so guize i took a test today

[Andor Drakon]

I signed a non-disclosure agreement to not talk about the questions for a test that is only taken once a year, at the same time on the same day?

Small world huh?

[Kybshe]

No, Andor, the world is huge.

Huge liek xbawkz.

But, what kind of dumbass test did you take?

[Andor Drakon]

The AP Computer Science A test. Neat stuff, but what from Coolreject tells me, I've only scratched the surface of cool stuff.

test said:

WRITE A METHOD CALLED DICE ROLLER, THAT CALLS ONE OF DIE'S METHODS, KNOWN AS ROLL. THE NUMBER OF TIMES YOU ROLL WILL BE BASED ON AN INTEGER VALUE YOU SEND THE METHOD. SEND BACK THESE ROLLS.


NOW ASSUME THAT WHAT YOU JUST DID ACTUALLY WORKED, WRITE A CLASS THAT WILL TAKE THE ROLLS YOU MADE AND FIND THE LONGEST CHAIN OF SAME CONSEQUTIVE NUMBERS.

ALSO YOU MUST SATISFY POST CONDITIONS STATED BELOW.

and to quote the multiple choice section

test said:

YOU'VE GOT THIS
!(!a != !b) && (!b <= a)

WHAT COULD IT ALSO BE!?!

(Because I'm too lazy to actually make the one that works, these are just random ones)

I: !(a == b) || (b >= !a)
II: a || b
III: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa && !b
IV: Shex

[Coolreject]

I remember I didn't study for the AP Computer Science test because I was in: "Senior year of high school, fuck it!" mode and my life was basically like the movie Superbad. I ended up only getting a 2 on it which was insufficient to get any credit for the college I decided to go to.

It didn't work out too bad in the end though, the introduction to CSE course that was taught in college was actually quite different from what was taught in high school so I did get some better habits and techniques out of it.

It's really cool though after a certain point in your CS book learning you get to the point where with the right documentation and APIs you can pretty much program anything. The profs will just assume that and end up teaching you all theory techniques and stuff. Then you get into the "science" part of the computer science stuff which is actually pretty interesting if you have the nerd boner for it.

[Andor Drakon]

Sounds like you get to the point where the only challenge is optimization, theory, and actually creating the framework for the program.

[Kybshe]

I always wanted to get into programming and then my highschool programming teacher left a bad taste in my mouth.

Also politics/law/international law makes me hot and bothered.

[Andor Drakon]

Kybshe said:

I always wanted to get into programming and then my highschool programming teacher left a bad taste in my mouth.

Don't worry man, I'm sure they've got counselors for people who were mouth raped by their teacher

[Coolreject]

Every comp sci teacher in my high school was awesome so I guess I'm lucky.

Also only like 9 kids were in my Comp Sci AP class so it was basically like nerd central and we all knew each other so the class was fucking hilarious.