[moizk]

I use to write programs in HS for these things that helped me during math tests.

[ssharp]

I would occasionally bury stuff in programs that shouldn't have been there. I was afraid that the teacher might look at my programs and if there was a functional program, would realize what I was doing, so I'd usually have a code language that I could easily decipher but wouldn't be easily figured out by someone else.

I probably gave my teachers too much credit, but the classes that could use calculators were usually taught by teachers who knew about programming the things.

[biggc]

Chances are, if you were able to program the algorithms required to solve the problems, you understood them well enough or more than enough to pass the course.

[syncsynchalt]

Yes but you can copy a program more easily than you can "copy" the knowledge behind it.

What happens when one kid writes a quadratic solver and gives it to half the class?

[Crito]

Definitely not the case for me. I had as many books and websites as I needed while creating those programs, but did not have them available during tests.

[emehrkay]

I am a developer today because I used to write little programs that helped me cheat in high school and college.