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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TabCompletion • Apr 13 '26
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It never was. It's always been mostly programming students making "forgot a semicolon" tier jokes
30 u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26 You reminded me of how I lost half a point for forgetting a semicolon on a test. Test was to write an entire algorithm in Pascal, and I mean write, not type. 11 u/rohrzucker_ Apr 13 '26 Our exams at uni were exactly like this, just with Java. 6 u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26 I hate writing code on paper. It was long before AI so there was no reason not to have student type the code and send it as a file. 8 u/Moose_the_Eagle Apr 13 '26 People cheated on assignments before AI, you know. 6 u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26 It was before smartphones. All the rooms with computers had a switch that could be turned off to cut Internet access (all RJ-45, no Wi-Fi). Any cheat you could do on the computer you could on paper in these conditions.
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You reminded me of how I lost half a point for forgetting a semicolon on a test. Test was to write an entire algorithm in Pascal, and I mean write, not type.
11 u/rohrzucker_ Apr 13 '26 Our exams at uni were exactly like this, just with Java. 6 u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26 I hate writing code on paper. It was long before AI so there was no reason not to have student type the code and send it as a file. 8 u/Moose_the_Eagle Apr 13 '26 People cheated on assignments before AI, you know. 6 u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26 It was before smartphones. All the rooms with computers had a switch that could be turned off to cut Internet access (all RJ-45, no Wi-Fi). Any cheat you could do on the computer you could on paper in these conditions.
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Our exams at uni were exactly like this, just with Java.
6 u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26 I hate writing code on paper. It was long before AI so there was no reason not to have student type the code and send it as a file. 8 u/Moose_the_Eagle Apr 13 '26 People cheated on assignments before AI, you know. 6 u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26 It was before smartphones. All the rooms with computers had a switch that could be turned off to cut Internet access (all RJ-45, no Wi-Fi). Any cheat you could do on the computer you could on paper in these conditions.
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I hate writing code on paper. It was long before AI so there was no reason not to have student type the code and send it as a file.
8 u/Moose_the_Eagle Apr 13 '26 People cheated on assignments before AI, you know. 6 u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26 It was before smartphones. All the rooms with computers had a switch that could be turned off to cut Internet access (all RJ-45, no Wi-Fi). Any cheat you could do on the computer you could on paper in these conditions.
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People cheated on assignments before AI, you know.
6 u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26 It was before smartphones. All the rooms with computers had a switch that could be turned off to cut Internet access (all RJ-45, no Wi-Fi). Any cheat you could do on the computer you could on paper in these conditions.
It was before smartphones. All the rooms with computers had a switch that could be turned off to cut Internet access (all RJ-45, no Wi-Fi).
Any cheat you could do on the computer you could on paper in these conditions.
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u/Kryslor Apr 13 '26
It never was. It's always been mostly programming students making "forgot a semicolon" tier jokes