alt Hacker News> That being said. I have no idea how you'd actually go about teaching students CS these days, considering a lot of them will probably use ChatGPT or Claude regardless of what you do.
My son is in a CS school in France. They have finals with pen and paper, with no computer whatsoever during the exam; if they can't do that they fail. And these aren't multiple choice questions, but actual code that they have to write.
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WalterBright • yesterday at 4:59 PM
I wrote code in a spiral notebook because the mainframe was not available to me at home.
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I had to do that too, in Norway. Writing C++ code with pen and paper and being told even trivial syntax errors like missing semicolons would be penalised was not fun.
This was 30 years ago, though - no idea what it is like now. It didn't feel very meaningful even then.
But there's a vast chasm between that and letting people use AI in an exam setting. Some middle ground would be nice.