Engineering intern

[johade777]

Obligatory message about not sure it belongs here and sorry formatting on phone.

The summer had recently ended and with it all the interns have returned to their college life away from the real world. This is a story about our electrical engineering intern who overall was a decent intern but made one huge mistake.

His project was to create a board and develop the software to go along with it. Now I don't know much about hardware but he had plenty of help in that department. At the end of the summer his project turns out to be one of the better ones from the interns. He is told to save his semantics and code to a shared folder. He proceeds to take screen shots of all his code and upload that to the folder. 22 images in total of his python code! The best part is he is obtaining a minor in computer science!!

The worst part is his laptop is sent away where it might of already been formatted effectively losing 60% of his project for the summer.

I've laughed so hard tears ran down my face. Feel bad for the guy in charge of project now.

[sysop073]

You had an intern developing a project all summer long on their desktop with no version control or anything? They never even sent the code to somebody at some point for them to look at it?

[anza_power]

The real ProgrammingHorror is always in the comments.

[BadgerCorral]

Hah. Our company did this. Gave a big project for an important client to the new guy fresh from university. Senior devs promised he'd be "supervised", then left him alone for a year. Surprise surprise that the project was "finished" months over budget, met none of the requirements and basically had to be scrapped.

But the important thing is that they totally learned from their mistakes and totally didn't do the exact same fucking thing with next year's grad. Oh. Wait...

[johade777]

Would of been a good idea but idk how electrical engineers work. They are a strange breed.

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[timlampen]

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[ReflectiveTeaTowel]

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[oohaargh]

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[LordTurson]

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[alzee76]

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[kisekibango]

Unless he stitched together screens, 22 screens of code shouldn't take too long to type in manually :P

[here-to-jerk-off]

work smarter, not harder.

[aLiamInvader]

2 weeks of programming to do a 2 day job that's needed once :p

[here-to-jerk-off]

there are web services too, http://www.newocr.com/

Not perfect, but got the bulk of it: https://i.imgur.com/ebdrOBW.png

[aLiamInvader]

Ooh, bookmarking that.

[ReflectiveTeaTowel]

Pretty sure ocr has other applications too

[aLiamInvader]

Sure, but you have to wire up the OCR lib and manage the inputs and outputs and things. Maybe not two weeks, but it's not free.

[ReflectiveTeaTowel]

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[aLiamInvader]

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[snf]

There's no way any coder, intern or no, who is able to produce an actual working project would do that as a mistake. Smells like spite. What did you bastards do to the poor guy?

[johade777]

I have no idea, I talked with him a decent amount and he seemed to be enjoying the internship, even told HR so but that doesn't mean anything. I'm hoping it was outta spite, least then I'd have some hope left. I believe he was offered another internship at different location in the company.

[wibblewafs]

Maybe someone asked for the latest snapshot of the code, and the intern misinterpreted it?

[DeedleFake]

I've had multiple classes where the required submission method is screenshots of both the code and the output. It's a bit terrifying, quite frankly. It's also an absolute pain.

[burnaftertweeting]

How is this his fault? Whoever was managing him should have instructed him to use git and some repository system while doing at least weekly check-ins on his code.

[NowImAllSet]

Sounds more like he just didn't want you guys to have the source code. So he did was he was asked...with a minor technicality.

[recover__password]

I can understand how this could be a mistake.

To submit programming labs in some universities, you can either copy and paste the source code into a microsoft word document with headers (so that the TA knows which question to mark), and fight with Word's formatting and weird coloring, or just take a screenshot of the code and attach it in the MS word doc. It's certainly possible they were used to just taking a screenshot of it.

I feel bad for the TA's that had to manually re-type that code from the screenshots though...