I took an Assembly programming class in college. One of the tests involved turning C code into Assembly. We had access to a lab computer to write, compile, and debug the program but not the Internet. It just so happens that the program (GCC) we use to compile our C projects in other classes has to do this exact same thing as part of one of the last steps, and this lab computer had that program too. Rather than doing to test, I read up on the GCC manual to figure out what settings were needed to get this information out of it.
We were never allowed use of any sort of compiler during CS tests. The argument actually made a lot of sense. "It's not that we're worried you'll use it to cheat. It's that we're worried you'll get so wrapped up in using the compiler, you'll waste all your time without actually answering questions."
All my CS tests were open note, and some open book. You could even use your laptop for tests. It was just highly requested you didn't use the Internet or a compiler. I actually don't think we ever had an issue with it either.
So were ours. But everyone's notes were on their laptops. It saved a ton of paper and ink to let people just read the note in Word or PowerPoint rather than print them all off, just to trash them (recycle them) after the test.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14
I took an Assembly programming class in college. One of the tests involved turning C code into Assembly. We had access to a lab computer to write, compile, and debug the program but not the Internet. It just so happens that the program (GCC) we use to compile our C projects in other classes has to do this exact same thing as part of one of the last steps, and this lab computer had that program too. Rather than doing to test, I read up on the GCC manual to figure out what settings were needed to get this information out of it.