Yup---16/20 on my midterm. Brought my grade from an A down to a B. Ideally, it should go back up with attendance points and an extra credit option he has made available added in
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I never liked tests. At least not tests where there are certain right and wrong answers.
In the real world, especially in programming, if you make a mistake, the program doesn't work, and you fix it. You keep fixing it until it does work. And for other more trivial matters of who did what, where, when, so long as you have the general ideas and the underlying concepts well understood, the specifics don't matter. That's what books and computers are for.
Now, programming theory and judgement on how to best write programs is a little more of a grey area, and can be judged based on non-boolean characteristics. By the same token, it's ideas that matter, not specifics, at least in my opinion when it comes to testing.
In this case, I can see pretty easily right and wrong. If it rotates the way it was supposed to, it's right; otherwise, it's wrong. As for the non-programming portions, right and wrong are very clear-cut, too--multiply matrices, determine the correct trig formula, etc.
Otherwise, I agree, and so have my instructors. If it works, it's correct, if it doesn't, it doesn't. All of this instructor's exams are open book, note, and computer (including internet).
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In the real world, especially in programming, if you make a mistake, the program doesn't work, and you fix it. You keep fixing it until it does work. And for other more trivial matters of who did what, where, when, so long as you have the general ideas and the underlying concepts well understood, the specifics don't matter. That's what books and computers are for.
Now, programming theory and judgement on how to best write programs is a little more of a grey area, and can be judged based on non-boolean characteristics. By the same token, it's ideas that matter, not specifics, at least in my opinion when it comes to testing.
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Otherwise, I agree, and so have my instructors. If it works, it's correct, if it doesn't, it doesn't. All of this instructor's exams are open book, note, and computer (including internet).
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