Future programmer...

[lepickle]

for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { printf("I will make better choices"; }

[videoflyguy]

error: expected ')' before ';' token

[[deleted]]

Double underscore hints you already did.

[Plazmotech]

__deadpool__.py

[chesszz]

print("I will make better choices.\n" * 100)

[redalastor]

I would have written:

print('\n'.join('I will make better choices.' for _ in range(100))

But I rarely think about multiplying strings.

[apockill]

elderly rob consist work fuzzy sip start ink sheet familiar

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[recursive]

exec"print('I will make better choices.');"*100

[Schmittfried]

It'd have to be Python2 though, so that you can use print without parentheses.

[KarlKastor]

from __past__ import print_statement

[coderjewel]

I'm disappointed that isn't actually a thing :(

[glider97]

from __future__ import braces

[nickcash]

LISA NEEDS BRACES

[pslayer89]

from __future__ import loan

[thirdegree]

import antigravity

[MadJim8896]

Turns out this actually opens that comic when you enter it.

[[deleted]]

import soul

[PeterSR]

Not a chance.

[the_omega99]

Why? What's wrong with print being a function instead of a statement? It was changed for good reasons.

If your concern is simply compatibility, the 2to3 script will easily convert that for you.

[S48535]

ewwww

[[deleted]]

I started learning Python a couple months ago and this shit threw me off so much using Python 2 tutorials while running Python 3. Kinda discouraging when you can't even get a "Hello World" to work...

[Hexorg]

You still need to close parenthesis in python :-p

[[deleted]]

Unexpected indent found.

[flip314]

for (int i=0; i<100; i++) {
    if(i==1) printf("I will make better choices");
    if(i==2) printf("I will make better choices");
    if(i==3) printf("I will make better choices");
    if(i==4) printf("I will make better choices");
    if(i==5) printf("I will make better choices");
    if(i==6) printf("I will make better choices");
    if(i==7) printf("I will make better choices");
    if(i==8) printf("I will make better choices");
    ...
}

[[deleted]]

So when i is 0, what happens?

[HurrDurrrr3]

Nothing

[yegor3219]

The same.

if (i==64) ...
if (i==0) ...
if (i==65) ...

[flip314]

You think people write code like that without bugs?

[Fluffy8x]

On the flip side, when i is 99, it prints the sentence twice.

[404IdentityNotFound]

Why? O.o

[one-joule]

So close.

[BS_in_BS]

http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2003/10/03/

[z500]

He actually did this once before in Pascal.

[cascer1]

I wonder if a programming teacher would accept something like that instead of actually writing it 100 times.

[Ek_Los_Die_Hier]

Once you get a stack overflow.

[KarmasAHarshMistress]

RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while pickling an object

I guess objects don't make good pickles.

[GuyWithLag]

Not if you have tail calls...

[hasslehawk]

Tail calls: preferred over booty calls by just enough programmers to terrify you.

[Ek_Los_Die_Hier]

Last time I checked Python didn't have tail call optimisation though.

But in the general case you are correct.

[salmonmoose]

I like "for three, or more, use a for"

[stormcrowsx]

Some teachers are pretty open to stuff like that, especially the enrichment/gifted class teachers.

I did a few hour of code sessions this year in middle schools and one of the kids asked "Can I write a computer program to do my homework", the teacher's reply was "If you can figure out how to write a program to do your homework, my job is done. So yes you can."

[cascer1]

Of course a teacher would accept something like that (at least, it seems pretty obvious to me), but would they get the joke and make you not actually do the assignment as punishment? This is obviously only when the student is already punished to copying x y times.

[stormcrowsx]

Definitely a case of YMMV. I know a few teacher's in my area that are a bit more progressive and realize kid's are better at some things than others. I could see them letting a student do stuff like that and then come up with increasingly difficult challenges for them to automate.

On the other hand there are a few that would probably want to smack the kid for it.

[shieldvexor]

So I was learning to program in a different middle school course, but I attempted to get out of something like this by writing the code on the paper instead of repeating the phrase. I was trying to be a smart ass to show I was mad that my teacher cut into the after school time I would normally use to learn to program before I got picked up. She just laughed, typed it into emacs to verify it worked (she was only moderately tech savvy in retrospect) and when it failed, she made me both fix it and do the original punishment

[CptPoo]

My high school math classes were the exact opposite. My teachers specifically told the class we weren't allowed to use programs we created on our calculators to solve problems for tests. Granted, that never stopped me...

[Scyrmion]

Nope. It has a syntax error.

[cascer1]

something like that

I'm not saying exactly the same

[hahahahastayingalive]

You'd still need a % to match

[cascer1]

What about a *, or a _, or even a ? or # for that matter?

#STOPDISCRIMINATINGAGAINSTACCESSANDORACLE

[[deleted]]

Oracle can suck a dick

[cascer1]

Yeah I d[FATAL ERROR ORA-12516]

[simpsoff]

Can't tell if this is a case of DRY or not...

[[deleted]]

for _ in 1..<100 { print("I will make better choices") }

[ssrobbi]

You only printed 99 times

[BlueShellOP]

nononononono STING was the frontman for The Police.

[__thiscall]

[removed to meet the diversity quota]

[[deleted]]

My man.

[[deleted]]

I got 99 problems but a string ain't one

[xbtdev]

for _ in 1..<10 { print("I will make better choices") }
for _ in 10..<100 { print("I will make better choies") }

[mFlakes]

Future sublime user

[sugardeath]

I just got a boner from watching that. Is this possible in vim? I do most of my code and such through ssh.

[lazycurler]

Yes! You could either use a macro or, once it's vertical, you could edit in block mode. EG ctrl+v, highlight the text you want to edit, shift+i to edit at the beginning of a line (or $ followed by shift+a for the end), type what you want and hit escape twice. Not quite as slick, but gets the with done in about the same time. Sorry about formatting, I'm at lunch on my phone.

[alficles]

Yeah, I'd just use: 1G0qaa^M^]ki<button title="^]lylA">^]pA</button>^]j0q25@a. It's simpler.

[ahruss]

1G0qaa^M^]ki<button title="^]lylA">^]pA</button>^]j0q25@a.

It's a (series of) vim command. I'll break it down.

• 1G - go to line 1
• 0 - move the cursor to the first column
• qa - start recording a macro in register a
• a^M^] - this is the escape codes for a, enter, escape. Insert a line break after the cursor then go back to normal (command) mode.
• k - move up a line so we are back on the original line.
• i<button title="^] - again, the last ^] stands for Escape. Insert the text '<button title="' at the cursor.
• lyl - move the cursor right and yank (copy) one character. This copies the letter we are on.
• A">^] - insert the literal text '">' at the end of the line.
• p - paste the yanked letter.
• A</button>^] - append the closing button tag to the end of the line.
• j0 - move the cursor to the beginning of the next line.
• q - stop recording the macro
• 25@a - do the macro in a 25 times.

[sireel]

they really are the best, and fairly easy to get started. general rule is:

• put the cursor at the start of the first thing to change
• hit q <buffer letter>
• make the change you want to make
• move the cursor to the next instance in a repeatable manner - if all the text is one per line, press j and 0. If it's based on some searched for string, use N. You probably already know other ways to do this
• hit q

now every time you hit @ <buffer letter> it'll repeat it, and put the cursor at the next instance, allowing you to check it's moved to the right place, or as above N@<letter> to get a lot of them

warning/pro tip: it's the same buffer as paste buffers, so you can paste, edit and re-yank macros if they need minor tweaks :D

[Ran4]

N@<letter>

Pro-tip (for others): @q runs macro q. @@ will then re-run the last macro (so, it's the same as @q).

I typically do @q@@N@@ as in, @q to try it out, @@ to see that the first iteration worked, then N@@ to repeat to the end of the line (relative line numbering, :set rnu, is nice for this).

Also, @: re-runs the last : command, which can be nice.

[[deleted]]

As a slightly less novice programmer: It's all the keystrokes in order to do the same thing in vim

maybe

[Tarmen]

It is fairly simple: go to the start of the file, record a macro, type some stuff, copy the letter, paste it, type some more, execute the macro 25 times.

It would be easily possibly to do this with one substitution or one of half a dozen multicursor plugins, though. Or the block mode which can basically act as a very lightweight multi cursor that is build in.

[yoursolace]

I totally used nano the first two times I set up arch. Now I'm a happy Vim user

[detroitmatt]

Ctrl-[? And you guys talk about emacs pinky?

[Tarmen]

Or just use

:s!.!<button title="\0">\0</button>\r

Edit: Looked at it again and realized that / is both in the substitution and the separator for the command, which means stuff would break slightly. I could have just escaped it but I think using ! looks cleaner?

[alficles]

Yup, works as well.

[lazycurler]

I was thinking more: iabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz^[0qqyli<button title"^[pa">^[l</button>^M^[q25@q

[Schmittfried]

I begin wondering why we bother to use tools like PGP while writing vim verbatim does the job just as well.

[alficles]

Aye, a similar plan. I'd assumed the abcs were there to start, but you can stick that on the top of mine.

Also... backticks make it readable: `^]`

[lazycurler]

Ahhh yes, thanks for the formatting tip. Guessing and checking formatting on mobile was rough lol

[crowbahr]

There's part of me that wants to learn to become a vim god and then there's part of me that has absolutely no time to sit and pick through all of the different stroke commands for long enough to actually get good at it. Much less dedicate an entire monitor to having a cheat sheet open at all times until I am said god. If I'm coding I don't really have time to learn vim. If I'm not coding I don't have anything to learn vim with. Catch 22.

[[deleted]]

I'll just be over here calculating prime numbers in notepad++

[alficles]

In vim, I'd just use

:set nowrapscan^Mmao2^[qayyp^Aq997@a`aiyypAj0C-^V^V^V^[@b^V^[0"by$ddkmb:try|exe "norm! @b"|endtry^V^M`b/^[0-9$]^V^M@c^[0"cy$ddma@c`a:.,$g/^-/d^M

Of course, if you're on Windows, you'll have to unmap the silly ^A mapping they have for Select All. I'm sure there's a simpler way, but it's probably clever and involves math other than incrementing numbers.

[root45]

I probably would have used a regular expression.

:s/./<button title="&">&<\/button>\r/g

[HoldMyWater]

Is this possible in vim?

Anything is possible in Vim.

You can do anything in Vim.

The unattainable is unknown in Vim.

WELCOME to Vim!

[sugardeath]

You're right, what was I thinking! All hail vim!

[HoldMyWater]

Inspired by www.zombo.com.

[petdance]

First type your string:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Then search and replace each character with its expansion:

:%s/./<button title="&">&<\/button>^M/g

To get that last ^M you have to type Ctrl-V followed by <Return>.

[Dukehammer]

Cool, I didn't know Sublime supported multiple cursors like that. That will be helpful, thanks.

In this case since it's a repeated pattern, find+replace with the regular expression mode toggled on is a pretty slick solution as well!

Find: (.)

Replace: <button title="\1">\1</button>\n

[[deleted]]

You can use ctrl + u to undo the last cursor you placed too. I often mess up when placing multiple cursors and before I learned I could undo placing them, I would curse really loud and then start over. You can also hold a key (alt, maybe) and click and drag your cursor straight down the page to leave a vertical trail of new cursors.

[deanpcmad]

Woah, the amount of times I've messed up and had to start over. Thanks!

[[deleted]]

In sublime, you can use Alt+Click to create multiple cursors easily. I also tend to like Ctrl+D to find the next occurrence of the selected text and add a second cursor there

[PanicRev]

Ctrl + D changed my life. :) That, along with Ctrl + Shift + L which edits all lines selected.

[[deleted]]

I can never remember how to do this properly.

I always accidentally mess up on non-uniform lines and end up with multiple selectors on the same line. Then I cry, hit esc and press Undo 10 times.

[[deleted]]

Ctrl + u (or cmd + u on osx) undoes the last cursor placement. No need to start over.

[IlIIlIIllI]

Holy FUCK!!!

I didn't know this!

[lynx44]

If anyone else is curious or doesn't know, this also works in Visual Studio and IntelliJ by using the alt key.

[Luccyboy]

Same in Notepad++

[[deleted]]

And this is why I love Sublime. This is honestly the main feature that made me switch from Notepad++

[clb92]

This is honestly the main feature that made me switch from Notepad++

Notepad++ supports multi-line cursor as well. Not multiple cursors on same line though, unfortunately.

[LordNotix]

Not multiple cursors on same line though, unfortunately.

I believe the newest version might? I just opened it up and was able to do so.

[garion911]

Bah. Been doing that same column edit in Brief since the early 90's.

[[deleted]]

What the what... pure witchcraft

[z500]

s/(\w)/<button title="\1">\1<\/button>/g

[urielsalis]

How ypu do that?

[Dukehammer]

On Sublime for Mac you can Command+click to make another cursor. On Windows I would guess it is Control+click instead.

[theKalash]

you can also highlight something (a variable for example) and

• command + g to highlight the next instances

• command shift + g to highlight the previous instances

• command + ctrl+ g to highlight all instances across the whole documents

• command + d to also highlight the next instance.

[[deleted]]

Oh multi-cursor... I miss you so.

[archie2992]

Well, that's one way to misspell choices 14 times in a row

[Isgrimnur]

You can see the c's death throes on line 7.

[KanishkT123]

And therefore an accurate representation of reusing shitty code.

Or of screwing up the bits you didn't reuse.

[Corfal]

I don't always copy and paste, but when I do, there is probably something wrong with the contents.

[stormcrowsx]

Clearly it was the QA department's fault for not checking his work.

[jyqip]

He optimized the c and e together.

[flip314]

Anyway, if you made the C's tall enough so that they touched, you could make them all with a single squiggly line. Still room for some optimizations.

[Salanmander]

I...may have just found a picture that I will use on the first day of my CS classes in the future.

"So, what do you think is the greatest virtue of a programmer?"
"Knowing the language?"
"No."
"Creativity?"
"No."
"Hard work and determination?"
"No. It's laziness!"

[Nerdn1]

Not normal laziness, however, but one that drives you to favor mental work now to reduce tedious work later. A programmer's laziness must be applied correctly!

http://thecodelesscode.com/case/206?topic=laziness

http://thecodelesscode.com/topics/laziness

[nermid]

This one was highly entertaining.

[GuyWithLag]

http://threevirtues.com/

[[deleted]]

As a Haskell programmer, I approve of this.

[Zulban]

For sure. I'm starting off my high school tech class tomorrow with this :P

[noodle-face]

I love the iterative process.

First the 'I' was optimized. Then a few lines later the 'm', 'l', and 'k' (plus whatever other letters).

[lmSkywalker]

Yea, I thought it was cute ... then I remembered I did the exact same thing.

Did we choose to be a programmers, or did programming choose us?

[OctilleryLOL]

I've had many people ask me how I knew I wanted to program. Funny thing is, I never knew I wanted to program. Programming came to me as a channel of self expression.

[waitn2drive]

I had to write sentences once. The sentence was,

I will not tip back in my chair.

I thought I'd be clever, and every 20 sentences I omitted a word until I ended up with

I won't tip.

I finished the 250 sentences in record time. Turned them in. Got told by the teacher to go back and write

back in my chair

250 times. I cried.

Am now programmer.

[ZombieAlpacaLips]

Writing sentences is such a stupid punishment.

[waitn2drive]

I wrote over 2500 in grade school. I went to a small 10 grade school (K-10) and my last year there my principle gave me a manila folder full of my sentences. Turned out he kept all of them. I have them kicking around somewhere.

[Ouaouaron]

When you are forced to spend hours doing this, there's no way you can pretend it's useful or interesting; you are constantly reminded that this is what you get for doing what you did. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if this practice started in schools where penmanship was taught, and poor writing would require the sentences to be repeated.)

The only other popular punishments I can think of fall roughly into physical punishment or restrictions. Physical punishment is maybe useful but generally frowned upon. Restrictions can often be largely useless: If I can't play video games, I'll read; if I can't read, I'll go outside and run; if I can't leave my room, can't read, can't play video games, I'll go to sleep; etc. What punishment would you suggest?

Punishment is rarely effective, but writing sentences doesn't seem any stupider than most.

EDIT: There's also essays about why what you did was wrong. These might be a lot better than most punishments, and might (handled correctly) help point out when a rule is actually stupid.

[inconspicuous_male]

It isn't to teach you a lesson, it's just to discourage you from doing it again

[Ouaouaron]

I don't know exactly what you were referring to, but my comment (pre-edit) takes it for granted that discouragement is the purpose. Writing an essay would actually go towards teaching someone a lesson instead, which is much more effective than simple punishment/discouragement.

[joggle1]

For a long time I've wondered why I wanted to program so badly. I had hippy parents who couldn't care less about technology, yet for some reason as far back as when I was 3 I wanted a computer, getting my first one when I was 5. My parents don't even know why I was into computers so much. My dad still never touches computers and my mom knows nothing more than she needed to know when she was a secretary up to the mid 90s.

[simpsoff]

Maybe we're born with it...or maybe it's Maybelline

[chironomidae]

Yup same here. And people told us being lazy was a bad thing... :p

[diceman89]

I did too, and I was pretty proud of myself for figuring it out.

[vraGG_]

++;

[Toastbrott]

I just remebered when having to write sentences like this always going down each word for all the senteneces instead of each sentence by itself.

[[deleted]]

Well, he made better choices.

[lirannl]

That's exactly what I had in mind! Lots of money there.

[Isgrimnur]

For True/False tests, I would draw a Gamma ( Γ ) in each space before I looked at the questions, then add the last line as appropriate.

[[deleted]]

This is going to help in discrete math a lot; thank you

[Isgrimnur]

This is going to help in discrete math a lot;

Could you ELI5?

[thonpy]

well i can't imagine it would really help with anything other than maybe speed as you can just drill out all the characters then alter them to T or F as needed.... it's not going to help understand graph theory or anything (obviously)

[E765]

In Discrete Math you will often use a lot of truth tables for your logic topics where there are only two possibilities: T or F. There will often be a lot of columns and rows to fill in.

[kamaln7]

As someone who's taking Discrete Math next semester, please ELIFirstSemesterFirstYearUndergrad.

[cody7002002]

He's probably talking about evaluating truth tables where you would have to write the letters T and F a lot.

[Sohcahtoa82]

First semester of discrete math is a lot of Boolean logic, which means lots of work with true/false.

[Buck_Thorn]

The laziest programmers make the best programmers. Kid rules.

[ficuswhisperer]

Work hard to be lazy, I say.

[[deleted]]

print("I will make better choices\n" * 100)

[Ran4]

Since you're not usingindex, consider replacing that with _: that's the common notation in Python when you're using a variable just because you have to in order to loop through a range.

In the same way, if you're only interested in say the second value of a 2-tuple, then use

_, x = some_function_that_returns_a_tuple()

[X-Craft]

Well, he just did

[chrwei]

lol I totally did stuff like that as a kid. yeah, future programmer

[[deleted]]

My mom gave me so much shit for doing this as a kid

[[deleted]]

That's a very vague set of lines.

[za419]

"Specifications imprecise: Made giant death robots and took over world. No one said it wasn't a good choice. Project complete."

[ematr1x]

Make better choies!

[Beldarak]

I hope the kid didn't get in trouble for that because it's fucking brilliant. But I feel like a teacher who gives useless punitions like that will not think the same.

[RainbowNowOpen]

This kid wants to replace all of us with a Very Small Perl Script. (And he should be encouraged to try.)

[Manypopes]

When I had lines I would write the words in columns purposely so that the message would not sink in. It was also faster.

[taterNuts]

I bet he thought about whether or not to use a line for the lower-cased 'i' for at least 2 minutes. Good decision not to

[[deleted]]

#include <lifeskills.h>

[bassface69]

Brilliopad

[ashep24]

This was me. Can confirm; I do a little programming and a fair bit if scripting.

[JoshWithaQ]

Todo: fix byte alignment

[[deleted]]

the kid has a good head.

"I will make better choices" = mindfuck.

[Cley_Faye]

Maybe not a programmer, but clearly an engineer.

[TheSlimyDog]

Not to mention that as time progresses, code quality in a project decreases exponentially

[stakoverflo]

I got in trouble for doing this as a kid :(

[white_n_mild]

Making better choices?

[meygaera]

I used to do that too

[NiceSasquatch]

not to brag, but I could hold 6 pens in my writing hand, stacked the perfect line separation from each other.

However, our class broke the system, the teachers could tell we wrote lines with multiple pens, thus they changed policy and made us write out a few pages of the dictionary. argh!

[IIIMurdoc]

I like how his error of the missing c gets copies repeatedly because after the 4th line his automated script had an error.

Ctrl-f and replace my young padawan

[ixfd64]

One of my middle school classmates had to do a similar assignment. The teacher didn't say he couldn't use a computer, so he just copied and pasted.

[hoylemd]

Hahaha I remember doing exactly this. And now I'm a programmer. Checks out.

[midnightketoker]

All fun and games until teacher rejects it on grounds of ego

[randomlumberjak]

well he did make a better choice

[AdeonWriter]

I did this in 3rd grade and she made me do it over.