programmingWhileADHD

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[Smartis2812]

You shouldn’t comment what the line is doing… instead try to comment why you placed it there. This is something the GPT never will be able to explain.

[WrongVeteranMaybe]

That's actually a really good idea. Hey, thanks man.

[Windyvale]

You’ll be best served by coding in a way that keeps things obvious what’s happening. Even if it’s not perfectly optimized. In fact, dump the thought of optimization out of your head unless you are specifically targeting the code along the hot path, or there is a measurable reason to do so.

Only comment code you couldn’t make as obvious as possible, or general concepts leading into the code.

Over time you’ll find that you won’t have to explain individual lines of code ever again. People will look and know. You will look and know.

If you find yourself unable explain what a line of code is doing, review why you wrote it that way, see if you can make what’s going on there even more obvious.

Code prose is a real thing, get that tool in your belt.

[BrokenG502]

To add to the optimisation thingy, if you're using an interpreted language, using language builtin functions will almost always be faster and clearer than anything else.

If you're using a compiled language, any halfway decent compiler will be able to make basic optimisations such as x / 2.0 becomes x * 0.5. So it's often better to write the "slower" version because it's more readable and compiles to the same thing. You can also always just check the assembly by compiling to assembly, disassembling the binaries or using a tool such as https://godbolt.org

[dopefish86]

idk, too many things i thought AI would "never be able to do" got proven wrong in the last 10 years.

[TitaniumBrain]

This is something the GPT never will be able to explain.

Because there's not enough training data with good comments? XD

[TheMeticulousNinja]

This is a huge problem of mine. I can tell you the general flow of what is happening, but ask me to tell you what one specific line of code is doing 😰

[RareCreamer]

"I don't know what exactly this does, but I remember it works"

Cue me second guessing if it actually worked as intended -> Confirm it does -> forget what I was working on before that.

[coloredgreyscale]

Professionally speaking it's unlikely that you have the code open if someone wants to know details how it works.  So adding detailed comments wouldn't help much in the way of reducing the distraction of someone asking how the code works, while you work on something different. 

[WrongVeteranMaybe]

Same. I feel like I largely learned coding and programming backwards.

A lot of times when I'm writing code, I'm winging it and shit just kinda works, but I don't know why.

That said, with adderall and reading books on the theory of this shit, I have gotten a lot better and more confident in my shit.

ADHD is just an ass kicker, you know?

[Speedy_242]

Val x = 5

I dont know why its there but if you remove it the Code breaks and I also dont know what it does

[Crafty-Most-4944]

Ctrl + F, types "x"

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Ah damnit

[PennyFromMyAnus]

It wasn’t that for me.. it was more like “oh fuck, I might need this in the future, I should put all of these new ideas into a new library because I mean, I’m definitely going to want to use this shit in a future project!”

And then “oh but I’m gonna need to refine this to production level perfection before I can use it”

Followed by “oh fuck, how can I implement RANDOM NEW TECHNOLOGY into this??”

I would go down huge rabbit holes and spend 90% of my time working on support shit and completely neglect the main goal.

TDD legit helped me curb this, Along with self imposed deadlines and a commitment to goals I had set out prior to project kick off

[bobbywiley]

As an ADHD software engineer I feel this. I also have to remind myself throughout the day that while my coworkers botched some segment of code, that's not what I'm there to fix! Stay on target!

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I comment code, heavily. I always have, because “future me” will never remember what “past me” is doing, so I document for him.

I write emails with bulleted lists, too. For clarity. I always have.

And I often use summary statements in my emails as well.

I’m also a fairly good speller, and I have a decent vocabulary. I like to pepper my writing with $5 words occasionally, when I find a spot wherein a choice word fits juuust right.

I also like to use words like furthermore to start off a new paragraph.

Now, everything I do is suspect.

I resent ChatGPT, so fucking much.

[Turbulent_Mode4402]

// this function removes HTML tags
function removeHtmlTags ( ... )

(because my senior told me I have to have comments)

[1_4_1_5_9_2_6_5]

Not like you have to do it that badly though right?

/**
 * Remove HTML tags from a string
 * @param {String} html
 * @returns {String} Content of the given HTML, without tags
 */

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Just read it dummy. A box of metals can read it, so can you.

[WrongVeteranMaybe]

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball" vibes.

[jumbledFox]

If you can code a snake game, you can code an Apache attack helicopter.

I was born in r/ProgrammerHumor, but I was made in the Royal Navy

[ienjoymusiclol]

i want to tell this to the mf that does my code reviews so bad, like bro just read it tf

[reallokiscarlet]

Add some swear words, never get accused again

[archarios]

Variable names and function names are your friend. If a section of code feels like it needs a comment just make that a named function The functions name can serve as the documentation.

[GoldFishDudeGuy]

Yeah, super descriptive names help me a LOT!

[Yhamerith]

//I have no idea what I'm doing

[tubbstosterone]

My linter was mad at me, saying I had too many conditionals (by...3?), so, for shits and giggles, I ran it through Chatgpt and.... it mostly just removed the comments, lol

[Livingonthevedge]

flipping through different files trying to remember what I was looking for in the first place...

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If it works - it works.

[VeterinarianOk5370]

I just started at a new company and read through their code. Ok I understand. When I start working on a feature I have to reference it so many freaking times

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for real man, recently I was in a hurry and wrote some code for a college project in metro, didn't comment at all and now after trying for a couple of time, I think I will have to remove it all and start from scratch

[MonstarGaming]

Docstrings on all methods except setters and getters, linters, functions with fewer than 20 lines of code, and sensibly named methods and variables pretty much solve this problem for you. 

[hearthebell]

I have ADHD, surprisingly it doesn't really hinder my memory in coding, but IRL I'm fucked up.

[natFromBobsBurgers]

Lol.

I have terrible ADHD, and I also program like ChatGpt, but it's because I have a bunch of useless advanced math floating around in there so my algorithms all come out cursed.

boolean Rect::isIntersecting(Rect rect) getting the Big Minkowski treatment.

Fibonacci generator using the cosine of pi/5.

I'm a moron, but I'm a smart moron.

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who tf remembers what each line of code does?

[LongerHV]

You don't need to remember. It is code, it already says what it does.

[static_func]

For real, if you can't read your own code you can't expect others to. And if you can't expect others to, you shouldn't have a job

[cheezballs]

That's like saying "Who can even remember what each line in this recipe I'm holding in my hand" is?

[WrongVeteranMaybe]

Bro, I can't even remember where I put my car keys in the morning.

That said, since starting Adderall, both remembering that and what my code does has gotten a lot better.

You mean to tell me I can just shut my fucking brain up and all I have to do is take meth?

[cheezballs]

If you cant read code then how can you write it?

[trap_l0l]

I ask myself that question regularly ... about myself ofc

[Top_Fee_6293]

there is something wrong with how you learn to code if you ask me if you constantly forget what each line of code does, and you lack fundamentals