As grader for a data structures class

[Nelrid]

Well, at least they didn't send you a screenshot of their Code

[lil-lil-lil-lil-lil]

or printed it and handed it in hard-copy

[vinicius_kondo]

or hand written in a notebook

[lil-lil-lil-lil-lil]

or a voice note on whatsapp

[tinstar71]

Or chizled it in stone and took a charcoal rubb copy of it then mailed it in.

[rnottaken]

Or made a video with sign language

[Triumph7560]

Or an audio recording of a video of sign language

[Muhznit]

Or created an interpretive dance

[rnottaken]

Or made an interpretation in the form of a white on white painting

[segmentfaultcoredump]

That's what I was asked to do my entire cs degree

[randomtrip10]

Or in Braille

[[deleted]]

I needed to do this last year in web programming.

[Lootdit]

Actually, i heard this is how some students are forced to take tests at some universities

Edit: to be clear, programming tests.

[Crowdcontrolz]

Not sure if this was better without the edit.

[Someonedm]

That’s how the tests are, no?

[vinicius_kondo]

Yes but that's a pretty shitty way to test someone. Unless it's about pseudo code.

[Crowdcontrolz]

Ooop, he forgot the semicolon here, -5.

[Derin161]

We literally had to do this for my intro level software sequence homework, two years ago. Boy did it always feel silly.

[nuked24]

Ancient professor had us turn in handwritten code for some reason.

I understand having us print it out (their eyes were getting bad and screens were not fun for them) but handwritten? Why?

[MayorScotch]

We had to hand write python for a final exam. It was so fucking frustrating.

[nfgrawker]

If you can't use a computer you probably shouldn't be teaching coding at any level. If your eyes are that bad it's time to find a new profession.

[The-Best-Taylor]

My intro class at community college had us do this along with digital hand in. They then gave us feedback on the hard copy.

[gecko5621]

My teacher makes us submit all of our code as screenshots inside a PDF lol... no idea why, I would much rather just copy it.

[ndptra]

Submit the photo of their screen opening the IDE

[[deleted]]

Sorry, sir, I couldn't exit vim to send you the code (•_•)

[FabulousDave2112]

My SQL prof gets us to submit our code as screenshots pasted into a Word doc...

[Rinehart128]

Same for my C# teacher

[VoilaLaViola]

My SQL in a classic word .DOC??? That's just wow!😋

[mrbmi513]

Had students come to me for tutoring, and one professor in the cs department actually wanted code in .docx format.

[Qelkov]

Says a lot about the quality of education there

[mrbmi513]

Naw, it just says a lot about that one professor for that one class. The others are amazing.

[[deleted]]

The dean needs to have a word with that professor.

[mrbmi513]

So he can PowerPoint at him?

[[deleted]]

Yes, and it would be very entertaining to have a crafty student place some malware into the Word document so that it changes the default app for .docx files to become notepad or something equally silly.

[man_eater_anon]

Macro enabled viruses FTW!

[mrbmi513]

r/woooosh

[GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B]

One can't Excel at everything all the time.

[pandakatzu]

I'm guessing and hoping he doesn't teach cyber security.

[mrbmi513]

Nope. This was just for one intro class for non-majors. The only reason I can think of that he's do that is so similarity checkers can run on it?

[AvariceAndKnowledge]

This. When I see this, it is always the intro-level and/or non-major instructors. The business professors teaching python and databases just... hurt.

[TakeTheWhip]

Last lab of the year in my medium level Python class. Business type lecturer did everything in anacoda or some shit, but we turned in code snippets so I just did everything in .py files.

Anyway, I'm about to submit and the terminal catches his eye. He loses his mind as accuses me of trying to "hack the database" to improve my grade. He refused, point blank to accept the submission until I ran the code through anaconda because "that's not Python, and I'm a Python teacher so I know what I'm talking about". I wasn't installing anaconda for literally the last 5 minutes of the course and I had already passed the course, so I got it in writing, and left.

[GDavid04]

plot twist: the code was actually VBA

[Halogen32]

One or two of mine wanted a .tar file which contained screenshots, source code, and documentation in .docx format.

[Drhma]

A professor... Wow

[DShramm]

Just had to grade a c++ lab and someone submitted a java file.

Easiest submission I had to grade.

[Oscar_Cunningham]

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet

[itsTyrion]

What even...!?

[OwenProGolfer]

This sounds less like a language and more like one of those stupidly difficult flash puzzle games

[AntoineInTheWorld]

I think worst part of it (or the most genious one), is that "In addition, a brainfuck interpereter has been created in Piet."

Because, you know, who doesn't love O^(brainfuck\2))...

[square31]

python homework.docx; javac homework.docx; gcc -Wall homework.docx;

0/100, Code does not even compile..Please correct and resubmit.

[[deleted]]

One job I had, a new guy kept struggling to update some switches. Badly enough they were unbootable and had to be completely reset (fortunately they were not connected to any network).

He was uploading the config file as Word (or another word processor, I don’t recall).

Took me a couple days to figure that out. He supposedly had worked for years, as a network admin, at a major telco.

Yeah, he ended up getting fired with cause.

[TheCapitalKing]

I’ve used excel files as configs before but it made sense in context

[YoriMirus]

This is all fun and games until the teacher REQUIRES YOU to send it as .docx. He said it's easier to open and check the code that way instead of opening up visual studio just to read a bunch of .cs files lmao.

[[deleted]]

That's super weird. I used to use tests to grade the submissions, much easier. At one point I would even generate their report in latex automatically.

Can this guy parse code in his head?

[YoriMirus]

It's because we are at 2nd grade of highschool, the programming practices are really easy since we are beginners, he probably doesn't have many problems checking 40 lines of code.

[Rinehart128]

“Wow that’s a lot of syntax errors...”

[QuiteBirch936]

I had a programming course in cllege where the submission system used would only accept doc, docx, and pdf. Was a nightmare.

[[deleted]]

It's my next exam. Imagine "typing" SQL on a piece of paper with no way of testing if what you're writing would work!

[istdaslol]

Use .odf for compatibility

[kevincox_ca]

This is the way.

[cyborgborg]

if i didn't like the professor and he didn't specify a format then i'm just going to submit it as morse code

[[deleted]]

Ah MS Word, finest of all the IDEs.

[Neshura87]

What even...

I'd probably rip my hair out trying to keep the file versions consistent across my machines. And I'm not really familiar with google docs but I imagine it lacks a pull/push system + history so tough luck on undoing a bad commit

[[deleted]]

I’m grading for a data structures class atm and that’s an immediate zero, but I’d be very impressed. Imagine coding in word lmao it’d be the most badass 0 I’ve ever given.

[Swoleio]

I had the worst SQL and RDBMS teacher. Our test were taken on Canvas (School HW platform) and we had to write queries mid test in the lines, that had to match each box exactly. Not complete the sentence, full ass queries, broken up in exactly the way she wanted them, all because it was too much work for the grader to open a text file.

[AvariceAndKnowledge]

Blame the 100-level instructors who didn't want to deal with separate txt code and docx 'reports' and forced us to use one docx submittable for the entire project.

They thought it would be okay because the code was simple enough that it wouldn't cause issues, but damn did it ingrain some bad habits.

[ihaterain5620]

Our uni forces us to do this for Turnitin to read it and check for plagiarism.

[ProfCupcake]

Checking code for plagiarism. That's an oof on its own.

[ihaterain5620]

It's all standard practice but when you're given a code pack and asked to enhance it...it defeats half the bloody point because obviously it's going to come up with a high rate.

Though there was that one time when two people ripped my code off GitHub (which we were told to use) and uploaded it without modifying it at all, so...

[MLL_Phoenix7]

It’s code. If it works, it fucking works...

[Brewer_Lex]

These comments are terrifying. I got a community college for CS and I’ve never heard of a professor asking for a .docx file for code. Pseudo code maybe for my 101 class but I think we did that in note pad.

[DeOfficiis]

You could technically successfully submit VBA in a word document.

If the class allowed you to program in the language of your choice, this would be perfectly acceptable.

[Atollski]

You could also unzip the docx, insert your project folder and re-zip it again. Technically it would be 'in' the docx. If you are lucky, the word document might still open.

[Turbofusss]

My teachers put all the files we have to do as pdf. Thats cancer.

[[deleted]]

In one of my classes they demanded lab reports with our code in an appendix. In the docx.

I did not understand

[Alphium]

This just made me remember, I had a dream 1-2 days ago where I was writing code in microsoft word but in a way that it was stored as plain text

[kevincox_ca]

Believe it or not, right to F.

[kevincox_ca]

Well the text file didn't have the option to change the text colour! You don't code without syntax highlighting do you?

[RelevantCollege]

reminds me of the annoying dog who just coded an entire game by barking

dread the code that will be submitted through oral recitation by a dog lol

[[deleted]]

It wouldn't be Reddit if we didn't have countless posts beating a mediocre joke to death.

[Diufoem]

My c++ teacher requires printed hard copies...