Few people remember all the syntax and the range of instructions in any language, even if they code in it year-in and year-out. Everyone codes with books, manuals and the internet handy. You shouldn't go out of your way to learn the exact syntax for any particular instruction; through repetition you'll come to know them as a matter of course. Thinking about the problem and figuring the best way to code it will take most of the time in writing a program. Because no-one can remember syntax, most computer exams are open book: instructors know that it takes longer to look up an answer in a book than to retreive it directly from memory. A book isn't much help in a computer exam anyhow, but it will save you when you can't remember syntax.

You do have to know what sort of instructions might be available in any programming language, so you can say "Now how do you test if (x=0)?".

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