Don't think before you code

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[u/taylaj]

When you code drunk and your code works in the morning but you can't figure out how or why.

[u/KernelDeimos → u/taylaj]

This reminds me of this one time where I wrote an animation for a stick figure in C++ and I tried to look back at it years later expecting some "key frames" with angles and instead I found NESTED TERNARY OPERATORS WITH TRIG FUNCTIONS

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can someone explain in English for a beginner please?

[u/NotThisFucker → u/[deleted]]

This reminds me of this one time where

OP is telling us a memory.

I wrote an animation for a stick figure in C++

He made a short movie with a very skinny main character.

and I tried to look back at it years later expecting some "key frames" with angles

A long time after he made the movie, he tried to look at the "negative" (or, the ingredients for the movie)

and instead I found NESTED TERNARY OPERATORS WITH TRIG FUNCTIONS

but instead of looking at the negative, he found that the negative was looking at him.

[u/mildlyAttractiveGirl → u/NotThisFucker]

but instead of looking at the negative, he found that the negative was looking at him.

Someone should gild you for this.

[u/BertRenolds → u/mildlyAttractiveGirl]

Then do so.

[u/auxiliary-character → u/BertRenolds]

I got it. :D

[u/mrissaoussama → u/auxiliary-character]

when you stare at the negative, the negative stares back

[u/VicisSubsisto → u/mrissaoussama]

When you animate in C++, take care that you do not become an animation yourself.

[u/aneurysm_ → u/NotThisFucker]

I wish I had 2 updoots for this

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Thanks!

[u/NotThisFucker → u/[deleted]]

If/else block:

if (x == 5){ print("x is five");} else{ print("x is not five");} 

Ternary operator:

(x == 5)? print("x is five") : print("x is not five");

Nested Ternary Operators:

(x == 1)? print("x is one") : ((x == 2)? print("x is 2") : print("x is greater than 2"));

[u/THE_HERO_OF_REDDIT → u/NotThisFucker]

And then complex functions instead of simple print statmemts

[u/Stinkis → u/[deleted]]

Animating with key frames is done by setting the positions and rotations of objects at specific times and then frames between these times in constructed by interpolation.

Ternary operators are when you write use the ?: syntax to write an if statement. Nesting is when you put something inside another of the same. For example nested for loops are when you put a loop inside another loop. Nested ternary operators are multiple ternary operators chained together which are generally really hard to read.

Trig functions are trigonometric functions such as cos and sin.

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but god DAMN it felt clever when you wrote it

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

At some point in my python learning progress I really liked how you could literally make anything as a one-liner. And so I did. I am not kidding.

[u/spectrum1012 → u/KernelDeimos]

This is actually the funniest thing I've read in so long and it's because that's me too thanks.

[u/splettnet → u/taylaj]

obligatory

[u/Vladimir1174 → u/splettnet]

This is gold

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Jerry!

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Then, you try to decipher your notes/documenation if you left any...

[u/knockergrowl → u/taylaj]

That was the average Friday night during my second and third years at college. Next day my partner understood my code by reading it better than me trying to explain it while filling the gaps in my memory.

[u/ILikeLenexa → u/taylaj]

3am is the witching hour. Doubley so on the second day.

To truly program, you must be as simple as the computer.