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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

Open the browser in one VM. Open chatgpt in another VM.

[–] RaoulDook 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unless they're being physically watched or had their phone sequestered away, they could just pull it up on a phone browser and type it out into the computer. But if they want to be a programmer they really should learn how to code.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Been a TA when chatGPT was released. Most students shot their own foot this way before we figured what was happening. Grades went from bell shaped to U shaped. A few students got 85+, the rest failed, it was brutal. Thought I failed my students horribly before I found out it was happening in all classes.

If you actually stuck in such a situation, solve as many problems as you can. An approach that will work for most people:

  1. Try to solve
  2. Fail
  3. Take a peek, understand your failure. If the peek didn't include full solution, go back to step 1. Else continue to step 4.
  4. Move to the next question and go back to step 1.

Make sure to skip questions if they are too easy. Evey 4~ hours take a 20 minutes nap (not longer than 25 minutes). If you actually manage to solve enough problems to pass, go to sleep, 4.5 hours or a longer multiplier of 1.5 hours.

After the exam go back and solve all homework yourself. DO NOT cram it, spread it or you will retain nothing long term.

Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Any competent modern IDE or compiler will help you find syntax mistakes. Knowing the concepts is way more important.

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[–] PlantDadManGuy 6 points 4 days ago

I mean at this point just commit to the fraud and pay someone who actually knows how to code to take your exam for you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I remember so little from my studies I do tend to wonder if it would really have cheating to… er… cheat. Higher education was like this horrendous ordeal where I had to perform insane memorisation tasks between binge drinking, and all so I could get my foot in the door as a dev and then start learning real skills on the job (e.g. “agile” didn’t even exist yet then, only XP. Build servers and source control were in their infancy. Unit tests the distant dreams of a madman.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Why do they even care? it's not like your future bosses are going to give a flying fuck how you get your code. at least, they won't until you cause the machine uprising or something.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

run it in a vm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

virtual machine

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