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God I wish there was an easier way to do this (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by andioop@programming.dev to c/programming_horror@programming.dev

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Back when I was learning programming a lot of lessons would make you do something like this, and then show you the real way to do it in the next lesson. My reaction was always "why didn't you lead with this?".

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

You must see the pain before you confront it.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Because the point of the lesson is to demonstrate that you can solve the same problem multiple ways where some paths are more efficient than others.

Bad programmers are the ones that find the first solution and implement it no matter how inefficient it is.

Good programmers spend time on figuring out the solution with the least amount broken or inefficient code. You don’t learn this by jumping straight to the best answer every time.