Sorry, you are giving the wrong lessons.

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: !!!

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Comments

  1. Its me14 January 2009 at 22:57

    “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)

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  2. Vayanakkaran15 January 2009 at 06:37

    Awesome!
    Had a good laugh..
    And the third one.. Terrific!

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  3. balagopal15 January 2009 at 10:36

    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

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  4. Vivek15 January 2009 at 13:31

    @ 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.

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  5. Rema17 January 2009 at 10:28

    good one!
    Friend3 – For this you are responsible since you tried to teach him something.

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  6. Vivek19 January 2009 at 12:51

    @Rema
    You have a point there… maybe I should have started with ‘m’

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  7. renjith19 January 2009 at 15:41

    This is just to inform all others that vivekettan is the M-Tech topper in CSA.
    (he is yet to give me the treat).

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  8. Vivek20 January 2009 at 16:10

    @ renjith…
    Done.. You are going to get a treat for sure, buddy.

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  9. Himanshu8 March 2009 at 12:34

    I am still confused…. Isn’t the correct answer “world”?

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  10. Vivek8 March 2009 at 14:50

    @ 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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