Another jeet story from a friend I got (different friend from the one I mentioned earlier in this thread):
Friend is doing some computer science lab related to hashing algorithms: using a large array, create a dictionary by using a hashing algorithm with a word as the input, then in the the ouput index, put a definition; report how many clashes were produced (how many times algorithm produced same index for different words)
Friend had already finished and turned in lab day it was assigned, and was basically done for the next week. The day it's due (like a few hours before final submission), Pooja in lecture class who is also in the same lab asks friend for help; she couldn't figure out why her program reported no clashes (which given the size of the word list, made no sense)
Turns out (from what my friend remembers) she didn't use an array; she didn't even use a hashing algorithm; instead, she used a vector and just did push_back for each word+definition (basically making a long list that is unsearchable and fails the dictionary part) and she didn't understand that no hashing algoritgm means no clashes
She screwed it up so bad that while my friend could help, he would have basically have had to do her project for her in a few hours, which was not happening. Instead he just said something like, "Yeah, I'm not sure what's wrong; probably fine though." Pooja probably didn't do so hot on that lab.
Friend was also telling me about how Pooja would complain about how "bad" the lecture professor was, saying something like, "He never teaches us anything, these questions are bullshit!" after quizzes/tests, even though in friend's opinion, the professor was quite good. In my friend's words, "Maybe if she actually paid attention and didn't waste the lecture away on her phone, she would do better in the class"
