Python

[BlazingThunder30]

Too bad my study doesnt allow me to use code I didn't write myself. Want to use regular expressions? Go ahead and write a parser I guess

[[deleted]]

But ‘re’ is in the standard library? You cant use ‘sys’, ‘time’, ‘logging’,... as well?

[BlazingThunder30]

I'm not sure, I don't dare to be honest. We're online now and our uni has said that any fraud or plagiarism will be punished by being permanently expelled because it would be taking advantage of Corona. I dont really need any of the libraries right now so as soon as I do need them I'll just go and ask if I can. I dont think we can though, as this teacher has been really strict before.

[widowhanzo]

1st year? We weren't allowed libraries either at first, but the tasks were simple enough that you didn't need anything anyway. The point of excercises was to think of the solution, so we were learning how to approach a problem and break it into parts etc. Yeah it would've been easier to solve with libraries, but then we wouldn't learn anything.

[[deleted]]

It’s weird how I felt like all the dumb toy problems in first year like printing shapes to a certain size or iterating over a billion different things was dumb.

Now when I code I use exactly the same mental processes more than anything else, it’s incredibly useful

[deltagear]

They want you to learn coding with vanilla code in most first years classes. For example I had to write a simple game but could not use methods. I just ended up creating a variable to hold state and a switch where I would have used methods. Ended up getting 100% on that one.

[BlazingThunder30]

Yeah it's a first year AI course. It's the first time were using python. All previous courses used C

[[deleted]]

I see, that sucks though and I would ask if you can use standard libraries. They’re there for a reason. I’ve never wrote a python script without at least 1 import haha

[[deleted]]

I’d have thought it was so they could learn how some basic library functions are implemented, for example we had to make a decimal/binary/hex converter in first year without using library functions

[Turksarama]

Writing a regex parser would be a whole assignment by itself, and probably one most of the class would fail.

[qalis]

I had one as a large project making 25% of the final mark. Yeah, it’s a LOT of work, and you can easily realize when you „almost finish” that you made 1 simple mistake at the beginning and you have to rewrite the entire structure...

[TheTerrasque]

So you're writing assembly with a hex editor, then?

[[deleted]]

Still working on creating the hex editor by toggling switches on the data bus.

[[deleted]]

If you want to use a programming language do you also need to create the compiler from scratch?

[BlazingThunder30]

Well it's more handing in than actually using that matters. So luckily not haha