Anybody else had to do their programming exams using only pen and paper?

i did

Hear, hear!

Present.

yup. pain in the ass

One better Scantron multiple choice for intro to computer science. Have to love large flagship state schools.

Yeah I had one back at uni, most pointless thing I've done. think they replaced it with another project the following year

Yep, in university. Had to do a visual basic exam with pen and paper.

every Comp Sci test in my time in college was on paper ... late 90's early 2000's

Yup!

Took the AP Computer Science exam last month. 90 minutes to write code in pencil for 4 prompts each with multiple sections. Had to be done in Java. Had to stay within the AP Java subset (ridiculously small) or outside of it within reason. The questions weren't hard, but writing idiot-proof code with pencil is time consuming

Desk checks? I think thats what they called them in class.

lol in India all programming exams are with pen and paper😁 a few have labs as well but written is compulsory😅

Yes, back in college in the early-to-mid 2000's. The professor typeset the exam in LaTeX, naturally.

in my country , it's a 60 marks paper and you would be lucky if u get a single Write A Program question . No wonder all the programmers suck here.

Yep, C and C++. Extra points if you used a pen.

yes! (in my college days) 😡

yup, last year in my algorithm and datastructures class, pain.

My entire college career. Assembler, Pascal and Fortran - all hand written!

@iakar in assembler!? i feel for you man, its hard enough to read as is

I had to in my first year...hated it so much.
But I like writing a pseudo code by pen and paper beforehand.

@sam21s well yeah, that I can understand, but when they're asking for highly functional code with little to no flaw..

3 hour hand written C++ -_-

Had to hand write PHP and Assembler. Pain in the butt to do it on paper...

3 times actually. I don't understand why though.

Wow. Compiling must be the hard part!

Present, I cried at each end of line! Fuuuu

I had to comment out properly

That's so fucked up...

in '90: Borland C++

For the last two semesters, pencil isn't allowed... No study guide or info whatsoever on what to expect on the exam.

Been there

Yes, for last 5 years... 4 of higschool and 1 of university :(

Yep, ever single one

yes i like to do

Writing codes on paper while learning is completely different than doing it practically. Nowadays we have many options like online services to save our time.

thanks

cool