I have this habit of getting into the nice guy’s suit at times. And a few times when I was in the suit I took the risk of teaching some of my classmates. Remember, these are people who did their bachelors in computer science and has a gate score (>95 percentile). This one was the latest that happened.
Me: Well.. forget about the low and intermediate level representation. Consider the control flow of this high level program.
a = 1
if ( a not equal to 0)
print ‘hello’
else
print ‘world’.
So, what do you think it will print?
Friend 1: world?
Me: WORLD!!!
Friend 1: Hello?
Me: Hmm..
friend 1: Hello World.
I nearly had a nervous breakdown.
Before a few months I happened to overhear one of my classmate trying to make another understand, how important Java is. And all of a sudden I heard the following sentence, which reminded me about Pramode sir’s blog article .
friend 2: Computer Science is JAVA.
Me: ……. …. … so JAVA is a programming language and programming is a part of computer science. You see the difference, don’t you?
friend 2: Yup.. But the biggest part of computer science is Java.
Me: 
Some people never change!
Once I dared to teach someone a bit of complexity analysis. I could not believe that the guy was not joking when he asked such a question.
Me: .. thus the complexity of the algorithm is O(log^2 n). That is a cool proof, right?
friend 3: Yes. But what is the complexity if the input is not n but m?
Me: !!!
“friend 3: Yes. But what is the complexity if the input is not n but m?
Me: !!!”
I feel like I too want to do MTech
( I Promise I won’t ask THIS question again :D)
Ha ha ha so we are still producing Quality Engineers. I though it had stopped with me. BTW, do people Java anymore ? I though C++ was new ‘C’ as apple also have converted all its frameworks in C++.
Awesome!
Had a good laugh..
And the third one.. Terrific!
Incident 1 -> I will never, ever believe it.
Incident 2 -> difference b/w a computer scientist and a jada (oops java) programmer.
Incident 3 -> was that a challi?
>> I have this habit of getting into the nice guy’s suit at times.
seems like you’ve got to do a lot more of that
Check out:
http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/12/10/liberalize-the-indian-education-sector/
@ it’s me
I am happy that i could inject a bit of interest in M-Tech studies into your MBA aspiring brain.
@Chirag
You mean the recruitement officers of the 4 companies you worked were stupid..
BTW, I missed your blog article on change of blog.. and was wondering why you were not updating your blog!
@ Vayanakkaran
Thank you..
@balu
1: I can understand.. but it’s true…
2: Hehe..
3: Look at the link in pramode sir’s comment..
abt the suit.. Even i think so.. but the fact is I looks really odd in that…
@ Pramode sir.
That’s awesome.
good one!
Friend3 – For this you are responsible since you tried to teach him something.
@Rema
This is just to inform all others that vivekettan is the M-Tech topper in CSA.
(he is yet to give me the treat).
@ renjith…
Done.. You are going to get a treat for sure, buddy.
I am still confused…. Isn’t the correct answer “world”?
@ Himanshu aka Heman
Hehe… I also am..
Very happy to know that you read my blog.. Thank you for commenting, buddy..
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