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> He backed up his words by allowing googling on the actual coding part of his exams. You had to understand the underlying concepts but you never had to memoriz
by jacques_chester 7y ago
> He backed up his words by allowing googling on the actual coding part of his exams. You had to understand the underlying concepts but you never had to memorize syntax. ... His course and exams were _rigorous_. You could never cram for his class and expect to pass and indeed I know of one student repeatedly failing his course.
When I studied law, all our exams were open book. Bring whatever you want. I brought casebooks and printouts of legislation and important cases. Others also brought headnotes and volumes of Halsbury's (a legal encyclopaedia).
None of this helped if you didn't know the material well enough to identify the legal issues in each question.
Which is why I failed Torts.
- vntx 7y ago> None of this helped if you didn’t know the material well enough to identify the legal issues in each question. My machine learning professor who was from CMU would allow us to put anything we wanted on both sides of one piece of printer paper to bring to exams. No amount of notes helped if you had no understanding of the algorithms and formulas. I almost failed that course too, but it was also one of the cornerstones of my university career. It made me realize how much I had been optimizing for the wrong thing: grades instead of understanding.