17 points

Bro just sneak to the bathroom and use chatgpt on your phone like everyone else does

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generate code, memorize how it works, explain it to profs like I know my shit.

ChatGPT was just his magic feather all along.

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9 points

Dumbo reference

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If it’s the first course where they use Java, then one could easily learn it in 21 hours, with time for a full night’s sleep. Unless there’s no code completion and you have to write imports by hand. Then, you’re fucked.

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If there’s no code completion, I can tell you even people who’s been doing coding as a job for years aren’t going to write it correctly from memory. Because we’re not being paid to memorize this shit, we’re being paid to solve problems optimally.

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25 points

Also get paid extra to not use java

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3 points

Perfectly articulated.

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12 points

My undergrad program had us write Java code by hand for some beginning assignments and exams. The TAs would then type whatever we wrote into Eclipse and see if it ran. They usually graded pretty leniently, though.

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There’s nobody out there writing “commercial” code in notepad. It’s the concepts that matter, not the spelling, so if OP got a solid grasp on those from using GPT, he’ll probably make it just fine

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2 points

Remember having to use (a modified version of?) quincy for C. Trying to paste anything would put random characters into your file.

Still beats programming on paper.

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33 points

My first programming course (in Java) had a pen and paper exam. Minus points if you missed a bracket. :/

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8 points

I got -30% for not writing comments for my pen and paper java final.

Somehow it just felt a bit silly to do, I guess

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11 points

Haha same. God that was such a shit show. My hand writing is terrible lmao

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2 points

It was the same for the class I took in high school. I remember the teacher saying that its to make sure we actually understand the code we write, since the IDE does some of the work for you.

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Java is piss easy, they’re fine

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Idk I knew people who got filtered by the intro Java class. It was because they both had no prior experience and also always cheated to avoid writing code themselves for assignments.

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Yup. I had a classmate I did HW with. About 1/3 of the way through our study sessions me and person C realized. Classmate never helped but pretended too. Dude failed that class so hard when we got to the final and it was hand written. 🤣

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13 points

Any competent modern IDE or compiler will help you find syntax mistakes. Knowing the concepts is way more important.

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4 points

Took first semester Java test a month ago. Had to use a built-in WYSIWYG editor within the test webpage.

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WYSIWYG for code? Wtf does that mean?

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WYSIWYG stands for “what you see is what you get”. Basically, it was a plain rich-text editor, with buttons for bold, italics and so on.

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Probably you see black text on white background, and get no syntax highlighting or autocomplete, lol.

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