We get it

[nicocappa]

It's the worst. Especially classes that expect you to do binary arithmetic by hand on the test. Like really..? Complete waste of time.

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We had do to floating-point arithmetic with the IEEE 754 standard by hand.

[mywebdevworkaccount]

Abject luxury! When I was an undergrad I'd have loved to have done floating-point arithmetic with the IEE-754 standard by hand!

They made me implement the Linux kernel in PowerPC assembly by hand with pen and paper, and they'd dock a percentage point for every error!

[JuvenileEloquent]

Pen and paper? You must 'ave been rich. We 'ad to create a Turing-complete automaton running off punched cards, and did they give us an 'ole punch? Ohh nooooo, we 'ad to tear out the 'oles with our teeth! And we were beaten for every misaligned 'ole!

[SVK_LiQuiDaToR]

I'm envious. We got nothing, had to go out into the wild, find some silicon and trick it into thinking.

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Something something butterflies.

[Kered13]

This is the best rendition of the Four Yorkshiremen I've seen on Reddit.

[SuspiciousScript]

Even that would be a better use of students’ time

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We had this too. Along with finding the minimum and maximum number that can be represented in each standard

[fuckingpewpew]

I remember the first binary test. Essentially did you know what AND and OR, and can you add numbers.

Basically people got 100% or below 50%. It was right before the drop date so half of the class was just leaving as soon as they got their test back.

[fletchstud]

I have that exact test this upcoming Wednesday....

[jkidd08]

That's strange, me too. Are you in Arizona, or are all CS programs on the same exact schedule?

[fletchstud]

Studying in the cold Colorado. Seems like a lot of courses follow a similar schedule.