As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check

Re:As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check by tucif on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:56AM (#15099393)

How do you "decide how much partial it is worth" ?

Generally the task is not writing code, it is solving a specific problem and non-compiling code is a non-solution, not a partial one.

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Re:As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check by freshhawk on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:08PM (#15099513)

The same way as you would in every other type of education. If you know what you are doing, it is easy to see how close the student came to getting it right or if they were completely on the wrong track.

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Re:As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check by tucif on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:10PM (#15100229)

couldn't this open the path to approving programming courses without ever handing in compiling code?

What about pseudo code that has the "right logic" but will never compile?

What if I submit python code that works as a c file, should that count?

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Re:As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check by bluGill on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:40PM (#15101556)

I passed a lot of my math and physics courses even though the majority of my proofs were incorrect in some way. I didn't get full credit, but I got enough to get some.

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