My roommate's CS Prof literally makes them print their code on PAPER (max 80 chars to a line) and submit it to his physical dropbox across campus. This includes end of term projects where a single submission might have literally 20 pages of code.

I don't know what to say.

How do he compile the code then?

@zvyn I'd prefer Piet. Insanely hard to program but also impossible to read.

Universities are often very stupid and with a lot of bureaucracy. I've had to do the same before.

In my first year one of the requirements was code with 'some glitter'. By this I think they meant do something interesting. Instead I put some sticky glitter on the paper before I handed it in.

What the heck

I had a friend who's prof always forced everyone to start their arrays at [1], because that is how it is done in math.

Hey at least you can't have a tabs vs spaces war ;)

@Rakota Because additional checks to discard index 0 makes code more readable!

@Rakota Fuck those useless heaps, amirite? 😬

Well we still write our CS exams on papers, and teachers will punish you if you miss ; (not kidding)

Still write all my uni CS stuff on paper, except the labs thankfully...

This story reminded me of a CS class back in high school where we had to hand in the source code for our final project. A friend and me went overkill and made a chess AI, which cost us 50 pages at smallest font size to print...

I had to do that too. 20 pages of pure code.

on the bright side you become thankful when you return to your computer

The thing is, you can’t even be mad because you’re not the one who’s creating a hell-hole for yourself.