Here is something interesting…
Our FRIEND(Hero) WAS chatting with a female – Online chat.
Background both are s/w engineers by the way and both work for real big MNC’s
Hero : Hey…GM (Good Morning)… How’s u doing today?
Female: VGM…Day is going good and it got better having found u on chat
Hero : wow…am honoured, u know what, my day starts only when I find you on Chat
Female: Yep…me too feel the same…Brb (be right back)’ll get some Coffee.
Hero : OK
(Hero waits impatiently. Meanwhile, his manager comes to his seat.)
Manager: Hey, I need some help from you
Hero : [**** This guy always comes at wrong time] Yeah tell me
Manager: Could u write a program for me which generates nth prime number, Given value of n. Would you give this by today evening?
Hero : I would do that, but I think it’s quite hard, is it ok with you,
if I Give it by tomorrow evening.
Manager: Yeah, that would be fine. Thank you [Leaves the place]
(Our hero sighs and stares at his monitor waiting impatiently for Female to Arrive. All of a sudden smiles on his face. Over to chat window…)
Female: Hey, am back
Hero : cool, you know what my manager does, She’s kinda….. keeps asking stupid Things, tries to give me stupid work
Female: Yeah, it’s the same everywhere. Real sick ppl these managers are!!
Hero : Yep, u rite!!
Female: Hey, can u do me a favor
Hero : *smiles* sure, why not.
Female: Hey, I want you to write me a program to print nth prime Number, given N. Would you give that to me by tomorrow evening? Plzzz. You know it’s real Urgent for me to work this out
Hero : hey, that’s a one-hour’s work. Sure check Ur mail in an hour from now. ok?
Female: THIS IS WHAT I ASKED U WHEN I CAME TO YOUR WORK PLACE. NOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM!! AND ONE MORE POINT…. YOUR 1 HOUR TIME STARTS NOW!!
May 6th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Unless you’re dealing with extremely large values of N and need to do a lot of optimization,
there’s no way it would take a competent software engineer professional more than about 15-20
minutes. In fact, I’m surprised that the alleged software engineers haven’t *both* written
such programs as students. Also, it’s trivial to Google it: http://www.google.com/search?q=prime+generator