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[Scottly318]

2780 bummer. What subject?

 

[Someone Else 37]

2781 C (i.e. the programming language). It went pretty well.

 

[Scottly318]

2782 nice! Glad it went well

 

[Someone Else 37]

2783 Third test in three weeks. I've... had a lot of tests in the past few weeks.

 

[lenscas]

2784 so...how do the tests work?

in my eyes the only way to test how good someone is in programming is to give him a project and see how he handles it and look in the code of that project while the one that gets tested sometimes explain what his reasoning was behind the code he wrote.

the small 1 file or worse 1 function programs are too small to show how good someone is in programming.

 

[Scottly318]

2785. That would be great for a final. My guess is that the tests would be on the concepts. But bear in mind... I finished nursing school 5yrs ago.

 

[duckfan77]

2786

 

[Scottly318]

2787

 

[Someone Else 37]

2788

2784 so...how do the tests work?

in my eyes the only way to test how good someone is in programming is to give him a project and see how he handles it and look in the code of that project while the one that gets tested sometimes explain what his reasoning was behind the code he wrote.

the small 1 file or worse 1 function programs are too small to show how good someone is in programming.

This test was mostly "write a half-dozen lines of code that does this particular thing" for a half-dozen different things the code should do, then some short-answer and fill-in-the-blank questions about the particulars of C syntax and terminology.

I agree, a programming project would do a better job of seeing if students actually know what they're doing... but we have programming projects for that.

 

[duckfan77]

2789 I'll be having some of those in the future. What's worse is that they are hand written, but properly formatted pieces of Java, with correct style conventions.

 

[ZDavePlays]

2790 cool!

 

[Someone Else 37]

2791 No. Programming tests are not cool.

Also, welcome to the forum games!

 

[lenscas]

2792 why do schools believe that those tests show anything? Maybe if its about some weird feature of a language and you want to see if that is understood without starting a whole project.
For example with javascript's non-blocking code concept you can ask something like

Why would the code below print 20 instead of 10.

var a = 10
$.ajax({
    url           :    "some/url.php",
    success  :     function(data){
         console.log(a)
    }
})
a=20

but again tests like these are very language specific and don't show how good someone is with that language, only shows if the one that gets tested is aware of certain language specific things.

 

[Someone Else 37]

2794 *shrug*
All I can say is, it's what they do.

 

[ZDavePlays]

2795
at least you know how to code so yea you can make mods i guess? and thanks! how did you know i was new?

 

[fowltief]

2796 Welcome... to the fun side..

 

[duckfan77]

2797 I can't make mods, I'm just learning Java

 

[Someone Else 37]

2795
at least you know how to code so yea you can make mods i guess? and thanks! how did you know i was new?

I have tried my hand at modding MC, yes. I got some things to work, but then kinda got bored with it.

As for your second question...

Also because I didn't recognize your username or your avatar.

 

[duckfan77]

2799 We tend to recognize who shows up often.
SE, you forgot a number.

 

[Someone Else 37]

Indeed I did. Derp.

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