"Why are universities still teaching this?" — viral jab at outdated intro CS homework
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-10-14
A viral post shares a screenshot of a university programming assignment asking students to pick off digits of an integer using // and % operators in a while loop, questioning why such exercises are still taught in the AI coding era.
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