Monthly Archives: August 2004

Answer these if you dare!!!

1)What is DoCoMo?What relation does it have with imode? (2)

2)How much cache does intel extreme edition have(only l2 and l3)? (2)

3)Who is John T Chambers?How can you relate Gordon Moore to Jerry Sanders in respect to business/academics except that their companies are rivals? (2)

4)Who is the chief programmer of id software and who is the ceo?In what other way the chief programmer related to the company? (2)

5)What is Dark Matter?What do you do with a wumpus? (2)

For quizers

A Decryption Challenge

This cipher uses a common key for encryption and decryption which is kept secret and is known to only the sender and reciever of the message.

The following is the cipher text encrypted using the key “vigilance”

“hmkb xe bp xpmylly rxiiqto lt fgzzv”

This when decrypted reads

“meet me on tuesday evening at seven”

So the challenge is to decrypt the following text which has also been encrypted using the key “vigilance”

“opoa nicjim qy kllygh vtvplbrv gdxnmc aaf ava sioe oa pzeoa naeqp”

Best of Luck!

Abhijit

MINET 2004 (Two programmers’ nightmare)

“Well I think this will work”

{The program is executed [ALT]+[F9] and when prompted 825 is entered}

(0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)

“YES!! Now we need a for loop to do the same for all numbers from 2 till the number entered”

{For loop added and again [ALT]+[F9], 5 is entered}

(Division Error)

“What! How can we have a division error, lets check”

{For loop is made a comment, and again [ALT]+[F9] then 825 is entered}

(0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2636)

“What the hell is this?? From where did that number come from?? lets recheck”

{Execued again and 825 is entered}

(0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -16)

“That is impossible!! I think we should check where the program is going wrong”

{A cout< < command is added in the first loop, execued again and 825 is entered}
(0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)

“Finally! We again have the right output”

{Comment from for loop is removed, execued again and 5 is entered}

(Division Error)

“Oh no! not again, lets put more cout< < statements"

{cout< < is added in the nested loops, executed again, 5 is entered}
(3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)

“How can a cout< < statement solve a division error??"

Key:-

” ” – Our thoughts

{ } – Narration

( ) – Computer output

Those who have sympathy with us please post your comment.

Those who want to try the questions can get it here.

We have tried our best to copy the question paper exactly (including spaces, font etc.) in case some error creeps in, we apologise.

PRATEEK RUNGTA and SOUVIK DAS GUPTA

Class X Computer Quiz

I think the best dates are:

Next Monday for the Prelims.

Next Wednesday for the Finals.

This week, the appointed team* will make announcements in all the sections of Class X and collect names (3 people in a team from each section) by Thursday.

The Appointed Team

The team will be headed by Gursartaj Singh Nijjar. Dhruv, Abhishek are next in command. All members of Class VIII and Class IX are required to help in organizing the Quiz if asked to do so by them. The team will be required to:

  1. Collect Names by Thursday
  2. Talk to Manisha Ma’am (Suri knows her) and get the AVH booked for Next Wednesday

We’ll take care of preparing the questions.

–Karan

GenEx 2004 Computer Fest at Army Public School

The events are:

  1. Senior Programming (XI, XII) – 1 team, 2 members
  2. Quiz (IX-XII) – 1 team, 2 members
  3. Web Designing (IX, X), – 1 team, 2 members
  4. Point Presentation (VI-VIII) – 1 team, 2 members

All events are on the spot.

Judging criteria for Web D

  • Design
  • Graphics
  • Content
  • Aesthetic Appeal
  • Features
  • Ease-of-use

The Dates:

Last date for submitting names: 18th August 2004

The competition takes place on: 27th August 2004

–Karan

Sessions@Exun : Advanced PHP by Mukul Sabharwal

Hello,

Once again. I invite you to another session of PHP. As usual everybody is welcome … but with a few prerequisites : simple programming knowledge + basic PHP syntax which we covered last time in the session.

Sessions@Exun Website has a slightly more refined version of the above text.

The tentative date is 13th August, this coming friday. We’ll work with time conflicts, but this day seems perfect. Let’s stick to it if we can.

The scheduled time is 1PM. We’d like to wrap up early, so we start early.

However, comment to tell us your problems.

Thanks,

Mukul

P.S. – string Advanced; Advanced = “Basic PHP … beyond syntax”;

An Appeal

This is an appeal from the junior coordinator of EXUN

It has come to my notice that several exun members loiter around in the eGurucool Lab without any reason

I would like to request these people to please not to waste time in the lab unless you have a reason or if u have been called.

Also, I would also like to ask the president to look into the matter and see what best can be done

This entry specially refers to the juniors i.e. 9thies and 8thies who are constantly seen in the lab when they have any free period

Quiz at MIS, and others

I don’t know the programming results yet, but we won the Quiz, came third in Crossword and Web Designing and second in Gaming. I will be posting all the Quiz finals questions but first…

Intersection Quiz for Class X

Exun has to organize an Intersection Computer Quiz for Class X next week, this week is preparing time. Now, the Class X Exun members (according to Manisha Ma’am and Mukesh Sir) cannot take part because they are the ones who will be organizing the Quiz. So, right now these are: Gursartaj Singh, Dhruv Kumar, Abhishek Suri and Mohit Taneja. Abhisheyk Gaur, Karan Misra (me) and Maanick Nangia will help in making the questions for this event. Manas Gautam (IX) has agreed to help in the organization of the quiz.

So, let’s see, this week is preparing time, and next to next week we have to do the Quiz on either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Tomorrow, we shall prepare the plan of action. Members whose names have been mentioned please take note and meet in the eGurucool Lab in the Break tomorrow.

–Karan

Columban Open Quiz 2004

Today was the big day, The Columban Open Quiz Finals. The Columban Open Quiz, this year for us , had been great. In the prelims,we came first, thanks to some computer related questions which came , which Karan had earlier asked me. In The quarters and the semis, we had the same result,1st. We had obviously shocked everyone, as no one had expected a team like ours(comprising of me, Ishaan, Aakash,Akshat), to reach the finals with a continuous winning streak.But today , disappointed befalled on us , as we couldn’t even manage to get in the first three.We came fifth, ahead of Bhavya’s team but behind ‘DADA KI ARMY’ , another DPS RKP team, which came 2nd. But I think it was quite a good experience, as I am quite young and reached so far ,and I encourage EXUN members to particiapte in this quiz as it consists of many many computer related questions, ought to come in Computer Quizzes.eg:- We were asked

‘ Which country’s domain name is .ch’ and ‘.pt’ and what does Error 405 signify etc.