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Written by Mia Rose @ fosdem :v_greyace: :v_bi: on 2025-01-28 at 21:11

The prof for the lecture I do Tutorium at was very worried all semester because last term a biiiig amount of students failed the exam, so he wanted us to look out for people this term. For this purpose, the last two weeks each week we would do a test exam that's just a previous term ones

This week (today) it was that exam from last term and yea.

Everyone scored horribly except the nerd and I can see why. The level of comprehension you need for some of those tasks is way too high for first term students that might never coded before and don't have a coding brain yet. This exam is essentialy easy to solve if you can think like a software architect, in minutes, and near impossible if you don't.

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Written by Mia Rose @ fosdem :v_greyace: :v_bi: on 2025-01-28 at 21:38

let's give this as a task to fedi

this is your challenge: https://txt.miawinter.de/oDaD

the code you are given looks as follows:

ASCENDING, DESCENDING, OSCILLATING, CONSTANT

}

static public C_SequenceCategory getSequenceCategory(final int[] sequence) {

}

what is your solution.

How difficult do you rate this for someone who has only learned programming over the last 4 months?

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Written by Mia Rose @ fosdem :v_greyace: :v_bi: on 2025-01-28 at 21:40

maybe to make this more quantifiable:

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Written by insane :birdroll: on 2025-01-29 at 20:50

@MiaWinter I started learning a year ago as I'm going through my CS programme. And this looks easy. However, I'd prefer to solve it using C++ rather than Java (even though I could use either of those).

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Written by Mia Rose @ fosdem :v_greyace: :v_bi: on 2025-01-29 at 20:50

@insane just because it looks easy doesn't mean it is

I encourage you to try and solve it :neocat_pat:

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Toot

Written by insane :birdroll: on 2025-01-29 at 20:52

@MiaWinter Sure, maybe tomorrow? It's almost 3 @ night here (yet I'm still awake 😋). Good night.

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