• @[email protected]
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    9917 hours 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 🇺🇦
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      11817 hours 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.

      • @spamfajitas
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        1315 hours ago

        My undergrad program had us write Java code by hand for some beginning assignments and exams. The TAs would then type whatever we wrote into Eclipse and see if it ran. They usually graded pretty leniently, though.

        • @ByteJunk
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          510 hours ago

          There’s nobody out there writing “commercial” code in notepad. It’s the concepts that matter, not the spelling, so if OP got a solid grasp on those from using GPT, he’ll probably make it just fine

    • @[email protected]
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      2914 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        27 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        712 hours 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

    • @[email protected]
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      315 hours 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.