Yeah, and forget about giving skeleton code to students they should fill in; using an AI can quite frequently completely ace a typical undergraduate level assignment. I actually feel bad for people teaching programming courses, as the only real assessment one can now do is in-class testing without computers, but that is a strange way to test students’ ability to write and develop code to solve certain classes of problems…
Hopefully someone is thinking about adapting the assessments. Asking questions that focus on a big picture understanding instead of details on those in-class tests.
Re:How University Students Use Claude
by i_am_proteus on Thursday April 10, 2025 @03:29AM
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Why do the in-class testing without computers?
We use an airgapped lab (it has LAN and a local git server for submissions, no WAN) to give coding assessments. It works.
Re:How University Students Use Claude
by chipsrafferty on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:24AM
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At my college, we did in-class testing with psuedocode, because we were being tested on concepts, not specific programming languages or syntax.
Sure. Works in my IDE. "Create a linked list implementation, use that implementation in a method to reverse a linked list and write example code to demonstrate usage".
Working code in a few seconds.
I'm very glad I didn't have access to anything like that when I was doing my CS degree.