On: The software development final exam: Algorithms an...

[irahul]

> I wonder about the utility of an exam that one can ace with five minutes of googling.

I won't debate the utility of the exam, but the majority of the tests I have taken can be aced with five minutes of googling.

[ataggart → irahul]

Likewise for myself. Though I suspect that it's because testing for memory is easier than testing for knowledge, especially when one can simply assume that the former accomplishes the latter.