Or how about: stop spoiling students and make them pick up a pencil and write down some damn code. I took tests by hand all my life and even in college I think

Or how about: stop spoiling students and make them pick up a pencil and write down some damn code. I took tests by hand all my life and even in college I think most computer science tests that weren’t “implement this big project” were all done by hand. Professors didn’t give a fuck about fancy test software: bring pencil, bring paper, here’s a test, good luck. Your hand isn’t going to cramp up writing double linked list or binary heap functions. Plus you’re going to have to do this anyway for whiteboard interviews to get your first job. If a CS student can’t do this by hand, then just get out of the field. We do not need more intellectually weak engineers, especially as the amount of money one earns in tech seems to increasingly attract money hungry brogrammers that write shitty code. And I’m sure ChatGPT will empower an entire generation of slackers who think software engineering is just writing the right prompts in plain English.