This is why you're wrong

You face a stark choice: prove I am again wrong, and risk my egocentric wrath. Or don't prove I'm wrong, and loose the 10 points on this problem. Do whichever you think best.


This is why you're wrong.


Not the answer I wanted, but sadly I see no flaw in your argument.

Just put a big X

Thanks to Jacob for sending us his university computer science test:

What is context switching? What information needs to be saved when performing a context switch? Explain the tradeoff in performing context switching very frequently and very infrequently.


Context switching is where the environment the OS is...
Yeah... I missed this one completely. Just put a big X next to this problem.

P=NP ?

This is for all my computer science hommies out there!

Magic Smoke

Mike wrote:Here is an assignment I got back from my EECE class.  I got the last question wrong, but earned a +1 for the witty "Magic Smoke" comment.  Thumbs up for TAs with a sense of humor!


Thanks Mike, I seem to remember answering a few questions this way in my day, but I never had the same success. Nice work!

Free Crayons

The Essay Rickroll

The Intertubes is all a twitter about a student who RickRoll'd his professor by embedding "Never Gonna Give You Up" in his essay in a very unique way.

Check it out for yourself:

FIVE out of FIVE stars for this guy!

Original Source: BuzzFeed

Richard Stallman and Steve Jobs

This one goes out to all my computer programming hommies on the interwebs!

Thanks to Roland at Busted Carbon for this one.

Thomas The Tank Engine

More than meets the eye!

Bored? Read about constructors, iterators, observers and mutators!

Barrel Shifter

OMG, I love this one!

Teacher comment on the bottom: Nearly!

The answer is in the question

Thanks to Jeff for this one:

You face a stark choice: prove I am again wrong, and risk my egocentric wrath. Or don't prove I'm wrong, and loose the 10 points on this problem. Do whichever you think best.

This is why you're wrong

Not the answer I wanted, but sadly I see no flaw in your argument.


Student: congratulations you win this round.
Teacher: your spell checker won't help you on this one...

The Wizard

I think this just exemplifies how stupid the name 'wizard' is for 'a user interface element where the user is presented with a sequence of dialog boxes'.

Extra Credit

Extra Credit (2 points)
Draw a picture. Be creative!

You have to admit that the teacher was basically asking for it what he/she made a bonus question like that. Kudos to the teacher for following through on the bonus marks!

Robot Attack!!!

Here's what the test says in case you can't read it:

The substring methods - one of them ... I don't know, I was thinking about robots at the time.

Nice drawing of a robot!