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[–] GlitzyArmrest 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Maybe I'm the weird one here, but even in college I never had to PHYSICALLY WRITE code.

[–] 3ntranced 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man, my CS Final freshman year we had to write like a three page script by hand, and you'd get points off for margin spacing. On fucking paper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same here. Professor was an absolute clown too, his example HTML boilerplate for some project we had to do had © 1996 professor dipshit This was early 2010s. He also took points off my midterm one semester for not surrounding my JS with comment tags since, otherwise it wouldn't run on Netscape"

[–] GlitzyArmrest 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WTF! Like, I understand not allowing IDEs or anything with syntax highlighting for an exam. But can't that be accomplished by just using something like notepad on a kiosk computer made for testing?

[–] 3ntranced 1 points 1 year ago

That would require effort and planning on the professors end! This was a big 10 school too, shows where the money is spent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had job interviews where I had to hand-write a basic cms with no Internet access. With my handwriting that's not good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait… a cms for an interview is already ridiculous, but hand written? That’s just stupid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it wasn't fun!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I whiteboard my pseudocode, but that doesn't use brackets.

[–] wolre 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had a few where it was here's a block of code debug it. The others were just write algorithms in in a intelligible fashion.