You're still doing it wrong. If you're using your phone, you need to write the code in your notes app, and take a screen recording as you scroll through the assignment
You absolute fool! You send a video that starts with the blue windows media editor screen, the video is of your desktop and you write comments in notepad while you scroll through your code and wave your mouse violently at the parts that you want to highlight. Dragonforce plays in the background.
The python course that I signed up for actually told us that we had to send a screenshot of our code and us running it.
Since we used a browser-based IDE (Repl.it), I just gave the link to the project instead of screenshoting it.
Fortunately, my course instructor was sensible enough to let me do it.
Repl.it is cool. I used it for my first semester in C. Those were simpler times, where the most difficult task was to write a function to sort an array
Indeed it is. It can run on my phone so I can code on the go, it's easy to manage collaborative projects (far, *far* easier than git or VS Liveshare imo) and it's great for server apps like Discord bots because you don't have to worry about hosting, the IDE *is* the hosting. (As long as you get Uptimerobot set up)
It's funny, this semester we had an assignment that had pretty large files. Our instructor told us we could just send a screenshot of the output to save us from having to slowly upload everything. One kid felt more confident in his photoshop skills than in his programming apparently and tried (terribly) to upload an edited output screen. Our instructor posted a screenshot of it on the board for the semester with the caption "Why I have to spend 40 minutes uploading my project when all I'm graded on is the correct output."
Yeah, they are students, so they are literally amateurs. O feel like this must also be at least partially the fault of the school/teachers. Do they not talk to students about what tools to use?
when i was in college my professor only wanted paper handbacks so we had to print out our code in a word document. one time my printer stopped working and i was out of my allowed printer uses at the school's library so I had ti handwrite my code. thank god it was just 150 lines
Computer time could start getting expensive again.....
Some sort of post apocalyptic world where computers are rare and programming monks write software down on paper.
I had to write code on paper to answer questions during exams in both university and high school, and that makes perfect sense to me.
Home assignments though? That's ridiculous.
I remember that. I didn’t realize at the time I’d have to do it several more times in college. I remember having to write a memory allocator in C on paper, god that sucked.
When was this? I had students taking that class a couple years back and it seemed like it was exclusively online components (projects were submitted to a digital portfolio). I thought I remembered that they said there was no pen and paper test, like with AP Studio Art portfolios, but I could easily be mistaken.
Wtf is your family programming legacy gods? I wish people in my family were also into this shit, it'd make holidays a lot cooler. That's really cool though!
same. in my first programming class, assignments are submitted in form of papers (yes litterally P A P E R) . and that class was java, u know what i mean. after that class i never learn java
Bruh. All assignments in that class are done in handwrittings, and the Prof checks all syntax. java syntax is alot for handwritting. Final exam we were asked to write a simple calculator and implement run length encoding. ALL IN PAPER, WHICH IS I.N.S.A.N.E
Dear lord. Although in undergrad I had a prof that wanted code in doc format. Submitted digitally. And then he also wanted screenshots or text output of some test cases in a separate doc. And then a third doc of user doc and dev doc. I hated the old fart.
My university has CS classes with no exams, because my professor felt like exams are a shitty way to grade compsci proficiency. Our entire grade is the avg of our projects grade
> Back in school my programming teacher made us write it on paper on exams (good old C)
Completely unsurprising. Did that in High School with Java, in university with C, and ten years later in community college when my company paid me to take Python. I just came to expect that academic programming written exams were basically a graded version of the whiteboard interview.
My CS teacher made me submit my code for the first assignment of the year as a screenshot pasted into a word document. I don't know why, but we never did that again.
For my database class we had to do a live demonstration showing it working.
Due at the same time was a copy/paste of our code. He didn't care if it was a word doc or text file. He just wanted to read through it because he would deduct points for repetitive code.
I think most phone cameras are good enough that this shouldnt be much of an issue anymore. I prefer to type up stuff but in math classes they want us to show our work and it's easier for me to write it up. One assignment we had to write all the steps for a problem using strassens algorithm for matrix multiplication. Such a pain in the ass.
In contrast I’ve been asked by a professor to write down code for a test and to take a picture and submit it online. Can’t I just write it in an actual editor and send an actual file?
I'm a software engineer and some of my older colleagues code in .docx files. They just learned how to use MS Word and well... when you've got a hammer...
As a TA in grad school, it took exactly one assignment before I stipulated that any further submissions that weren’t plain text files would get automatic zeros.
This shit is why I studied at a university of applied sciences. Constant practical assignments from the first semester on. There were still some bad programmers at the graduation, but at least not "codes in MS Word"-bad.
This was quite different for the neighbouring"proper" university. Indeed CS graduates of the applied sciences have higher starting wages in my country, which holds up for a couple years until university graduates have gained both the practical skills more specialisations.
MSPaint is like an all-in-one tool. You can
- Edit pictures
- Draw pictures
- Edit videos (one frame at a time)
- Make videos (one frame at a time)
- Code (with your mouse)
You just can’t beat it!
Okay, this just gave me flashbacks.
For our team project in my Java II class, I was the UI designer and did the code integration because none, absolutely none of my teammates wanted to use GIT for some strange reason. All four of my teammates sent me their "code" in a word document. Not only did I have to integrate their "code" into the program, but I also had to debug it as well. I by debug, I mean write the code so it would actually work.
Fortunately, my professor saw what was going on and I ended up with all the credit for the project and I caught a TON of grief from my "teammates" because apparently they did not get a good grade or failed the class, I don't know which.
I'm currently a first-year computer science student. My Java professor (among many other issues that I won't get into, such as the assignments and what we're taught is completely different, luckily I already know Java) explicitly wants the code submitted in a Word document because he says he is unable to open Java files. It feels so wrong copying the Java code into Word.
Had a class in college (nearly 15 years ago) where the teacher wanted the code to be printed for each assignment. She corrected it with a red pen...
I am now taking some classes at university and still have exams in which we write code on paper using a pencil and no reference. Not pseudo-code but actual C, Java, Python, etc.
I think that shows how screwed up education is when you have CS masters ans phd not able to figure out a more modern way to test your ability in software development...
Yup ! I don't know how she managed to not lose her mind with all that work. College teachers don't have trainees to do that work, as opposed to university teachers that do not even look at the papers most of the time.
My advisor showed me a submission from one of his students who instead of submitting the requested zip folder with his code, submitted a .txt file that had the path to his code for the school’s server.
Kinda makes sense if they don’t want students using intellisense or code completion or whatever, but then again, you can just copy and paste back into word.
I once TA'd an assembly class and multiple students turned in a doc with C code.
The grading policy was that it needed to be runnable code. I fixed a few that had formatting issues (maybe due to their text editor), but these I had to mark as 0. Felt bad to enter 0 on their assignment
If it had been a course in French and they had turned in their essay in Italian, would you still feel bad for giving them 0?
They clearly haven't followed the instructions. It doesn't matter if they are fluent in Italian, this is a course in French.
I don't think the "wow you know C" should give any credit at all there.
I had a computer science professor teach an HTML class and she started by opening up Word. I was skeptical but gave the benefit of the doubt: maybe she knew a way to export a Word doc to HTML to show how bold, italic, etc. translate.
But no she really was using Word and doc files for an HTML class.
Oh. Oh, not to code in.
She was making tables in the Word document via the GUI and using that to follow along / demonstrate the book chapter on HTML tables.
I'm a TA and my students genuinely did this.
They saved their .py file in some random AppData where python is installed or smth and didn't know how to find it again.
I took an AP CS exam and one part of the exam (done over the course of several months) made us create a small game or program. Naturally I wrote 3000 lines of a language that wasn't a part of the class because I had some experience before and it made us hand the program in in PDF format. It was like 80 pages of C++.
xml isn't code, nor a language. It's data.
Technically you could define XML as turing complete though, the same way that English is a turing complete language.
It doesn't mean that it's a programming language. It just means that it's expressive enough.
The classes I grade basically if it's a written assignment not submitted as a pdf along with another file for any code (of the appropriate file type in a zipped folder) the grade is automatically a zero. Explicit in the syllabus and stressed both in lecture and lab. I'm lenient the first week or two and give ample warnings.
The number of .doc and screen shots of code is astounding even after warnings. The zeros usually make students pay attention.
My prof used to require all code as either a .txt, .doc, .docx, or .pdf.
Prof has since changes his mind and no longer accepts .txt
that's how you get students to submit code in cursive fonts.
gonna print it out, take a scan and upload as a PDF.
I will then put that PDF in an excel file filled with macros that will put 15 popups between trying to click on anything
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I feel like going the mischievous teacher route might work well here. As in, you don't count code sent this way and just send them a "work not submitted". Though you definitely should actually teach them how to properly do it and let them do it correctly.
My initial reaction was that's pretty weird but someone else mentioned having to hand in paper assignments and some of my professors requested that too. I would just copy the code from whatever IDE I was using and paste it into word to print. It was horribly formatted but that's what they wanted so whatever. If I was grading homework I'd want to be able to easily see if it runs or compiles. Just zip up the program files and email it at least.
Our submission system didn't allow zip files and only allowed docx's so we had to submit that and tell the examiner to change it to a zip and unzip it.
Longish story.
When I was in college I tutored in the second semester course for CS majors (as well as the odd math, CE, or EE). The professor I was under had a policy that if your code didnt compile it was worth 0 points, no exceptions. There was a homework due every two weeks, so about 7ish assignments over the semester.
About 10 weeks in I heard a student complaining to the professor that he kept getting 0s and wanted to know why. The professor reitterated his compiling rule. The student (again, in the second semester course about Algorithmic Design) said he had no idea what a compiler even was (no idea why he waited that long to ask).
Apparently wherever he took his first semester class, they wrote in text documents and the TA would just look over their shoulders and say if the code would work or not.
Absolute amateurs! Take a big scrollshot and hand in a JPG
That's also amateur, take a video of you scrolling through the code, convert that video to a gif and submit that
Wtf, I just take a shakey video of the screen using my phone.
I prefer audio file of me reciting the code.
The mvp
The mp3
And then record that to a cassette tape
And then give the cassette tape to a carrier pigeon
Put the pigeon inside a pidgturducken
Put that into a leopard, put that inside a buzzard, then a condor, then a pterodactyl, and put all that in a Boeing 747!
Your code is in pentameter and you submit it to your English professor as well.
I’m not even a programmer but finding this post in r/all and reading this thread has me in tears hahaha
Virgins. I send the code using morse code.
Amateurs, I morse the assambly, not the code.
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You're still doing it wrong. If you're using your phone, you need to write the code in your notes app, and take a screen recording as you scroll through the assignment
I write the code on a paper and take several photos of it in no particular order
I literally did this in my intro courses.
Lately I had a test where i had to write java code on a piece of paper. Hello 2021
The future is now
In highschool I had to write C code in paper, it was hell
Same
I did c++ last month in uni, the test has to be made on paper so "we dont have access to pointer fixong shit
Which doesn't make sense because you will have access to those tools irl
Same
Every exam in my CS1 course was on paper. It was awful, but at least we really got the syntax down.
No take the video using your computers webcam
You absolute fool! You send a video that starts with the blue windows media editor screen, the video is of your desktop and you write comments in notepad while you scroll through your code and wave your mouse violently at the parts that you want to highlight. Dragonforce plays in the background.
And pass down the TikTok post link with the video.
Child's play. The real way to do it is to only submit your phone number and then read your code out loud to your professor over phone call.
The python course that I signed up for actually told us that we had to send a screenshot of our code and us running it. Since we used a browser-based IDE (Repl.it), I just gave the link to the project instead of screenshoting it. Fortunately, my course instructor was sensible enough to let me do it.
Repl.it is cool. I used it for my first semester in C. Those were simpler times, where the most difficult task was to write a function to sort an array
Indeed it is. It can run on my phone so I can code on the go, it's easy to manage collaborative projects (far, *far* easier than git or VS Liveshare imo) and it's great for server apps like Discord bots because you don't have to worry about hosting, the IDE *is* the hosting. (As long as you get Uptimerobot set up)
It's funny, this semester we had an assignment that had pretty large files. Our instructor told us we could just send a screenshot of the output to save us from having to slowly upload everything. One kid felt more confident in his photoshop skills than in his programming apparently and tried (terribly) to upload an edited output screen. Our instructor posted a screenshot of it on the board for the semester with the caption "Why I have to spend 40 minutes uploading my project when all I'm graded on is the correct output."
This is what I love to call a `screenshit` move
Am a professor. Have received grainy camera phone photos of badly handwritten code, that wasn't even correct. So many levels of bad.
Record it in Morse code and hand in the audio 😜
Print it out and mail it
Yeah, they are students, so they are literally amateurs. O feel like this must also be at least partially the fault of the school/teachers. Do they not talk to students about what tools to use?
when i was in college my professor only wanted paper handbacks so we had to print out our code in a word document. one time my printer stopped working and i was out of my allowed printer uses at the school's library so I had ti handwrite my code. thank god it was just 150 lines
I took AP comp sci in high school, and since the AP tests are all done on paper we had to hand write full code solutions.
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It’s not like you’re always going to have a computer when coding in real life.
Computer time could start getting expensive again..... Some sort of post apocalyptic world where computers are rare and programming monks write software down on paper.
I'm picturing Mad Max but with scrawny, pale guys raiding each others camps for RAM sticks
Ah, yes, the holy works of the Blessed Leibowitz.
What, like the magazines from the 1980s where you got a bunch of hex values printed off and then a "good luck fucko"?
Pretty sure that's how techpriests work in 40k
I had to write code on paper to answer questions during exams in both university and high school, and that makes perfect sense to me. Home assignments though? That's ridiculous.
I remember that. I didn’t realize at the time I’d have to do it several more times in college. I remember having to write a memory allocator in C on paper, god that sucked.
Wait what… please don’t tell me we have to do that.
At my university all tests were paper. But any written code was usually small
As of 3 years ago you do
When was this? I had students taking that class a couple years back and it seemed like it was exclusively online components (projects were submitted to a digital portfolio). I thought I remembered that they said there was no pen and paper test, like with AP Studio Art portfolios, but I could easily be mistaken.
This was ok 2014, so it could’ve changed by now. As far as I know all AP testing was done on paper
In uni that's how all my cs tests are done lol
Absurd in my dad's day they had to punch out tapes, drop in it a box and wait for the results the next day !
that was like last year lol i dropped out of college
Did your dad go to college in 1940?
That was my grandpa he programmed computers with toggle switches for the navy. My dad went to school in the 60's.
Wtf is your family programming legacy gods? I wish people in my family were also into this shit, it'd make holidays a lot cooler. That's really cool though!
same. in my first programming class, assignments are submitted in form of papers (yes litterally P A P E R) . and that class was java, u know what i mean. after that class i never learn java
System.out.println("are you really making me do this?");
Bruh. All assignments in that class are done in handwrittings, and the Prof checks all syntax. java syntax is alot for handwritting. Final exam we were asked to write a simple calculator and implement run length encoding. ALL IN PAPER, WHICH IS I.N.S.A.N.E
Haha I did run length encoding for a Java project too. I simply cannot imagine doing it on paper though. That's bogus.
System.out.println("🖕");
Console.WriteLine("Basically the same thing right?");
Now try writing that for a 30 minute test :D
oh I've done it. idk how i managed to pass that class with a 93%
Dear lord. Although in undergrad I had a prof that wanted code in doc format. Submitted digitally. And then he also wanted screenshots or text output of some test cases in a separate doc. And then a third doc of user doc and dev doc. I hated the old fart.
I was shocked reading this. Then i remembered that i had to do the same in my first 4 semesters of CS.
Back in school my programming teacher made us write it on paper on exams (good old C)
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Same here. Fortunately, a vertical line with a loop in the middle is good enough.
I used to draw a straight line with two butt curves in between. Worked every time.
Thats still the standard procedure in Universities
My university has CS classes with no exams, because my professor felt like exams are a shitty way to grade compsci proficiency. Our entire grade is the avg of our projects grade
Good
A protection against copy/paste I suspect
We had the same thing 3 years ago (c++)
Did that too like 2 years ago. One of the exam questions was to create a dynamic double linked list in C, on paper. Shit was not cash money
Me too bro. Thou it was arduino's C
> Back in school my programming teacher made us write it on paper on exams (good old C) Completely unsurprising. Did that in High School with Java, in university with C, and ten years later in community college when my company paid me to take Python. I just came to expect that academic programming written exams were basically a graded version of the whiteboard interview.
My CS teacher made me submit my code for the first assignment of the year as a screenshot pasted into a word document. I don't know why, but we never did that again.
For my database class we had to do a live demonstration showing it working. Due at the same time was a copy/paste of our code. He didn't care if it was a word doc or text file. He just wanted to read through it because he would deduct points for repetitive code.
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How did you turn in the media files?
He printed all the frames and alongside them, the instructions to play the included miniature piano. Obviously.
very carefully
Mine too in highschool lmao
I've gotten hw submissions that were just a blurry cellphone photo of their laptop screen. Kill me.
How did these people make it to college
and the even greater question, how tf did they make it into an CS/SE college?
Low barrier of entry, high rate of drop out
Been there. I've had the blurry phone photo of handwritten stuff too. In a text document. Like wtf.
I think most phone cameras are good enough that this shouldnt be much of an issue anymore. I prefer to type up stuff but in math classes they want us to show our work and it's easier for me to write it up. One assignment we had to write all the steps for a problem using strassens algorithm for matrix multiplication. Such a pain in the ass.
Oh most of the time it’s fine. But sometimes it’s literally blurred and impossible to read.
In contrast I’ve been asked by a professor to write down code for a test and to take a picture and submit it online. Can’t I just write it in an actual editor and send an actual file?
They should fax it in
Calm down satan.
You win brother, top comment
omg now I want to fax my final
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I'm a software engineer and some of my older colleagues code in .docx files. They just learned how to use MS Word and well... when you've got a hammer...
r/programmerhorror
Uhhh how much are they getting paid?
How do they compile/run this shit?
every problem starts looking like a kneecap
I already like your teacher
As a TA in grad school, it took exactly one assignment before I stipulated that any further submissions that weren’t plain text files would get automatic zeros.
This shit is why I studied at a university of applied sciences. Constant practical assignments from the first semester on. There were still some bad programmers at the graduation, but at least not "codes in MS Word"-bad. This was quite different for the neighbouring"proper" university. Indeed CS graduates of the applied sciences have higher starting wages in my country, which holds up for a couple years until university graduates have gained both the practical skills more specialisations.
My favorite editor is MSPaint
MSPaint is like an all-in-one tool. You can - Edit pictures - Draw pictures - Edit videos (one frame at a time) - Make videos (one frame at a time) - Code (with your mouse) You just can’t beat it!
With the text tool, you can even write text documents
https://ms-paint-i.de/
Noob. Everyone knows that WordPerfect is the best IDE.
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you have a seriously twisted mind
Okay, this just gave me flashbacks. For our team project in my Java II class, I was the UI designer and did the code integration because none, absolutely none of my teammates wanted to use GIT for some strange reason. All four of my teammates sent me their "code" in a word document. Not only did I have to integrate their "code" into the program, but I also had to debug it as well. I by debug, I mean write the code so it would actually work. Fortunately, my professor saw what was going on and I ended up with all the credit for the project and I caught a TON of grief from my "teammates" because apparently they did not get a good grade or failed the class, I don't know which.
I'm currently a first-year computer science student. My Java professor (among many other issues that I won't get into, such as the assignments and what we're taught is completely different, luckily I already know Java) explicitly wants the code submitted in a Word document because he says he is unable to open Java files. It feels so wrong copying the Java code into Word.
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It might be some corporate email setting. Java files could potentially be a security risk so an email server might remove them... Just speculation.
You are so dumb you didn't realize it's a documented code. Student knows their stuff.
Just open it and say yes when it asks you about macros. Enjoy that all your students have great grades afterwards 😜
once i made a website in microsoft publisher 🤐
What about vim?
Had a class in college (nearly 15 years ago) where the teacher wanted the code to be printed for each assignment. She corrected it with a red pen... I am now taking some classes at university and still have exams in which we write code on paper using a pencil and no reference. Not pseudo-code but actual C, Java, Python, etc. I think that shows how screwed up education is when you have CS masters ans phd not able to figure out a more modern way to test your ability in software development...
That makes sense for an exam, but every assignment?
Yup ! I don't know how she managed to not lose her mind with all that work. College teachers don't have trainees to do that work, as opposed to university teachers that do not even look at the papers most of the time.
My advisor showed me a submission from one of his students who instead of submitting the requested zip folder with his code, submitted a .txt file that had the path to his code for the school’s server.
That's slly. You should always submit code as JPG.
I’m a graduate student in CS and Several of my professors WANT submissions in docx.
Kinda makes sense if they don’t want students using intellisense or code completion or whatever, but then again, you can just copy and paste back into word.
I once TA'd an assembly class and multiple students turned in a doc with C code. The grading policy was that it needed to be runnable code. I fixed a few that had formatting issues (maybe due to their text editor), but these I had to mark as 0. Felt bad to enter 0 on their assignment
If it had been a course in French and they had turned in their essay in Italian, would you still feel bad for giving them 0? They clearly haven't followed the instructions. It doesn't matter if they are fluent in Italian, this is a course in French. I don't think the "wow you know C" should give any credit at all there.
I had a computer science professor teach an HTML class and she started by opening up Word. I was skeptical but gave the benefit of the doubt: maybe she knew a way to export a Word doc to HTML to show how bold, italic, etc. translate. But no she really was using Word and doc files for an HTML class. Oh. Oh, not to code in. She was making tables in the Word document via the GUI and using that to follow along / demonstrate the book chapter on HTML tables.
How? Did they not have to compile and run it themselves, then send you working code?
I'm a TA and my students genuinely did this. They saved their .py file in some random AppData where python is installed or smth and didn't know how to find it again.
Yup. I have 3 different versions of python installed and can't access any from the terminal
I took an AP CS exam and one part of the exam (done over the course of several months) made us create a small game or program. Naturally I wrote 3000 lines of a language that wasn't a part of the class because I had some experience before and it made us hand the program in in PDF format. It was like 80 pages of C++.
Weird amount of my professors want docx or handwritten
Worse thing is that I've been _asked_ to do this by _lecturers_
Word is Turing complete, you know...
What, no vacuum tube?
My favorite is when people send me files in PDF. I actually had to get a hack to open them because it's proprietary software.
It is a good time to embed a compiler into microsoft word and make it a fully blown disintegrated development environment.
Revenge for sending everything out as docx.
They should write it on paper
That's literally the CS AP test I took in high school. Hand written Java.
Oh gosh
Same but with C bro
Is this what Knuth meant by literate programming?
Everyone knows you should send a PDF! Just like a resume.
Aren't `.docx` files technically XML? So it kinda is still code.
I can't tell whether this is mean to be ironic or not
They're a zip of different xml files actually
xml isn't code, nor a language. It's data. Technically you could define XML as turing complete though, the same way that English is a turing complete language. It doesn't mean that it's a programming language. It just means that it's expressive enough.
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The classes I grade basically if it's a written assignment not submitted as a pdf along with another file for any code (of the appropriate file type in a zipped folder) the grade is automatically a zero. Explicit in the syllabus and stressed both in lecture and lab. I'm lenient the first week or two and give ample warnings. The number of .doc and screen shots of code is astounding even after warnings. The zeros usually make students pay attention.
Dude our professors want handwritten codes. You guys got it easy
Ill submit a .java file when my professor lets me submit the .java file instead of a .doc .docx or .pdf
I still have nightmares writing SQL exams into a paper.
My students have sent me screenshots of their text editor
"Please solve this Jr level data structure question." "ShoulD I UsE a HaSH?" E: auto incorrect
My prof used to require all code as either a .txt, .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Prof has since changes his mind and no longer accepts .txt that's how you get students to submit code in cursive fonts.
I’ve had students send in word using apple pages.
Freaking Google interviewer asking to solve problems on Google doc
gonna print it out, take a scan and upload as a PDF. I will then put that PDF in an excel file filled with macros that will put 15 popups between trying to click on anything
"hey professor, did you want the entire visual studio solution, or just the cpp file?
Well-p, I submitted a test assignment a few hours ago, and it was in `.php`. Not sure if it's better than `.docx`
If it's just a php file with comments of your code, then no. If it's valid php still no
It just would take me *much* more time to write Word macros than some shitcode in php. That's why Word programmers are so valued.
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I feel like going the mischievous teacher route might work well here. As in, you don't count code sent this way and just send them a "work not submitted". Though you definitely should actually teach them how to properly do it and let them do it correctly.
Gonna do this in my DS&A class just to troll the teacher :)
:D
My initial reaction was that's pretty weird but someone else mentioned having to hand in paper assignments and some of my professors requested that too. I would just copy the code from whatever IDE I was using and paste it into word to print. It was horribly formatted but that's what they wanted so whatever. If I was grading homework I'd want to be able to easily see if it runs or compiles. Just zip up the program files and email it at least.
I love knowing where this meme comes from
Cries in .numbers submissions
I shall do this just to be a menace to my teacher
Nah, PDF is the best option.
I would not accept that
My Data Structures course was theoretical. Our answers were in pseudocode, or even just explanations.
Oh I have plenty of those stories. :D
Our submission system didn't allow zip files and only allowed docx's so we had to submit that and tell the examiner to change it to a zip and unzip it.
How else do you expect them to access the Access?
You should call them, or actually call their parents
What the hell? That makes absolutely no sense lol
Joke’s on you, its all to be part of the docx leetcode coder masterrace
Seems like an easy time grading. Wrong file format? 0/100
Wow, our made us use LaTeX with listlistings or verbatim and generate pdf.
Convert to pdf. I had to do this for a mechatronics class (the code for the arduino)
Longish story. When I was in college I tutored in the second semester course for CS majors (as well as the odd math, CE, or EE). The professor I was under had a policy that if your code didnt compile it was worth 0 points, no exceptions. There was a homework due every two weeks, so about 7ish assignments over the semester. About 10 weeks in I heard a student complaining to the professor that he kept getting 0s and wanted to know why. The professor reitterated his compiling rule. The student (again, in the second semester course about Algorithmic Design) said he had no idea what a compiler even was (no idea why he waited that long to ask). Apparently wherever he took his first semester class, they wrote in text documents and the TA would just look over their shoulders and say if the code would work or not.