Today is the day of my Programming Principles 1A Examination, which shall be quite an enduring session.

One of the worst parts of the whole examination is having to write out code by hand onto paper, without having the luxury of a compiler to tell you of any slight mistakes you have made in any of your code. Not to mention the fiddle little bits of Java or any language for that matter that just seem so cluttered written out by hand in pen.

Now most people know that my hand-writing is not the greatest ever, its just slightly messy and when you combine that with the code complexity issue above you end up with pages full of code that looks like crap, no matter how functional it may actually be. Why is that indenting never seems to work when your doing it all by hand?

The worst part however are the braces ( { } ) that you need to use for so much of Java, they turn out horribly deformed when i draw them by hand mainly due to me trying to centre the little peak like kink in the line that never works out.

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