Remember Writing Codes on Paper? (no fancy ide)
Here is how I mastered it
Test and exam days were dreaded. They meant writing codes on paper. And for us students, it meant you played the function of an ide. Thus, debugging while writing the code to a question; was by no means optimal.
Yet, that never stopped anybody from using the formula. I recall my first coding class. It was C++, there was object-oriented and structured programming before that, but that was to cover the basis:
- Natural language
- Pseudocode
- Flowchart
- Object-oriented programming paradigms, etc.
C plus plus was my first programming language before Java, Visual Basic, Html, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, and Php. These were the languages I got introduced to while in the University.
Test days were more of anticipating where the question was going to come from. The class handout (PDF) and the previous year’s group exam papers were as cheat codes. Oblivious, we had no clue the tests were random internet problems.
So memorizing the codes from past questions and pdfs wouldn’t do. It took analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and a strategy to ace the tests.