• piecat@lemmy.world
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      Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.

      I wrote a sudoku “editor”

      I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down. And when it was time to implement the solver, I learned the hard way what p vs np is.

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      They did that here too, but students would use a cheat program that made it look like teachers were resetting it, but really the memory was safe

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        I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.

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          My memory is pretty hazy but the cheat application emulated the process that teachers used to do a system reset.

          Iirc, it let you press menu, select reset, confirm, and showed the (fake) confirmation screen.

          Also IIRC, you had to install it from Mirage OS, which I don’t think was an OS (?) but rather an app that everyone had to play games from.