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When I took CS101 (Summer 1993) we actually wrote Pascal code on paper for the exams :-)
by ayb 16y ago
When I took CS101 (Summer 1993) we actually wrote Pascal code on paper for the exams :-)
- ramchip 16y agoI think it's rather common, even nowadays. I'm in computer engineering and not CS, but I've had many exams where I had to write C, C++, Java or Matlab on paper (introductory classes, system programming, OOP...). I've seen this posted before as well. Now, the Pascal bit is probably becoming rarer :)
- dkersten 16y agoEh, yeah. The end of semester exams were always on paper. Policy or something. Can't say I much enjoyed drawing UML or writing Java and C++ on paper. The worst was the digital image processing, where we did get to do it in the computer labs (basically, transforming images in matlab, usually fft -> masking, multiplication or some other simple operations -> ifft), but had to sketch the results on paper... This was only couple of years ago! Ugh.
- patrickk 16y agoI've just completed my (non-CS) degree, and for my second year exams (2008!), we had to write C# on paper.