was a tiny payoff and you have less time for the remaining problems</p>

<p>The even more devastating outcome were students who just plain got stuck on a bug and never advanced past the first or second problem. No matter how much we advised students to draft a good answer and keep moving, if confronted with direct evidence that the answer was not fully correct it was near impossible to move on.</p>

<p>We know there are limitations to working without the benefit of a compiler and debugger, and we account fo