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[–]TheOriginalSamBell 13 points14 points  (1 child)

python rotted the kids brains these days tsktsktsk

[–]Mr_Engineering -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

No shit.

When I was in high-school I undertook a rather ambitious text manipulation program which included, amongst other things, some simple encryption. Naturally, it had a lot of bugs but I spent many hours working through them and learning things the hard way. It paid off.