Oh god I remember doing that too. Those “programs” were the best. I even mad sure to make the code long, so that even if someone thought to take a look at the code they would have to scroll for a while to find the notes.
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Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 week agoI did the same thing. It was allowed in general, with the correct thought, “if you can code it yourself, you know the content”
I had another “program” that would fail to run but that’s because I wrote notes into it. Doubt that was allowed.
UNY0N@lemmy.world 2 days ago
thejml@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I did that but made it return success before it got to the notes. You had to scroll to get to the notes, but it looked innocuous before that.
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.
piecat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.
I wrote a sudoku “editor”
I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down, and then I learned the hard way what p vs np is.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
They did that here too, but students would use a cheat program that made it look like teachers were resetting it, but really the memory was safe
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
My memory is pretty hazy but the cheat application emulated the process that teachers used to do a system reset.
Iirc, it let you press menu, select reset, confirm, and showed the (fake) confirmation screen.
Also IIRC, you had to install it from Mirage OS, which I don’t think was an OS (?) but rather an app that everyone had to play games from.