Practical of TE comp

SPL
    Most of us TEs would have heard about the professor who came as the external for the SPL (signal processing lab) viva. Well, here's a first person account of the same.
    Day 1, scheduled to start at 9.00am, the dude walks in at 12.30. Till then, almost everyone was bored to the core. Whatever excitement or anticipation that the students had for the first viva of their engineering career, it had all but evaporated by then. Meanwhile, people outside, who had their exams the same day, were hungry to know how the first batches fared. We were making fun of them... until it was time, finally. Whatever happened next, was in no way, even close to fun.
    He started taking close to half an hour for each set (2 students). His prime target was the files we make for our assignments. Everyone knows how we write files, so did he; and he wished to exploit it. He would scrutinise each and every page until he finds a mistake, and then either your file is in the air, or broken into pieces. Our internal supervisor, next day, tried to save few batches by taking their orals before he came. Some respite. Overall, about 30-40% boys (yes, gender specific) were asked to come again next time. And girls !, well, what to say, he was a totally different person to them. All goody, goody. Oh! God bless him.

RVPL
    This was supposed to be the easiest practical ever for me, till i found out that maximum atkts were in this prac so far. Wonder why, it's so easy! First day, first batch, only 3 students were able to produce complete output, and i thought, yes, its is going to kill the students next day. The practice of asking other people about their practicals never helps, believe me. The pattern of TE practicals changes so fast, also, day 2 did not have any questions which were there on day 1. All you could get from students of day 1 was the answer to the question 'Are they giving change', and it was in a negative.

HL
    By far, the easiest. People were getting changes if they asked, and most did. Even if they aren't able to perform, the internal is generous enough to pass most of them, if one has written some relevant code, which may not even work! 20 is good, if you are not able to compile or even remove errors

Last words, had the first viva of my life, and it was hell. There are most next semester, and this time, the assignment files are going to look better than this time. Lesson of the day, presentation matters a lot.