&#39;Will A Rape Victim Kill Herself?&#39; Asks Awful ExamS
Computer science classes are notoriously difficult because
there's a lot of math, a lot of code translation, and a lot of
logic involved. Well, actually, the logic part may not be a
strong argument considering the question an instructor at
Memorial University in Canada put on his exam.  Check it out:
John Shieh may not have been thinking that the question pictured
at left might cause such backlash when he was writing it, but he
may have not been thinking at all, considering that he literally
asked his students to write a program that would determine if a
rape victim would commit suicide based on her experience. I
imagine he was trying to make the assignment interesting, but
what kind of person thinks "man, I really want to connect to my
students and make the assignments applicable to real-life
situations. I should probably bring in a violent sexual assault
and see how my students react to the problem." Unsurprisingly,
students aren't reacting well