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I took one CS class as an undergrad. On those occasions I showed up for class, I sat in the back row and wrote poetry. I think I only turned in one assignment a
by dhosek 5y ago
I took one CS class as an undergrad. On those occasions I showed up for class, I sat in the back row and wrote poetry. I think I only turned in one assignment as well. It was supposed to be a very simple infix calculator with 26 statically allocated variables. I thought that was boring so I ended up creating an algebraic solver that could use dynamically allocated variables of any length as long as they began with a letter and were all alphanumeric. The whole thing was done using cweb. The TA gave me partial credit saying that he couldn't understand any of what the code did (in his defense, the cweave output was 20+ pages long and I think my classmates' programs were all a couple pages of C) but that it appeared to work.
- anyfoo 5y agoDepends on the assignment, and can easily backfire. When I was TA'ing the CS intro class, which in my University was actually using a functional programming language (ML), I received a bunch of "working" programs from students who already knew how to program, but not with functional programming languages. They would force an imperative style into ML, which was not what the assignment was, and kind of showed that they must not have paid attention at all.
- samatman 5y agoWell I can relate to that kind of story, although I got it mostly out of my system by college. I took one CS class as well. I didn't read the syllabus carefully, and thus didn't realize that the lab was 10% of my grade, so I got a final score of 89%. I tried to argue that getting 99% of the rest of the course right should make up for the missing lab work, to no avail. This is how I ended up a chemistry major. Anyway, I think you would get a lot out of this essay. I did at least. http://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html http://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html