MAN I hate programming exams...

[Ness]

Why is it that programming professors have paper/written exams? I mean, do they not realize that people do better at coding when they can work it out rather than just putting pen to paper? Come on.


Oh yeah, I'm in the middle of my final for my C++ Exam. The funny thing is, the class is "C++ Programming", but we haven't even touched C++. It's all C. It made me kinda mad because I needed a filler class (I'm actually a computer graphics major) and I already knew C++. I didn't wanna have to spend time learning something The only good thing about this class is that the coding portion of the test is open book/open notes/open anything. So I can use the 'net for help


Edit: Figures only an ATOT addict would be here while they are supposed to be taking an exam

 

[KingNothing]

If the coding portion is open anything, what are you complaining about? All of my programming tests involve writing code on paper with a pencil.

 

[Feldenak]

Yeah, I'm no fan of exams in programming classes. I can get 'A's on the programs/assignments and end up getting mid-'B's on the exams.

 

[gopunk]

i dunno the programs they have you write are usually so simple that if you know what you're doing, it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
If the coding portion is open anything, what are you complaining about? All of my programming tests involve writing code on paper with a pencil.

Well, it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass if we had to write programs, but we have to write snipets of programs and it's too much work to create 15 different programs for 15 different questions just to make sure that the code works.

 

[wetobasura]

my VB class this semester is all done on the computer and is open note, and open book.

 

[IcemanJer]

so what stops you from typing the code out, compile it to make sure it's correct, and then hand it in?

edit: heh... just a little bit too late...

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: wetobasura
my VB class this semester is all done on the computer and is open note, and open book.

My C class was like that.

 

[dighn]

coding on paper = teh sux0rs - make a small mistake (which isn't all that unlikely given the pressure of exams), massive erasing needed.

 

[brtspears2]

Coding in paper, bad idea. I always forget mudane details, which leads to a point here, a point here, and a final grade of a C.

 

[CanOWorms]

The entire test is writing down code? Or does it also include concepts?

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Coding in paper, bad idea. I always forget mudane details, which leads to a point here, a point here, and a final grade of a C.

do you mean syntax? over here we don't usually take off points if it's something small like forgetting a closing parenthesis. if, by "mundane", you meant something like the base case in a recursive function or the loop conditional, yea, we take off points for that.

 

[Kev]

base case in a recursive function or the loop conditional

wow what an impressive arrangement of words

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
The entire test is writing down code? Or does it also include concepts?

There is one portion that is concepts, worth 20%, that part is closed book/notes/etc.

The coding portion is obviously the other 80%.

 

[EyeMWing]

I forgot to include an entire method in the exam for the first .5 credits in the 2 HS credit AP Comp Sci (Read: Java programming) course. I lost muchos puntos. My preferred coding method is to write it all out - then click compile and wait for it to spit out all my capitalization, spelling, and missing semicolon errors.

The guy next to me and I are always joking about how we should write somthing that will insert all the semicolons into my programs for me - because my god I can never remember them at the end of a mathematical operation (But I always remember them after calls. It's weird)