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[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago

Yea, it's pseudo code.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
function print(str) {
  console.log(str)
}

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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

run this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

How do you know what language this is?