Reminds me something that happened to me at CS school : I was in first year, and for some projects, it was third years students who were grading us. And for one project, the third year student grading me said : “your code is too short, I’ll take points out for that”. I was really shocked. I complained and got a teaher give me back the points, but I’m still shocked someone can consider having a program to be worth less because it has less code—not because it lacked features, or it had bugs, or the code was unreadable (it was C code, so it’s easy to make it unreadable by making it too short, but that was not the case, he removed the points before even reading the code).
How can people be so irrational in 3rd year of a CS engineering school (which, in french system, starts after “prepa”, so he was in fact 5 years after the end of high school—almost had a master degree) ?
On the contrary, essays should also be evaluated on features, bugs, and readability. If you can satisfy all of those criteria with a small number of words, so much the better.
Reminds me something that happened to me at CS school : I was in first year, and for some projects, it was third years students who were grading us. And for one project, the third year student grading me said : “your code is too short, I’ll take points out for that”. I was really shocked. I complained and got a teaher give me back the points, but I’m still shocked someone can consider having a program to be worth less because it has less code—not because it lacked features, or it had bugs, or the code was unreadable (it was C code, so it’s easy to make it unreadable by making it too short, but that was not the case, he removed the points before even reading the code).
How can people be so irrational in 3rd year of a CS engineering school (which, in french system, starts after “prepa”, so he was in fact 5 years after the end of high school—almost had a master degree) ?
Perhaps they were influenced by other more familiar “student-produced work” scenarios:
An essay can be too short.
On the contrary, essays should also be evaluated on features, bugs, and readability. If you can satisfy all of those criteria with a small number of words, so much the better.