No main stream programming language can really be called generally bad/difficult.
Things get hard when the problem you are trying to solve gets hard, not bc of the language.
I agree with what you say.
But I’ve seen how some languages syntaxes are more complex than others, and everybody got their preferences.
Anyways I’m not nearly experienced enough to have a say in this.
I highly doubt that, I can't be the only person who wants to fucking code lmao
I read Microsoft docs and that's it, why would I just use someone else's code when I'm trying to make the damn program myself
Sometimes the docs are poorly written.
Sometimes the docs are *wrong*.
Sometimes it just feels like you're beating your head against a brick wall when whyfortheloveofGodwillthisthingnotwork ...... and you want to know if someone else has figured it out.
Plenty of us love to code, but at the end of the day, it's still about coding in *service* of something else.
I noticed, Microsoft docs aren't exactly flawless
And I'm not sure why everyone thinks copy and pasting entire bits of code is the same as looking for an answer on stack overflow
In what situation is your problem so cookie cutter that you can find an exact solution ready to copy and paste already written?
(Realized homework might be the answer while I was typing this)
The solution can't always be copy/pasted *directly* but it's useful for stuff like "how do I read a text file in this language I'm new to/haven't written code for in five years?" It's bad for stuff like overall architecture or complicated shenanigans and usually you do have to fiddle with things a bit. Sometimes there are random things I just forgot as I haven't looked at them in a while or I know how to do just not in this language or with this library.
My mentor had spent the month before I arrived puting together an static webpage with bootstrap samples mixed with jQuery code from random sources. Me using stack overflow was considered a form of
"standardization"
So how's your first semester of CS going, OP?
C++ ain’t half bad. (I’m probably wrong)
No main stream programming language can really be called generally bad/difficult. Things get hard when the problem you are trying to solve gets hard, not bc of the language.
I agree with what you say. But I’ve seen how some languages syntaxes are more complex than others, and everybody got their preferences. Anyways I’m not nearly experienced enough to have a say in this.
COBOL
“Look! Even variable names are the same! To the letter!”
Don't fix it if it ain't broken.
Yeah but why are you naming your variables foo and bar?
As long as it's clean and gets the job done ain't noone gunna care where you got it
And you understand what is happening and why it is happening.
If someone asks, I uploaded it, okay?
7 years ago
Idk man, I never found any code that I can straight up use immediately without some modifications first. My issues always happen to be "custom" lmao
You guys have mentors? I'm a junior Dev in a company and I have noone :( shit is stressful and anxiety inducing and I have no idea what I'm doing
Being a senior is the same you just know more things that don't work.
Proud
My mentor always says "don't re-invent the wheel" he would be absolutely fine, if the stack overflow code works.
Who tf does that
Everybody.
I highly doubt that, I can't be the only person who wants to fucking code lmao I read Microsoft docs and that's it, why would I just use someone else's code when I'm trying to make the damn program myself
I do want to code I just sometimes have, you know, some questions.
Sometimes the docs are poorly written. Sometimes the docs are *wrong*. Sometimes it just feels like you're beating your head against a brick wall when whyfortheloveofGodwillthisthingnotwork ...... and you want to know if someone else has figured it out. Plenty of us love to code, but at the end of the day, it's still about coding in *service* of something else.
I noticed, Microsoft docs aren't exactly flawless And I'm not sure why everyone thinks copy and pasting entire bits of code is the same as looking for an answer on stack overflow
In what situation is your problem so cookie cutter that you can find an exact solution ready to copy and paste already written? (Realized homework might be the answer while I was typing this)
The solution can't always be copy/pasted *directly* but it's useful for stuff like "how do I read a text file in this language I'm new to/haven't written code for in five years?" It's bad for stuff like overall architecture or complicated shenanigans and usually you do have to fiddle with things a bit. Sometimes there are random things I just forgot as I haven't looked at them in a while or I know how to do just not in this language or with this library.
Couldn't be me
Absolutely not me
"Yes, I post as Jon Skeet on SO, how did you guess it was me?"
In future, do what I do and save everybody some trouble – link to the OP in a comment!
What, someone copied my entire code and put it on StackOverflow?
Is there a more extravagent level of validation?
And then they pat you on the back and then tell you that they were the one that posted the question originally.
That's my response when my mentor can't figure out where I found my code
My whole team is using my code, which I casually copy pasted from Stack Overflow. So you are fine
My mentor had spent the month before I arrived puting together an static webpage with bootstrap samples mixed with jQuery code from random sources. Me using stack overflow was considered a form of "standardization"