Timeline for Is it wrong to impose a challenging time constraint on exams?
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| Mar 13, 2018 at 5:01 | answer | added | Ben | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 21:10 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Apr 16, 2014 at 16:03 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @O.R.Mapper: I don't expect it to be trivial to convert the rough notes into code, I just think the same rule would apply if I assumed that writing code on paper without testing it is the 90% "hard part" :-) | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 15:45 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @SteveJessop: Personal preference may differ here. I usually find myself stumbling over the ninety-ninety rule when I just prepare a conceptual drawing or keywords and assume that was the "hard part", or 90% of the effort involved. | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 12:15 | comment | added | Cephalopod | As my math teacher once said: "I can run 100 meters, too, but I still don't go to the Olympics". | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 5:56 | answer | added | user14195 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 5:27 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/456302864910929920 | ||
| Apr 16, 2014 at 4:15 | comment | added | JeffE | If you need 50 lines of code to answer a 15-minute question, the time constraint could be unfair, the instructor might be looking for a reasonable line of attack instead of a fully polished solution, or you might just be doing it wrong. | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 23:10 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @O.R.Mapper: fair enough. I don't produce what you'd reasonably call "code" under such circumstances, but maybe that's just because I didn't do a CS degree and hence didn't take these exams :-) Rather, I write enough to remind myself how to write the code later, which normally is a key insight or a picture. | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 22:23 | answer | added | Muz | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 20:51 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @SteveJessop: That may depend on the strictness of how correct the code must be - I have often found myself scribbling down an algorithm on paper while being underway (also on my way to or from work), so I don't forget it by the time I get to continue development of the respective project at a computer, and also to make use of the time where I don't have a computer with a keyboard around. Of course, seeing an analogy to an exam task here requires that the exam task be considered correct when it is conceptually correct, with a rather lax interpretation of the intended syntax. | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 19:36 | answer | added | tsleyson | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | As a professional programmer, I can't imagine a situation where I have to write 50 lines of code on a piece of paper in any time period. A quite bad (but not necessarily atrocious) job interview might call for a lot of code on whiteboard or paper, but it's fairly futile to write that amount of code without the capacity to test it. The time limit is not what makes that task artificial. | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 14:11 | answer | added | JustAskin | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 14:00 | answer | added | user102 | timeline score: 26 | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 14:00 | answer | added | Lii | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Apr 15, 2014 at 12:55 | answer | added | Dr Pangloss | timeline score: 17 | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 12:42 | history | asked | user14156 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |