Programming Exams
Reminder to self for what I found helpful (apart from just practising coding):
Treating it like any ‘language’ exam and revising the ‘vocab’ ie the different methods that can be used to perform certain operations; the syntax required to perform such methods
Revising common methods/ways of doing things
Reading ‘model’ codes ie what other people have said, and getting ideas for how to solve a certain problem (note: it’s like how there are many ways of saying the same sentence...but people express things in different ways)
During the exam:
Reading the question properly, and thinking about how I would solve the problem before committing to any code; jotting this down on a piece of paper so I had the ‘recipe’ to the code I wanted to write (this also comes in handy if you run out of time! Can at least hand reviewers your plain English ‘recipe’)
Sitting back from the screen if I was leaning too far in; just taking a deep breath.
Focus on one question at a time; if one is too difficult, move on and save it for later
