I still don't know how I feel about programming tests here in my university being on paper. Literally, we code on paper and that's it. Teacher corrects it like a compiler.

@eskizo I feel you man this happens in most University's.

Yeah thats a skill all devs should have, if you write 15 lines of bugged code its no good and you should have had the flow thought out before you typed. So that is a good thing even though i disagree on writting it on paper

Writing in a paper makes you remember it more than writing it in the compiler.

I agree with @PerfectAsshole. If you start learning by writing on paper, your solutions are better thought out and you will learn more. And to check your solution you will have to go line by line instead of compile&fail until you succeed.

@boshtian i don't like the writing on paper part, personally i used notepad starting off which should be enough in this case cause the teacher should know which students cheated by running it though a compiler. But a dev that does nothing but try&fail is no better than a monkey typing hamlet

In my uni we just get the theory stuff on paper like "what's wrong with this code" and stuff like that

Well, I was in same place, but ours let us make small mistakes that compiler would tell us anyway (except semicolons, those were mandatory, but let's say curly brackets - if we messed them up a bit it was ok)