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Aaargh....my eyes......my eyes...... (lemmy.world)

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[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Teaching someone the wrong way to do something frequently makes the right way make way more sense. Someone who just copy/pasted 99 near identical if statements understands on a fundamental level when, why, and where you use a for loop much more than someone who just read in the textbook "a for loop is used to iterate elements in a collection".

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Reminds me of a dude that wrote the equivalent of this in Visualg (a brazilian pseudocode language and program, meant solely for teaching programming)

if
  if
    if
      if
        if (x < 10) then
          print(x)
        else
      else
    else
  else
else

That the thing ran and didn't complain about the amount of loose/needless if's checking fuck all baffles my mind to this day.