well-to-do businessman. One day, he was invited for a college reunion. So, he took a short leave from work. On the way, he bumped into his mother. He was not sure if he wanted to greet her. When he could not avoid her, he told her about his college reunion and asked her not to follow him there. She told him that she wished to talk to him, but he refused. She was not able to catch his attention even for a few seconds. While she was standing there, she met with an accident. At the college, there was a public function. On returning from college, Som saw a large gathering on the road. Some people were carrying Som’s mother to her funeral. Som saw a letter in her hand. The letter revealed the truth about Som’s life – how he had lost sight in one eye and how his mother had donated her eye to him. After reading this letter, Som was dumb-struck.

Moral: It’s good to live in the present, but we should also look into the past.

MY FRIEND

Tarun N. George (31 keywords)

It was my birthday. A new looking auto pulled up inline with my gate while I was trying to throw on some clothes to goto my class. I had to break a wall between me and this volatile friend of mine. His structure was rather short or at least shorter than me because I am rather long. My friend is such a peculiar case.  He grew up protected, without any interaction with the external world and the public. Therefore, his character was really annoying. The problem was that we had registered ourselves and signed the agreement to buy a virtual reality game called “enumerate” from the union of virtual games for my birthday. The sizeof it made me rethink my decision. Therefore I went to our operator, talked about it and unsigned myself from the agreement. This angered him and he decided to own it privately and stopped talking to me. So there I was constantly trying to talk to him during class. Unfortunately, our teacher saw me talking and sent me out of class. After some time he asked me to return to class and reminded me not to repeat it.