Re:Repl.it Teams for Education
by 908B64B197 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:37PM
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> he said no because the Intellisense/other smart features may make it easier and I won't be able to use it on the exam. Which is sort of fair I suppose.
The exam's done wrong. Intellisense mostly gives you navigation in a big project (shouldn't need that in a written test) and method name auto-complete.
Remembering it's ToString() and not tostring() or PrintAsString() is pointless. What matters is computational thinking.
> I hope the trend doesn't continue to fully learning college courses in a browser. :/
Some colleges will, for sure. Probably not the good ones.
> Then again, I'm literally in high school hating on the new-fangled tools...
Ever heard of the term "graybeard"? [0]
[0] https://gist.github.com/lenards/3739917#:~:text=Greybeard%20....
My AP teacher mandates the use of BlueJ, I was under the impression it was AP. I asked if I could use another full IDE because the keybinds in BlueJ suck, he said no because the Intellisense/other smart features may make it easier and I won't be able to use it on the exam. Which is sort of fair I suppose.
>Well, if they use Replit, they'd never know they didn't know! And they'd never get a chance to learn to troubleshoot. They'd never learn general computing knowledge. But that's part of my "ecosystem" point.
Very true.
> Students 10 years ago at my school learned Linux, MongoDB (why not? lol), Java, Eclipse, bash, git, etc
That makes me glad that I'm learning with good tools. I hope the trend doesn't continue to fully learning college courses in a browser. :/
Then again, I'm literally in high school hating on the new-fangled tools...