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> while getting an A is entirely at the mercy of a subjective grader with no clear grading rubric to distinguish a B+ from an A Huh? This is true in programmin
by methodover 12y ago
> while getting an A is entirely at the mercy of a subjective grader with no clear grading rubric to distinguish a B+ from an A
Huh? This is true in programming too. Getting something to compile can't be all CS professors are looking for, right?
Programming is more about communication than anything else. You can write something a hundred different ways which will all run more or less fine -- but they all won't be equally readable and maintainable.
I didn't get a CS degree, so I don't have experience on the matter. Do CS professors grade for readability at all?
- agorabinary 12y agoCS professors do grade for clarity and not just "does it work/compile?" but as a matter of relative weight in a grading distribution I think it gets less attention, and necessarily so for the more challenging problems. Writing prompts have a simpler objective domain to test (grammar, word usage) so the bulk of the grade weight goes to interpretation and style, which is of course subjective.