Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine

Re:Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine by TallonRain on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @05:36PM (#44110855)

Yes, pen and paper. The approach is to pseudocode the solution, minor syntax errors aren’t punished (and indeed are generally expected anyway). The point is to simply show that you understand and can work through the concepts involved, it’s not being literally compiled.

Writing a small algorithm with pen & paper on programming exams in universities of all sizes was still common when I was in uni in the 2010s and there’s no reason to drop that practice now.

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Re:Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine by sshine on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @03:57AM (#44113694)

Small algorithms, sure.

Outside of algorithms courses, the practice has diminishing practicality.

I once had to write a filesystem driver for a code, and it ended up being a little less than a thousand lines of C. I’m happy I didn’t need to do that on paper, it would have had limited value to my learning.

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