does kinda failing oop exam make you a bad programmer?

I always like to say to myself that being a bad/good programmer is about never stop learning. If someone passes that OOP exam and has the best graduation ever, but stops right there not willing to study a new language/algorithm/framework ever again s/he is certainly not a good programmer.

You can pass every exam with an A+ but it doesn't mean shit if you're a shit programmer.

Define a bad programmer. We all have to learn stuff. It took me personally about three years before finally understanding OOP (don't want to program in any other way now) but I could write very nice procedural stuff back then!

So: no, failing an OOP exam definitely doesn't make you a bad programmer, it just makes you someone who doesn't get something yet and the time will come when you're like '.....Ohhhhhh!' ;)

Fail is a step to become a master.

Sometimes those patterns just don't fit the way you think about this things. A special way of thinking can be a gift and maybe you just have to look for other patterns (eg. FP). Your future teammates will surely appreciate a different view on problems.

Not really. Some people prefer to code object oriented and some declarative and some functional. Just use the style you prefer if your language does support it.

Real world problems are a lot different from what an exam throws at you.

Someone told me: if you have time to score A in all your exams at uni, it means that you are doing something wrong in your life ;). I have oop exam in 2 weeks but I am not really stressed. I already work as a programmer and I see that my grades don't really reflect my knowledge in practice. Of course, you need to understand principles but memorising useless stuff for exam is pointless.

If anything, failing exams shows that you are a good programmer

I put the minimum effort into uni work, just enough to be good. All my effort really goes into personal projects. I designed my projects to help me get where the want to be. Uni don't teach shit

Exams don't mean anything.

Welcome to web development😛😛

@ssp4all yeah, because we all know that object-orientation is only used in webdev

@Krokoklemme lol

@Krokoklemme s/he probably meant that because @no-one uses OOP in webdev and s/he failed OOP exam so that would be the optimal field for him/her.

@romangraef ye, sorry again, but in what world is OOP *not* used for web-development?

@user4592357 In the professional world, if you make a bad program, often times you HAVE to fix it. Tell your teacher a retake is just part of the support plan.

@gorsamp OOP or any other programming paradigm doesn't mean that there wouldn't be bugs to fix.

@Krokoklemme a joke may be inaccurate to a certain extent.

@emyu10 are you saying I am wrong, are you agreeing with me, I am not sure why you tagged me

@gorsamp actually I didn't read your comment. Sorry about that.

@linuxxx thanks, what did you use to help you (e.g. book, website)?