>professor makes programming quiz >mixes "which of

It means you are lacking reading comprehension.

It means without this faggotry the test would have been too easy

>>62311827
>what did he mean by this?
he meant "pay attention to what you're doing". That's an important skill for programming and computers in general.

>>62311851
Its a fucking load of shit. You are not assessing reading comprehension you are assessing theory and practical experience in cs/etc.

>>62311870
So what if you're writing code to implement a given spec and slip a "not" somewhere in reading it? At the very least you'll cause yourself a debugging headache, and at worst you might produce something that works while giving incorrect results.

If you're not keen on concentrating on a task computers are not a good line of work for you to be in. Maybe you can breeze through shit now but you will get to much more complicated projects that will demand that you think closely about them.

>>62311917
Its a dumb argument and I'll tell you why. When you are thumbing through the spec you can do so at your leisure you are not timed like in a test. Also when you are in real life you are have not been fully focused on learning a given a concept or skill etc. What they do is plain and simple misdirection to create their marking curve.

>>62311956
What are you going to say next? That attendance should matter?

>>62311956
Well, keep telling yourself that, I guess. You might think it's unfair and underhanded, but so is the real world.

>>62311977
No you keep telling yourself that you're being fair by making tests like this.

>>62311851

This.

You should be thankful you know exactly what your mistakes were and why you made them. It's not always a given in college.

In programming one typo can fuck your code completely. This is the same, except with a massive all caps bold NOT so you can't miss it.

>>62312047
Fair enough