I just saw this rant: https://devrant.io/rants/841846/ which gave me flashbacks of my first programming class using C#.

Our professor made us write for the whole semester our code using a pen and paper (for tests).

Her grading was "easy." She would write the code in the computer exactly as we wrote it. If it compiles, you got an A, if not, you got an F.

The average test would take at least 5 pages...

Overall it was an interesting class, and I have to admit that I learned a lot.

We had the pascal class in uni that had a two step test we had to take to be qualified to take an exam. The 1st step was to correct the source code as some lines had errors, the 2nd part was to write a compile-able program for a small task.

All on paper, of course.

And yes, if we did a single mistake, that would result in a compilation or logic error - test was deemed to be failed.

@olezhka I have never used Pascal, so I don't know how hard it is. I just remember that I had three notebooks filled with code and programs from that class at the end of the semester.

It was not hard I guess. I failed three times because I could not remember the syntax right. You could say I was not a capable learner. Still, got it somehow in the end :D

@olezhka I still don't even know how I passed the class. I didn't had a computer at the time.
In my second semester, for my first rest in a computer, there were two programs to do. The professor said which one should do every student. We had two hours to finish it. For some reason I fucked up and did the other one instead of the one she told me. I spent 1.5 hrs doing it. She didn't accept it because it wasn't the program that she assigned to me even though it was working. For some miracle I managed to do the other one just in time. She gave me extra credit at the end :D

@Archer04 sweet! Living on the edge!!