> I remember thinking that math classes would be far more interesting if we were allowed to hand in a program to solve the class of problems they were asking us to manually and repeatedly solve, and to bring that program to the exam
With programmable graphing calculator that's sorta possible. At least, I've done it a few times.
Alas, it was most often banned from exams because "I can't see what you have done there to get that answer".
Also, most of the class ended up using my program for a specific class of problems we had to do in maths. In retrospect, I probably caused some harm by getting my classmates to be that lazy during exams.
With programmable graphing calculator that's sorta possible. At least, I've done it a few times.
Alas, it was most often banned from exams because "I can't see what you have done there to get that answer".
Also, most of the class ended up using my program for a specific class of problems we had to do in maths. In retrospect, I probably caused some harm by getting my classmates to be that lazy during exams.