[dragonwriter]

> 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.

How do you have test cases without first solving a number of problems in the space without the program you are writing?

[contingencies]

The teacher and the book would explain the case, and the teacher would take us through a few on the board.