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Computer Science 4w
I lost 20 points on an assignment for having a typo in my code, I wanna kms
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Anonymous 4w

Yall lucky you didnt have to take an exam where you had to code on paper 😭

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Anonymous 4w

Update: Got 15 points back by talking to the TA about it 😄

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Anonymous 4w

I TA CS1 and an an extremely harsh grader but that seems downright draconian. What was the typo

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

That’s all we have and it makes up a majority of your grade. If you even miss a semicolon you lose points.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

Oh I do dw

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

Printing out “output1 instead of output2”

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

This is standard

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Yeah that’s pretty wild, couple points at most and I think maybe two of my students have As

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