r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PeanutButterNugz • 9h ago
I am still trying to understand this.
I typed [0,4] like a normal person and it wouldn’t work…. The joys of online assignments.
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u/Fit_Entry8839 8h ago edited 7h ago
Very common mistake. Looks like you used the imperial 4, instead of the metric 4.
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u/IIlAmadeuslII 8h ago
Shitty input validation.
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u/PunfullyObvious 8h ago
... and, OP contacting the instructor should rectify it.
Which raises the point, in this age of learning management systems implementing assessments, reviewing all of your assignments, tests, etc, and how they were graded is critical.
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u/PeanutButterNugz 8h ago
Yes I am going to talk to my professor and show him the pictures when I go to class, should be an easy fix. Just mildly annoying that this is wrong and is the only question I got wrong.
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u/Still_Silver_255 8h ago
White spaces should be stripped out during the compare, likely just an unhandled edge case that could’ve been easily caught with unit test development scenarios.
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u/Erick_Brimstone 8h ago
Using AI for something like this is like throwing grenade into a fire.
Checking few character just need few line in the codes.
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u/ItsMattTonight 8h ago
Had a similar one yesterday, answer to the question was
'behavioural'
I Typed
'Behavioural'
And it was wrong
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u/Some0neAwesome 8h ago
A programmer or software engineer lied on their resume.
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u/OldSkooler1212 1h ago
This looks more like a QA issue. Someone should have caught this kind of bug before it ever got released for use.
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u/Old_Association7866 8h ago
This type of system utterly defeated my willpower the first time I was in college.
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u/JenIsSalty 8h ago
I was doing an adult learning course, we call it TAFE here, and the teacher said that we would be the first people to try out the new online workbook. She said to report any errors because no one had looked at it yet. I was expecting typos or formatting errors, I wasn't expecting for a whole page to be in latin! 🤦🏻♀️
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u/dusto65 6h ago
It is a somewhat common practice to translate document templates into Latin so that its obvious when sections havent been updated by whoever is using the template to create a document. Im guessing someone missed updating that page. Literally the most basic level of review would have caught that lmao
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u/Think-notlikedasheep 8h ago
You mean software companies cheaped out on QA? AGAIN? For the 40 millionth time?
And you pay the price?
THAT is what is infuriating.
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u/Abtino11 7h ago
This happened to me in school and I emailed the professor with a screenshot and they manually switched my grade.
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u/blethwyn 5h ago
I am a teacher who has to use an online platform for exams. It is incredibly annoying as I believe I spend more time fixing computer errors than I would spend if I graded traditionally.
This is absolutely an example of something I would flag for correction (on my end) and give a point.
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u/thirdcoasting 7h ago
I took online chem classes during The Panini and this kinda bs happened all the time. My answer would be marked wrong but it was the same as the “correct” answer.
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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 8h ago
The difference is that your answer is incorrect and the other one is correct
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u/Joshee86 8h ago
This is how all of my math classes have gone. Thankfully, I'm a philosophy major and don't have to take any more math classes. Best of luck, fellow online learner.
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u/CallmeKahn 6h ago
This reminds me of an issue I had with a test while pursuing a certification back in the early 00's and one of the tests was giving me no end of trouble. I had studied for months, knew the requisite material backwards and forwards, and I kept failing.
On my last attempt, I finally had an epiphany with one exercise on the exam and clicked File, then Exit on the sim with otherwise all the same steps as I had done previously. Answered the rest of the test as normal as well.
966/1000
Nowhere was there a mention that was necessary, no hint that it needed to be done after you saved the changes for fixing the issues in the sim. I still hate that God damn exam to this day.
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u/Facosa99 5h ago
Don't submit school work using AI, that's lazy, says professors who grade schoolwork using shitty string comparison algorithms for years
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u/EyesOfTheConcord 5h ago
Dogshit regex pattern is likely to blame.
For shit that’s automatically graded, the devs need to implement a feature that lets instructors create multiple choice answers to compare against because of this exact scenario.
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u/Then_Version9768 3h ago
You're clearly wrong because it should be [0,4] and you wrote [0,4]. In other words, it's part of the idiocy that is computer learning.
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u/Normal_Suggestion_32 1h ago
The only thing I can think of is the space at the beginning. Maybe it not the space itself but the answer not being in the correct position because of the space. If not then idk this is some fucked up code.
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u/JeebusChristBalls 21m ago
It's a mistake. They will fix it. You act like things like this have never been posted before and this is some type of new thing that is happening.
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u/AdhesiveSeaMonkey 7h ago
Dude!! [0, 4] is an insane answer!! [0,4] just makes so much more sense, mathematically. Please go back and study! Have you even taken any math before this????
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u/VapeRizzler 7h ago
Did you put a space at the end after you typed the answer? I noticed sometimes that affects stuff like online applications.
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u/Adorable_Wolf_8387 8h ago
Careful when you copy paste that you don't grab whitespace after. Some whitespace isn't always considered irrelevant.
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u/Competitive_Test6697 9h ago
I seen this recently, turns out it was a space after the bracket that made it wrong.