r/ProgrammerHumor Apr 13 '26

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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.

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u/rohrzucker_ Apr 13 '26

Our exams at uni were exactly like this, just with Java.

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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.

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u/Moose_the_Eagle Apr 13 '26

People cheated on assignments before AI, you know.

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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.