Joining catastrophes in Sudan, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first 15-112 midterm has been declared a war crime by The Hague International Criminal Court.
A README reporter ventured into the wasteland that was DH 2210 last week, to document the disaster that experts are now calling ‘the worst curve in 14 years’.
Tensions ran high before the clock started. ~~Students~~ The detainees were required to provide IDs, and a proof of their own handwriting for identification purposes. Under heavy fire from ed, students were ordered not to stress and to get sleep before the examination, however many found these to be impossible feats.
The scene was thus: exhausted students, desperately writing lines by hand, because although technology has progressed to the point that we currently have text generating large language models and at least partially functioning virtual reality headsets, the Carnegie Mellon University (home of AI) Intro to Programming course’s midterm is still on paper. Godspeed if you don’t have an eraser, or worse, a pen.
The evil genius of this exam is in its deception. Compared to the practice test, the midterm’s first few questions were a breeze. No weird syntax for copying lists or definitions of MVC. It was suspiciously easy, meant to lull the students into a false sense of security which was then ripped to shreds with the third free response question (of four). Many students would skip it intending to return and never to do so.
Scientists report that there was, in fact, a temporary phenomenon of time dilation where individuals within DH 2210 from 9-10:20am and 2-3:30pm on the day of the midterm did experience time speed up during the last third of the exam.
With the conclusion of the exam came many questions between the sobs. “What will my parents say?”, “Who is responsible for this?”, “When was the 110 add deadline and is it too late to transfer to Pitt?”
Your humble writer now resigns to return to Gates and continue running their code until they see the sacred words… Passed sample test cases! Press 'Check' to run all test cases.
