> > "IF YOU MUST MAKE STUDENTS TAKE EXAMS, STOP ASKING LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC SYNTATICAL QUESTIONS"
> I recall very little of this.
I recall quite a lot: every exam I took where I had to produce a program, minor syntax errors like forgetting a semicolon at the end of a line would cost me some points. I think this is an artefact from the old days of batch processing, when syntax errors where actually costly.
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> > "IF YOU MUST MAKE STUDENTS TAKE EXAMS, STOP ASKING LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC SYNTATICAL QUESTIONS"
> I recall very little of this.
I recall quite a lot: every exam I took where I had to produce a program, minor syntax errors like forgetting a semicolon at the end of a line would cost me some points. I think this is an artefact from the old days of batch processing, when syntax errors where actually costly.