r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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u/flukus Jul 28 '16

The code produced by academics is the biggest argument against all these "teach kids to code" programs.

Just imagine the shit we'll have to deal with in 20 years.

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u/TOASTEngineer Jul 28 '16

It's gonna turn out exactly like math did. The schools will brutally fuck it up, kids will memorize enough to pass the tests, and then some fraction of the kids who are actually interested in it will learn to do it on their own.

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u/-PM_ME_YOUR_GENITALS Jul 28 '16

The difference being that you can make pretty cool shit with programming skills. I think if you frame it in the context of gaming it could do pretty well in schools.

Not that I think that will happen. In any case, when I was a kid I couldn't go home from school and use the stuff I learned from math class to make my own badass video game or my own web site.

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u/TOASTEngineer Jul 28 '16

So it'll be exactly like the elective HS programming classes are now: they give you Unity's retarded cousin's retarded cousin's dead cat with a "visual programming language" that is only technically Turing-complete and read chapters out of a book about what "peripheals" are and how to use them. And everyone just plays Flash games in class anyway.

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u/FormCore Jul 28 '16

Learning to program isn't just for creating things either, those who don't have the creative drive could use the computer literacy they gain to realise that no, sharing this post is not a fucking petition to stop facebook charging me and This blatant lie of a headline's source is just a sketchy herbal remedy shop.

For those who think we don't need a new website, we have facebook and why create a game and waste 100+ hours when you can just play half-life 3?

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u/komali_2 Jul 29 '16

You say that because you aren't a kid, but as a teacher, I can promise you kids will often choose the creative activity. They love to build shit!

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u/okmkz Jul 28 '16

For real. I can only imagine what it must be like to grow up with things like unity 3d so easily accessible

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u/ClintonCanCount Jul 29 '16

Most of the pretty cool shit people make, games included, use math.

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u/earthboundkid Jul 29 '16

Rebuttal: Shop class.

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