<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Chapter 2 of the Michael Jackson book has lots of discussion of coding and debugging on paper. It also quotes a boast by Dijkstra that none of the examples in his book have been tested on a computer.<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Sep 2, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Claus Pias <<a href="mailto:pias@leuphana.de">pias@leuphana.de</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="">…just wanted to add that I made the very same experience when studying electrical engineering in the mid 1980’s at RWTH Aachen in Germany. I also vaguely remember that one of the written exams had to be done by ‚pen and paper‘ programming. </div><div class="">So I wonder how long this method was practiced and how long the period of retention for written exams lasts in Germany — but with a little luck you may find materials from generations of students in the examination office’s archives of technical universities… ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best, Claus</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 02.09.2015 um 19:10 schrieb Molly Des Jardin <<a href="mailto:mdesjardin@gmail.com" class=""><a href="mailto:mdesjardin@gmail.com">mdesjardin@gmail.com</a></a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">when I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">was a CS undergrad at Pitt 1999-2003 we had to write code (pseudocode</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">and otherwise) by hand and create flow charts on paper and whiteboards</span><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">for class.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class="">––<br class=""><br class="">Dr. Claus Pias<br class="">Leuphana University Lüneburg<br class="">Wallstr. 3<br class="">D - 21335 Lüneburg<br class=""><br class="">Chair for History and Epistemology of Media (ICAM)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://www.leuphana.de/institute/icam.html" class=""><a href="http://www.leuphana.de/institute/icam.html">http://www.leuphana.de/institute/icam.html</a></a><br class=""><br class="">Institute for Advanced Study in Media-Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS) // Director<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://mecs.leuphana.de">http://mecs.leuphana.de</a><br class=""><br class="">Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) // Director<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://cdc.leuphana.com/about/<br class=""><br class="">Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL) // PI<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/digital-cultures-research-lab/<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>This email is relayed from members at <a href="http://sigcis.org">sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/">http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org"><a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org">http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org</a></a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>