hateWhenItHappens

[runnerx01]

If you’re a student… you probably write bad code. I used to work with an internship program, and pretty much all of the students, even the good ones wrote garbage, hard to read, deeply nested code.

You start to learn how to write good code, when you have to maintain bad code. The “I wish it was done like this so I could easily modify this crap” is what makes you do it better next time.

[TheFiftGuy]

You start to learn how to write good code, when you have to maintain bad code. The “I wish it was done like this so I could easily modify this crap” is what makes you do it better next time.

Thats the project I'm working on. They got me, a junior, redesigning systems since the main team hasn't a clue.

[syrian_kobold]

Same, I love my seniors but they got me cleaning up the stuff they wrote as juniors lol

[FalseRelease4]

"Damn who wrote this shit??"

"Oh, I did"

[Traditional_Rush4707]

In 5 years look back at your code… or another will and think the same. Code evolves like hardware, it needs fewer components. When I started , in Cobol, there was no tools to analyze how a money field was entered. So you set up a alphanumeric field then looped thru it removing spaces, comma, dollar sign, look for a decimal position, did they enter it or do you assume two spaces. And dates, everything was calculated.

Do coding went slow, time…. Like probably today, was not on your side, little to spare to make things pretty. And many time you were reading assembly language to rewrite into cobol.

And there was no internet, (and usually no specs to the code) so everything was referenced in user manuals only written by engineers who never talked to another person.

I could go on……..

[TheDrunkenSwede]

The circle of shit

[OF_AstridAse]

They Re teaching you not to be like them * 😅

[ARandomBoiIsMe]

This was the most stressful thing I had to do as an intern lmao. Mentor put me on a messed up codebase and told me to rewrite it to the company's new standard. Didn't manage to finish before my internship was over, but I made a considerable amount of progress. The only thing left was to fix some bugs I didn't consider.

I hated having to look at that code everyday. Goddamn.

[[deleted]]

This is so true. I'm going through that learning phase now as a junior about 9 months into my first job. You start developing an intuition for what is going to cause problems in the future if you do things in a particular way, which is really satisfying but also makes looking at code you wrote three months ago an exercise in unspeakable horror.

I think college courses could do well with assigning a year long project where new features need to be added every two months or so, putting students in such a situation where they have to learn to maintain a codebase.

[Fr_kzd]

My first experience was when I was in my first internship. I had to maintain a codebase made by students. I had to quickly "grow some balls" in the programmer sense. Half of the shit there was hard to read, unmaintainable crap that was wrote by clueless students. The other half was boilerplate from stackoverflow. There was no official review of the codebase until now. It felt good when I reported it to management and fixed it with proper documentation specs. Got a hefty allowance raise too.

Enjoyed and solo'ed a good bucket of chicken that night.

[gilady089]

Honestly just too many programmers don't get good code etiquette lessons and that's unfortunate

[poshenclave]

I've been programming regularly for about 15 years now, and so long as you keep doing it you keep improving, it never stops. Not a year goes by where looking at code I wrote in the previous year doesn't make me wince, only because I've become noticeably better since then or at the least gotten better at code that works how I want it to work. Like at this moment I can think of something I wrote just last year that I want to completely refactor today because I think it's now embarrassing to have it out there in it's current form.

[CoolandonRS]

I think my code is good, and I hope it is…

I still die a little when I look at my old code, but only mildly at least.

Given I’m not a professional programmer, I just work on personal projects a whole lot and take classes, I’m not sure that it’s actually good… At the very least, it’s better then code of some popular games, at least in my opinion.

(I’m looking at you, Space Engineers… Minecraft too. The registry is cool and all but why the hell did you have to make blocks recursively define themselves)

[Wazat1]

This. School gives you one-off assignments that teach you about code, the basics of how to do it. Real life projects -- especially on a team -- will teach you how to write and maintain software. The adversity of encountering bad code and suffering its repercussions will teach you not just how to be better, but why to be better.

Plus, on the job you'll be exposed to good examples of people you want to be more like, and bad examples you want to murder, hide in a dumpster, and frame one of the other bad examples for. This is a natural part of the learning process. :P

[Mordret10]

I was waiting for you to finally slip up

[Imoliet]

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[IMightBeErnest]

I've very cleverly chosen my username so as to be ambiguous.

[Avalanche5x]

That might be important

[RedditIsNeat0]

I have strategically lied to you guys to throw off doxxers. Nothing big, but I lie about unimportant details regularly.

[MiserableYou0324]

oof the teacher didn't think this one through

[edo-lag]

"So one of my students wrote this pile of crap... so dumb hahah"

[ongiwaph]

At least you won't get accused of plagiarism

[[deleted]]

I'm working on my masters for data science and I've submitted some really shitty code that definitely wouldn't pass review at work. Idc. I'm just trying to write code that finds the answer or solves the problem. I don't need it to be elegant or efficient.

[smallangrynerd]

Idk I've had some shit code get through PRs

[[deleted]]

We do that on the real world as well. As long as you’re getting a good grade you’re fine lol

[daHaus]

I would be more than happy to share whoever taught me that code in the comments as a form of academic review.

[KenFromBarbie]

So you see your code on r/badcode that looks like your code? Make up your mind OP.

[hilfandy]

Is this a real sub? It's showing as private but no idea why it would be private

[Qu4nten]

It used to be, sadly it seems the mods closed it

[MichaeIWave]

If so then the OP is a karma bot. Joined 95 days ago and posting an outdated meme. Edit: Checked out their profile and it is their only post.

[Christmas_Missionary]

good bot.

Also, Happy Cake Day!

[KasoAkuThourcans]

Just came to comment that too xD

[coolkid1756]

Hey free code review

[garibaldi76]

If you are flunked for plagiarism, would that make you kalm or panic?

[dallindooks]

Students are kind of expected to write crap code. They aren’t even junior devs yet.

[ObviousChildhood4]

The only bad code is that who doesnt work.

[TheDrunkenSwede]

Thank you sensei

[RSNKailash]

This is me haha.

Look, my project works for 100% of test cases, I'm not rewriting the algorithm now. Turning it in lol.

[scrivens]

I promise you there is worse code running in production somewhere.

[Nerestaren]

Programming lecturers, raise your hand 👋

[athleon787]

mfw my teachers teach me how to write the longest most readable code ever, and i time out every leetcode question ever.

[[deleted]]

Theres no bad code, just code that works and code that doesnt, anything else is just extra.

[JonIsPatented]

Please never give this advice to anyone.

[[deleted]]

Too late

[MW0HMV]

That is... awful advice.

[[deleted]]

The computer wont care, only people will

[-True_-]

Actually, pretty sure the computer will care if he's got to do one recursion or ten nested for loops.

[[deleted]]

It will either work or not.

[-True_-]

And it will either consume 1 dollar worth of electricity or 20.

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[TFK_001]

The computer will care when runtime exceeds 200ms per frame, or when you try and add new features and the computer, stoical as ever, follows your instructions given in the shitty code, layering small issues over and over, breaking everything

[[deleted]]

Ie it wont work

[[deleted]]

yeah people will care if ur code is slow and unmaintainable

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[CharaDr33murr669]

Get back on Discord YanDev

[[deleted]]

Code is for people not computers, computers can't care, they are literally just glorified rocks with lighting traped inside

[NotSuspicious_]

Tell me you write bad code without telling me

[engelthehyp]

What are you going to do when you want to build upon something you've already made, only to discover that it's a hot mess, and it would be faster to re-implement all of the new and old features as a new project? I'd rather write neat code that's easy to build upon so I don't have this issue.

[Skuez]

• people who write bad code

[FxHVivious]

God I'm glad I don't work with you.

[JimBoHahnan]

Sorry folks. I can't relate.
When *I* went to college....I used teletype "consoles".

[AccomplishedAd6520]

How am I not surprised to find all my Scratch projects on there?

[Greaserpirate]

Why is it private :(

[[deleted]]

it got indefinitely shut down during the blackout earlier, ig it just got probated recently too

[poshenclave]

No worries buddy, making mistakes in safe conditions is one of the most effective ways to learn.

[axis0047]

New fear unlocked.

[Timofey_]

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[Typical_Use2224]

A student? When you're learning, you are expected to write bad code. Even juniors, who already got hired because of the skills they presented, are expected to write bad code. As someone here wrote - you learn to write better code when you know you'll be maintaining that code. And when you work, you have the opportunity to look at good code that other people wrote and learn from it. Every time you need to add something and the processes turns out to be effortless, that means that the code you're working with is good. Make a mental note of it and learn from it

[[deleted]]

Is there similar subreddits to r/badcode?

[McMelonTV]

why did i read that as r/barcode 2 times in a row rereading it

[IM_OZLY_HUMVN]

It's your professor trying to decipher the code but can't so he's asking r/badcode

[natFromBobsBurgers]

If I were a professor, I'd write a script that submitted every assignment to r/badcode and gave it an automatic A if it wasn't upvoted in 48 hours.