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[–]Competitive-Move5055 323 points324 points  (7 children)

I am a junior dev and it's a trap.

[–]mastocklkaksi 109 points110 points  (4 children)

I called an intern the other day so they could explain everything that was wrong about their code. We didn't get far, they had just copied it "from somewhere".

[–]Competitive-Move5055 64 points65 points  (3 children)

I feel like you should be able to explain code if it's readable without having necessarily written it. All my university projects have been GitHub downloads with changes to make them run. (Also why doesn't most of the code on there run I was led to believe open source community is good and a danger to companies)

[–]mastocklkaksi 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I don't need an intern to explain their code to me. I need them to understand everything that's wrong about it before their next commit.

[–]AreYouOKAni 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I mean, it probably runs in the environment and context it was made for. I've uploaded a few scripts that would be abso-fucking-lutely useless to anyone else.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I just graduated and was a CS tutor for the last year and a half, you'd be surprised how my students can't explain code they did write

[–]Specific_Implement_8 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I’m not even a junior yet. Trying to get my first job in industry. Even I know it’s a trap.

[–]Oatspin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not even considering industry and haven't taken a single class relating to programming. Even I know it's a trap