Taking test on C++

[gir]

It should be based entirely on how much code you can possibly write on your naked body.

IMO.

lol

[Brand X]

most programmers learn through hands-on techniques; they'll learn something by doing it themselves rather than from a lecture or a book.

Truth.

[stormy]

This isn't a worthless skill to learn. As a programmer, you're often expected to read and modify/correct code written by someone else, occasionally even written in such a way as to be intentionally confusing (some people think they can't be fired if they're the only ones who understand their spaghetti code).

I second this. Reading code is just as important as writing it.

[Nei]

Little did they know I did them the night before every single time.

this is true for almost every single coder i've known. it's like built into a programmer's genes or something.

------Start rant------

A sure recipe for shitty code. Not thought out, difficult to maintain, and prone to bugs and extensive rewrites. I am so tired of fixing poorly written, un-documented code.

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[gir]

------Start rant------

A sure recipe for shitty code. Not thought out, difficult to maintain, and prone to bugs and extensive rewrites. I am so tired of fixing poorly written, un-documented code.

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true dat.

i was taught to write well-documented and easy-to-read code with good variable and function names and all that crap. and the thing that really helped me when i coded was testing everything as i created it. it takes more time to do, but it really helped me figure out exactly where errors were occurring. plus, you can't get help from the TA's if you wait 'till the night before to write the program.

it always drove me nuts to see my friends spit out the entire program without testing it and then get more error messages than the machine could handle.

[Xenobia_Omega]

IP, you still need C++ pointers and stuff? I'm about to finish up my advanced C++ class...

[Chemist]

I think i took a class just like this, i was even in the electrical section. In our class the prof would write out a big this of code, and basically erase random things, and large chunks, we had to fill it in. Also we had to write lots of loops, and at one point code a program that would invert any matrix properly... We didnt touch a computer once, even on the assignments, it was pen and paper.
My suggestion is write it all out in pen and paper, from memory (after trying to memorize all you can) then type it in and go through to check your errors.

If its on paper, study it on paper. It will help. Also when you do assignments try doing as much as you can without using any aids, just do them from what you remember, it may help on the tests, since those test what you can remember as well.

Cheers!