For those on the other side of linguistic barrier, the title translates to test of truth (lot of "T"s here :D, that was't intentional though). Everybody must have had that moment. Let me share one such moment. It was during my Master's class. Our professor had explained a simple MATLAB program to plot a spline, the equation of which we had manually derived from given condition. To follow up with it, he had given us an assignment which was same problem but different initial condition.
I solved it, my friends too solved it. I did the program too. A simple 10 line code. No big deal. However my friends naively believed that programming is not a required skill set for a mechanical engineer. Hence they never really cared to learn programming. It was the submission time and I had forgot to save my program in cloud. We were all near the class, my friends struggling to complete the program. I helped them and we did it. I thought it was a simple program and frankly there was not many ways to write the same program differently. So I asked them to get me a copy of the same program. We all submitted it.
Next class, all our program red-flagged and we were all charged with group plagiarism. I tried too speak with the Prof that this was too simple a program and I know enough MALAB to write a longer program. However evidence was against me and I was indeed wrong in submitted the same program. In oriental philosophies there is a term called prayaschitta. I had to do something to prove my Prof about my programming abilities. And indeed I did it.
[Legend has it (:P) that Pavanesh sat continuously the whole night programming. The result was a 180+ line code that could directly generate any of the four types of spline that a user selects. It would directly derive the equation from the initial condition input; and no manual calculation was required. That was a month of course work, over night transferred into a program. The Prof was so impressed he asked a copy of the program used it in his later as part of his classes.]
I solved it, my friends too solved it. I did the program too. A simple 10 line code. No big deal. However my friends naively believed that programming is not a required skill set for a mechanical engineer. Hence they never really cared to learn programming. It was the submission time and I had forgot to save my program in cloud. We were all near the class, my friends struggling to complete the program. I helped them and we did it. I thought it was a simple program and frankly there was not many ways to write the same program differently. So I asked them to get me a copy of the same program. We all submitted it.
Next class, all our program red-flagged and we were all charged with group plagiarism. I tried too speak with the Prof that this was too simple a program and I know enough MALAB to write a longer program. However evidence was against me and I was indeed wrong in submitted the same program. In oriental philosophies there is a term called prayaschitta. I had to do something to prove my Prof about my programming abilities. And indeed I did it.
[Legend has it (:P) that Pavanesh sat continuously the whole night programming. The result was a 180+ line code that could directly generate any of the four types of spline that a user selects. It would directly derive the equation from the initial condition input; and no manual calculation was required. That was a month of course work, over night transferred into a program. The Prof was so impressed he asked a copy of the program used it in his later as part of his classes.]
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