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Re:Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine by xandrius on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @02:59PM (#44109741)
The professor is not actually compiling your code, the idea is to know whether you can pseudo code a solution, of course.
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Re:Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine by squigz on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @07:34PM (#44111561)
> if it had one single error (missed semicolon) or didn't compile for some reason, the whole thing was considered wrong

From GP

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Re:Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine by const_cast on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:15AM (#44123569)
That's exceedingly rare I imagine, and stupid.

I had to hand-write 90% of my programming exams. Nobody cared about semicolons, they cared if your algorithm worked. You didn't even really need to program in C, just something that looked close enough.

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