• kabi@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    If it’s the first course where they use Java, then one could easily learn it in 21 hours, with time for a full night’s sleep. Unless there’s no code completion and you have to write imports by hand. Then, you’re fucked.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      18 days ago

      If there’s no code completion, I can tell you even people who’s been doing coding as a job for years aren’t going to write it correctly from memory. Because we’re not being paid to memorize this shit, we’re being paid to solve problems optimally.

    • 404@lemmy.zip
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      18 days ago

      My first programming course (in Java) had a pen and paper exam. Minus points if you missed a bracket. :/

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        18 days ago

        I got -30% for not writing comments for my pen and paper java final.

        Somehow it just felt a bit silly to do, I guess

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        17 days ago

        It was the same for the class I took in high school. I remember the teacher saying that its to make sure we actually understand the code we write, since the IDE does some of the work for you.

    • kopasz7@sh.itjust.works
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      18 days ago

      Remember having to use (a modified version of?) quincy for C. Trying to paste anything would put random characters into your file.

      Still beats programming on paper.