Comment Both are helpful... (Score 1) 274
Speaking as someone that teaches second semester CS to 300 undergrads a semester, there is value in both.
Advantage Paper: The computer is a crutch. If you know it, you can write it. You are going to to have to do this in coding interviews. Requires no infrastructure to give an exam without cheating. (I actually don't have the space/computers to give a computer exam to hundreds of students at a time.)
Advantage Computer: I/TAs don't have to grade it, I can just use gradescope.com and students won't argue with me for partial credit.