Comment on Anon cheats through college

Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s super easy to learn how algorithms and what not work without knowing the syntax of a language. I can tell you how a binary search tree works, but I have no clue how to code it in Java because I’ve never used Java.

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  • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And similarly, i could read code in a language I dont know, understand what it does and how it works even if I don’t know the syntax well enough to write it myself

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, exactly. At least any fairly modern language. I don’t think I could just pick up assembly and read it without the class I took. Heck, I don’t think I could read it anymore now that it’s been several years since that class.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean same, but you can look to the official docs for like what a loop or queue looks like

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not during a test. But maybe in those 20 hours they have.

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      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh right I forgot about closed book tests. Been a while

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• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m a full stack polyglot and tbh I couldn’t program in some languages without reference docs / LLM even though I ship production code in those language all the time. Memorizing all of the function and method names and all of the syntax/design pattern stuff is pretty hard especially when it’s not really needed in contemporary dev.

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  • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah a doctor has to read up on a disease in a book when they encounter it. Completely normal

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’d think that, but I believe you are underestimating people’s ability to mindlessly memorize stuff without learning it.

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  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s what we’re trained to do throughout our education system.

    I have a hard time getting mad about it considering it’s what we told them to do.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure chatgpt just tells you how it works, so they probably just memorized what it said.

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• sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Exactly my thought

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