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My CS undergrad school used to let students look up documentation during coding exams. Most courses had a 3-5 hour coding challenge where you had to make substantial changes to a course project you had developed. I think this could also be the right response to LLMs. Let students use whatever they want to use, and test true skills and understanding.

FWIW, exams testing rote learning without the ability to look up things would have been much easier. It was really stressful to sit down and make major changes to your project to satisfy new unit tests, which often targeted edge cases and big O complexity to crash your code.




That is a great idea!

Most students would find getting their hands dirty in this way more valuable than reading about something from start to end.


Yes, it led to well-rounded learning. But we had too many courses and, overall, I think it was too much. All CS courses had a theoretical exam, some project-based learning, and some coding exam to prevent cheating in the project-based learning part.




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