Took a coding exam today ..

.. on paper.

Actual coding or cs theory?

@nikmanG Web Dev

It has the positive effects, you really need to think, before you start coding. Its annoying but helps you.

I’d argue that written exams of principles isn’t all that bad i.e drawing out the box model, pseudo code, CRAP, other stylistic features. Telling someone “here is a template now code css with a php backend using only paper” isn’t as good.

I took a web dev exam on paper and it wasn't terrible at all. While it was mostly just "what does <tag> do?" There were a few questions where we had to write (and obviously properly indent) some HTML/CSS.

Oh and it took like 20 minutes for a few of us to finish. Super easy and definitely beats having to make a simple website for an exam. (We have bi-weekly projects and in class assignments for that lol)

@Cyanide web dev? Thats some next level stupidity 😝

@jhh2450 Good for you :)

@Cyanide The class is really really easy lol. It's a ground up class, but I've got a decent bit of experience.

Main things I've learned:
•Proper indentation (oh God the spaghetti I used to write... #rip),
•HTML5 tags (thanks to my high school teacher for teaching us "HTML5" but forgetting those tags)
•A bit of technicalities and and a few just simple things.

But thanks lol

Don't be surprised if they ask you to code on paper during an interview too.

Common practice in a lot of interviews, solve problems in a white board/paper./

@Merkury Whiteboard > paper.

Much easier to fix mistakes on a whiteboard vs paper lol

Looks like the exam was in INDIA

@psychokiller385 ✔

just forgot the semicolon

Argh, what I hate the most is the fact that in real life, I can Google shit. Sure, you need to know the language, but the fact that an exam in such a practical subject can be based solely on theory and memory annoys me.

I failed on one of those...
My code was correct by means of: "me typing it into a PC"...
But I have poor handwriting, so the people who checked the exam completely screwed up reading the code I was writing... (causing all kinds of issues)

I feel you.
Had to code C in an exam yesterday.

I had coding exams for C++ and the lector told us that he will not check semicolons. In the end I realized that it is a good experience for future interviews.