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Exam Answer (programming.dev)

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[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The answer is 6. It's 6 characters long.

[-] potustheplant@feddit.nl -2 points 7 months ago

Not really, no. That would be the answer if x= len(day). The code in the image would just throw an error.

[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 63 points 7 months ago

Yea, it's pseudo code.

[-] flumph@programming.dev 25 points 7 months ago

"Monday".length is working JavaScript and does equal 6. No print command afaik though.

[-] dvlsg@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

There technically is!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/print

Well. In browsers, anyways.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 7 months ago

Yes, but it prints the page, so in this case it wouldn't print anything

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

function print(str) {
  console.log(str)
}

FTFY

[-] force@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

no it wouldn't, because this is OCR reference language

run this

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

What the heck, did someone invent a programming language, so students wouldn't have to learn any real ones?

[-] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago

Having done OCR GCSE computing:
It's just a pseudocode style language that they use in exam questions so that you can understand the question regardless of which language your school had you study (in my case it was VB6 💀). In questions where you are asked to write code, you can use the reference language but realistically you just use the one you learned (although I did it all in python instead)