Jess, Thomas, and I proctored the midterms for CS 21 A sections C and D.
The moment I walked into the room, the classes let out a collective cry. It's the sort of high emotion that terror teachers find intoxicating (or so I've heard...)
Anyway, as the papers were being handed in, I was dismayed that some people overthought what we considered to be giveaway questions. For example: Given the code
public class Hello
{
//the usual "hello world!" code
}
the question was TRUE or FALSE: the code has to be saved in a file with name Hello.java.
A lot of people answered FALSE.
A follow up TRUE or FALSE question was: for a run-time error to occur, a program must first compile successfully.
Once again, a lot of people answered FALSE.
We have failed...
