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Interested in CS, ended up doing Mech Engg, Worked for of those TCS/Infy type software houses in India.

Anecdote: First year in engineering, we had this computers course, so the lecturer was teaching about input and output devices (Yes they teach this even in engineering). He goes on "Computer pheriperals are either input OR output devices"

One student raised his hand and asked, "Sir, what about the touchscrens like in ATMs ?" (Touchscreen mobiles were not common, yet)

Lecturer goes silent for a minute, and replies "Son, dont try to be oversmart in my class"

-- Just something I saw. Not saying they are that bad everywhere.

6174 16 years ago

i remember writing a qbasic program, in school, to count the number of steps required for a 4-digit number to reach 6174.