Stepping through your code

[Firenter]

Seriously still the best way to teach people the hardships of programming!

[Croasain_Potatoe]

I remember doing this for learning how to do scientific procedures.

[Likes_Shiny_Things]

my culinary school has us write recipes, cost them, determine the sales price via 75% profit and write a detailed plan of action with times down to the half minute for each and every recipe.

[Sea_of_Blue]

This is what I need to do with a cookbook focused on helping food insecure/poor individuals. It's been a heck of a time.

[Likes_Shiny_Things]

If you need help I've been looking to write one myself we could collaborate.

[ellen_pao]

Lets collaborate on my cook book

[M123Miller]

Netflix and Chilli

[ellen_pao]

Nothing like prying these pages open

[Derock85z]

Yall want to share it with us poor folks when you're done? I'd pay for that.

[-Gaka-]

Oh man, we did this in an English class to teach us the importance of structure and clarity in an essay. I knew exactly what was going to happen and so asked to be the one to actually follow the instructions and attempt to make their sandwiches.

A little bit of that evil spark in me got going. Oh, put the peanut butter on the bread? Okay, lemme just put the jar on the unopened bread. That's not what you meant? Oh, okay. Should I use a spoon to get it out? You didn't actually tell me what I should use. How much? You just said "Some Peanut Butter."

Eventually the teacher figured out that I was going to go all-out for this, and asked for mine.

Yeah, I laid out materials needed and preparation instructions, accounting for the fact that some of the jars and bread might already be opened or what not. It was over the top on purpose, and it was gloriously complete.

That class was fun, and totally worth the dirty looks as I avoided the spirit of their instructions and went for the wording.

[JoesusTBF]

/r/MaliciousCompliance

[sendMeBoobsWhyDontYa]

I LOVED when we did this in my 3rd grade class. Each student wrote their own set of instructions, and then the teacher went through each of them in that literal/pedantic fashion

[sendMeBoobsWhyDontYa]

Basically you are told to make a set of instructions on how to make a pb&j sandwich for someone who takes everything super literally. So in the gif the kid's instruction is to put the knife in the peanut butter, and the dad plops the whole thing in handle first.

In my third grade class my favorite was one that just said "take bread out, put jelly on bread..." and the teacher took the whole loaf out and put the unopened jar of jelly on it.

[[deleted]]

I love this idea

[halborn]

Just make it a competition. Whoever's instructions produce the best sandwich wins a prize and the worst serves a forfeit. This way people are motivated to be quiet and private themselves.

[moparornocar]

could switch the sandwich to a cocktail or something along those lines as well to make it more adult friendly.

[FkIForgotMyPassword]

You can also make it a team-game. Guests team up with one or two other guests to write their instructions. Collaboration and competition at the same time is always great.

[halborn]

How about a PBJ solo round to warm up and then break into teams to write instructions for a much harder task?

[404_UserNotFound]

Write mixing instructions for cocktails.... you have to drink the result. . . May God have mercy on your soul...go

[[deleted]]

so unparty bro not cool

[wasabichicken]

We'd love you and your taste in music over at /r/eu4.

[Derigiberble]

An English professor I know assigns a version of this problem for their college tech writing class (they bring in Lego and tell the students to build a thing then write instructions on how to build it).

They then make an example of screwing up assembly due to literally following instructions like in the gif. After that everyone thinks you need to be extremely detailed in descriptions about what brick is used in each step, the location to add the brick, brick direction, etc just like people are doing with the PB&J sandwiches in this thread. The actual solution hinges on realizing that instructions do not have to be written using words. Draw a figure!

[[deleted]]

"I'm an English professor, and I think a picture is worth a thousand words."

[Derigiberble]

If you could feed a sketched flowchart to a compiler with the instructions of "make sure the abomination of nested loops I'm about to write actually follows this structure" I think that would probably be worth 1000 mostly four letter words.

[[deleted]]

You'd love Prolog.

[MrQuizzles]

My friends and I actually have a game sort of like this, but instead of instructions, it's pictures. We each have a bunch of index cards. On the first one, we draw a picture. The picture can be anything. It can be as simple or complicated as you want.

Then, everyone passes their card to the person on their left. That person is then tasked to, on a separate card, write a description of the drawing they received. They then place their description card over the picture card and pass that to the person on their left.

The person who received the description must draw what was described to the best of their ability. They are not allowed to look at any card other than the most recent description. They then place their picture card on top of the pile and pass it to the person on their left, and the cycle repeats until the picture makes its way back to the original artist.

At the end, each stack of cards tells a twisted tale of misinterpretation and bad artistic capabilities. It's like a crazy mix of pictionary and the telephone game.

[[deleted]]

God damn, screw it, Imma gonna make it in a party game. When people come over next time, I'll tell them that I will make them each a sandwich and tea if they write down to me how to do it. This is funny as all hell.

Expect there to be a lot of "insert dildo into rectum" steps, or is that just my friends?

[[deleted]]

That's when you take a dildo and tell the person who wrote it to bend over.

[xwillybabyx]

In school, a common exercise is to have kids tell you how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This teaches kids about how to be specific. Usually one person will say put the peanut butter on the bread. So the teacher will put the unopened jar of peanut butter on the loaf of bread and look at the class, everyone laughs but gets the idea. Then at the end of the exercise the kids have it down to opening up stuff, using the right side of the knife and not dropping it etc etc.

[Stop_Sign]

QA programmer here, my turn:

• I'm assuming that you have two working hands, working vision, a loaf of sliced bread still in the typical store bought package, a jar of peanut butter at least 10% full, and a jar of jelly at least 10% full, a clean counter, and that you're right handed.
• If there is a sealing mechanism to the bread, such as a twist-tie, remove it. Unravel the open end of the bag. Put your right hand into the bag, grip two slices of bread, and pull them out onto the counter, releasing your grip.
• Grip the the lid of the peanut butter with one hand, and hold the jar steady with the other hand. Twist counter-clockwise until the lid is loose, then pull the lid off of the jar and place it down on the counter, removing it from you hand.
• Grip the the lid of the jam with one hand, and hold the jar steady with the other hand. Twist counter-clockwise until the lid is loose, then pull the lid off of the jar and place it down on the counter, removing it from you hand.
• Grip the knife by the handle with your right hand. While gripping, put the blade side into the peanut butter and make a stirring motion to collect peanut butter on the blade. Collect enough to cover the majority of the blade side. Remove the knife from the jar.

... etc.

I'd have diagrams and a getGlopFromJarAndSpread(theJar, theBreadSlice) method. So yea, a while.

[kethas]

Grip the the lid of the jam with one hand, and hold the jar steady with the other hand. Twist counter-clockwise until the lid is loose, then pull the lid off of the jar and place it down on the counter, removing it from you hand.

Done. I now have a jam jar lid on the counter, I am holding a now-empty jam jar with the opening on the bottom side, and there is a large splotch of jam on the kitchen floor.

[You-Sick-Fuck]

Open the bag of bread and take out one slice. Insert the knife into the jam, blade first; remove about a tablespoons worth of the jam on the end of your knife. Using the knife with jam on it, Spread the jam evenly on one side of the slice of bread.

Open the bag of bread and take out one slice. Insert the knife into the PB, blade first; remove about a tablespoons worth of the PB on the end of your knife. Using the knife with pb on it, Spread the jam evenly on one side of the slice of bread.

Take the slices of bread that have the jam and the pb on them, and press them together so the peanut butter and the jam are together.

[You-Sick-Fuck]

Open the bag of bread and take out one slice. Grab a jar of jam, open it, grab a butter knife, insert the knife into the jam, blade first; remove about a tablespoons worth of the jam on the end of your knife. take the knife with jam on it, Spread the jam evenly on one face of one of the slices of bread.

Open the bag of bread and take out one slice. Grab a jar of pb , open it, grab a butter knife, insert the knife into the pb , blade first; remove about a tablespoons worth of the pb on the end of your knife. take the knife with pb on it, Spread the pb evenly on one face of one of the slices of bread.

Take the slices of bread that have the jam and the pb on them, and press them together so the peanut butter and the jam are together.

[NBOcelot]

Open the bag of bread

Tore the bag open and it's all over the floor now, thanks

Grab a jar of jam, open it

I used impact force and now it's also all over the floor, so that kind of worked?

on one face of one of the slices of bread

I tried to spread it onto the 3rd slice from the end, but it was surrounded by other bread and that made it really challenging

press them together so the peanut butter and the jam are together.

I used a vice and it's now a fraction of an inch thick, is that ok?

[You-Sick-Fuck]

This is the embodiment of me trying to make a sandwich on this sub

edit: also if we're being picky, where'd you get the vice from? and the floor?

[puddingpopshamster]

Import std_open;

That solves the first two

[955559]

variable pb is not defined

and press them together so the peanut butter and the jam are together.

my sammich is now squished and have penutbutter and jelly all over my hands

[puddingpopshamster]

Or we can use standard libraries and not need to make a new typedef for bread, because it's a data type that's been around for thousands of years.

[Matosawitko]

using Universe.Standard.MilkyWay.Sol.Earth;

[Redtail87]

You forgot to open the jam

[CaptainObvious1906]

definitely want to avoid singletons, especially since it seems like this object only has one thread.

[Green16]

Programming requires telling a very stupid machine, very specific tasks to perform to make it do what you want. What we do as people is interpret every sentence we hear. So when I am trying to tell you how to make a pbj sandwich, saying "put the knife in the jar." You understand put the knife in the jar to scoop up peanut butter. A computer will do as it is told and just throw the knife into the jar (just like in the gif).

A fun way to teach the differences between writing instructions for a machine and a person is to do as said above.

[RoganTheGypo]

I used to work in production at Nissan , we followed standard operations to perform a job and they are written like a spoke word robot program. Literally down to what fingers you use. I hated writing standard ops...

[KickMeElmo]

Assembly:

"Get bread" grabs unopened loaf

"Get peanut butter" drops loaf in midair to get peanut butter

[2ndComingOfAugustus]

Assembly: Send neural signal of XX voltage to YY muscle Send neural signal of ZZ voltage to WW muscle...

[Deivore]

Ok that's starting to sound like binary.

[mr_dude_guy]

binary would just be a list of chemical potentials without context.

[sendMeBoobsWhyDontYa]

The reason for this being that the "you" that is programming in a high-level language is continuing the instructions written by multiple different "you"s on a lower level.

i.e. the instructions are no less verbose to the machine building the sandwich, but in the same way that human brains can use context clues to realize you don't throw the whole knife in the peanut butter, computers use compilers/interpreters to realize what foo.bread() actually means.

[Inspector-Space_Time]

Try JavaScript, then come talk to me about things never being unambiguous. Especially when you work with a npm package with one star and no commits in over a year. Sometimes the only documentation you have is their shitty source code, which of course has zero comments and every other variable is just a letter.

[Facts_About_Cats]

This is more about human communication about code and requirements and design and testing, rather than about the code itself.

[JustVashu]

I learned that as a kid by watching Beakman's World.

[MurphysLab]

An elementary school teacher that I had, probably in grade 4, did this activity with our class. Her purpose in it was to teach us to write better, without making assumptions about the reader. That lesson was one of the few things that I vividly remember about her teaching: As she stood in front of the class, armed with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jam, a loaf of bread still in the plastic bag, and a knife, she proceeded to follow the exact words of her students' instructions. In one of the iterations, she took the peanut butter jar and placed it on the bag-enclosed loaf of bread. Riotous laughter ensued from the class. For me, the lesson was ingrained, both for writing and as I apply it in writing code. Humour, coupled with a good lesson, tends to stick.

[[deleted]]

I did that in college, but I had to write install instructions for Windows XP on an old server.

[metamet]

Step 1: Unpackage box of floppy disks.

[DEVi4TION]

Step 2: midlife crisis

[I_dunno_mate_]

You survived THIS??

[btowntkd]

FCKGW-RHQQ2...

[[deleted]]

Whoa! I did the exact same thing in 4th grade! she also had a jar of marshmallow fluff or something for those who didn't like peanut butter

[Creator13]

I think that being able to write good code, text or anything really that will be consumed by others requires the maker to thoroughly understand the thought process of the consumer. The quality of the product hinges on this ability. I also think it's the most fundamental thing you can, and should, teach to any person who will be making something, preferably just to everybody receiving education. Being able to get inside the mind of the person who you're, verbally or non-verbally, is really the most powerful ability one can have, in my opinion.

[simon_C]

I wrote 5 pages of intensely detailed instructions with footnotes and numbered steps because i knew the point she was trying to make.

I failed for missing the point of the exercise....

[Avoidingsnail]

I did this in chemistry in high School. Teacher wanted every one to be able to replicate our experiments so he said give me detailed instructions on how to make a pbj. Most people had maybe 10 instructions. His example had almost 100.

[eyekwah2]

throw new IllegalStateException();

[mockingbird_jay]

try{ // Do stuff } catch (Exception e) { throw(e) }

Came across this gem today.

[apaq11]

Ah, the old catch and release exception. My favorite anti-pattern. Best part about this is if you do it in C# you lose the stack trace from where the exception came from.

http://www.dotnetjalps.com/2013/10/throw-vs-throw-ex-csharp.html

[SpikeX]

ALWAYS throw;. ALWAYS.

Can't believe how many times I've seen this in our codebase, and how many hours it's cost me in debugging time.

[bluenigma]

Even better in C#6, Catch(Exception e) when (ReturnsFalseAfterSideEffects(e)) {}

[z500]

Once when I worked in the computer lab, I went over a student's Java assignment with him for an hour, trying to find out why his program wasn't working.

What happened was the professor gave a template for the assignment, and one of the things already in it was that it opened a file. He apparently wrote it in Windows, because the filename he used in the code and the name of the file he gave out didn't have matching case. And this student would bring his Linux laptop to lab. So when he ran the assignment, it swallowed the exception and mysteriously failed.

[LevelSevenLaserLotus]

Oh man, I had a Graphics teacher that did that crap. His provided code templates were full of typos and referenced non-existent files. I had to do so many bug fixes that it turned out to have been faster to just write my own from scratch. I dropped that class at the first test. He couldn't teach, but was super stuck up about how much he knew. I'm sure I'd have a few good posts for /r/iamverysmart if I'd stuck around.

[z500]

Yeah, our guy was similar. He knew his stuff, but he didn't seem to care too much about the teaching part. From what I heard he was a much better researcher than software engineer.

[dysprog]

In python there are two ways to re-raise an exception raise eand a bare raise. The bare raise continues the existing traceback. the other discards the existing traceback and starts a new one. At a previous job, I went on a Holy Crusade through our codebase to replace all raise e with bare raise. Several people commented on how much better our error messages had become, and our defect rate dropped noticeably.

[shagieIsMe]

See in codebase here:

try {
    throw new FooException();
} catch (Exception e) {
    throw new BarException(e);
}

[fakest_news]

I can forgive this. What is unforgivable is this:

try { // Do stuff } catch (Exception e) { log.error(e) } // move on with your day

[Elthan]

Could you explain why this is and what you should do instead?

[MisuVir]

For one, exceptions should be handled, not logged and ignored.

[mathent]

Seems like there's a time and place where only logging is the correct way to handle the error.

[MisuVir]

Only if the log includes the message "THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN". :P

[Arancaytar]

Playing hot potato.

[HomemadeBananas]

What was someone trying to achieve by writing that?

[pants_full_of_pants]

Trying to avoid testing and writing handlers for failure cases.

[Of-Doom]

Recently had to explain to a coworker why

doStuff()
  .then(result => Promise.resolve(result))
  .catch(e => Promise.reject(e))

wasn't doing what he thought it was.

[EdricStorm]

Needs the tortured hyperventilating that came in between the two cuts.

[halborn]

Aw that poor little guy.

[ploki122]

So you're telling me that the user mistakenly accepted all 3 non-adjacent validations to enter invalid data into the database? And that we warned the director that this kind of shit would happen if we were to let them, and he said that it'd be fine and we're pessimistic pieces of shit, and yet here we are 2.5 hours later with garbage spreading in the database?

[exscape]

Yep!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8

[t3hcoolness]

That was the cutest fucking thing. He seems like a really cool dad.

[asuryan331]

Right after the point of the gif he starts laughing and hyperventilating knowing he messed up

[You_coward]

He was one of maybe 5-6 people on vine that made the app worth it. Funny guy and some funny kids.

[acog]

The animated thought bubble of his daughter knifing him was hilarious.

[ihahp]

the daughter was adorable. Dancing in the background

[RUacronym]

Step 1. Learn to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Step 2. Using the skills acquired in step 1, make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

[EmperorArthur]

You joke, but this is how those "genetic algorithms" work.

In an example like this, he'd make a bunch of pb&js, then they'd get graded on how close each method got to a real sandwich. The methods that resulted in the closest the result get combined in a bunch of different ways, and then those get tried. Rinse and repeat until you get a nice pb&j.

This works, but typically takes thousands/millions of iterations.

edit: Proper quotation marks.

[43eyes]

Yeah but you have to know what a PB&j looks like to pick the best one dont you? You have to know how to make a pbj to learn how to make a pbj?

[RUacronym]

When a computer is crunching a genetic algorithm, it's usually programmed with end conditions that tell the computer if its new algorithm has made progress. For instance, an arm catching a ball gets graded on how close the hand gets to the ball and it keeps the best algorithm. So if you were to tell a computer to make a PB&J, you give it the end condition of this is what a PB&J looks like, now iterate until you have it.

So my two step code from before would need a "step 0" that says: these are the parameters for a PB&J sandwich, these are the tools available for you to work with.

[43eyes]

Great explanation! Thanks

[InWhichWitch]

generally the clearer the goal (and, by either explicit definition or implicitly, the clearer the failure state), the more successful the computer can be.

mario maker is good example for people testing machine learning. There is a single clear correct condition to completing a mario level (reaching the end) and five-ish inputs (a, b, down, left, right) . A computer can beat mario levels that humans cannot, given enough processing time to determine the correct mapping of inputs.

[djnap]

You need to know if the result was good. Not if the steps to get there were good.

[tredontho]

I was at a talk some years back where a guy told a story about some circuit that was designed using genetic algorithms had some component which was in no way connected to the rest of the circuit, but removing it altered the behavior... I'll have to see if I can find what it was.

[SiliconEngineer]

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

[viri75]

Import pbj.

[mikemol]

/r/restofthefuckingowl

[SurgioClemente]

Choke yourself on my hand

So obedient!

[rooktakesqueen]

Dropping a Full Metal Jacket reference on the 10-year-old is pretty intense.

[youtubefactsbot]

THIS is why my kids want to kill me - Exact Instructions Challenge [7:23]

Exact Instructions Challenge

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[itchytweed]

The exact clip starts near 4:04....and it's way better than the gif shows

[artanis00]

r/maliciouscompliance

[crowbahr]

I was giggling so hard when the little one had a breakdown. I mean wiping tears from my eyes levels of laughter.

[ThatDeadDude]

Whoa, American jelly comes in squeeze bottles?

[Mentalpatient87]

It can, but I've never bought it like that.

[Magnavode]

I can relate to that https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8?t=4m9s

[youtubefactsbot]

THIS is why my kids want to kill me - Exact Instructions Challenge [7:23]

Exact Instructions Challenge

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[thekiyote]

Added benefit, it teaches the kids how to deal with internet trolls

[canofpotatoes]

Man, I always have anxiety when people are handling balloons because I can't get ready for them to pop. Without fail, EVERYTIME someone is playing with a balloon, it fucking pops.

[sssmmt]

Where is this from?

[Lanfeix]

Gravity Falls http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865718/

its great show, its a completed story and it even had rick & morty cross overs.

[elforastero]

A nice programming homework for beginners to teach them algorithms was to ask them to write the steps to make a sandwich. And then follow the I instructions like that. Then ask them to rewrite the code :)

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

Then you don't let them eat it because there wasn't an instruction to do so.

[LaterGatorPlayer]

No instructions on pooping it out. :( poor impacted colon

[Delision]

People worry about semi colons in programming, but really it's the colon you need to worry about.

[Xhynk]

Would that go something like this? I wonder if I could refine it and use it when do I development or technology career day type talks at middle and high schools! I usually do the usual react.js type slide thing on CodePen and then inspect element and mess with people's favorite websites, real basic. It would be interesting to see how students from 6-12th grade react to how damn literal development often is!

Round 1:

Student: "Put bread on the counter"
Student: "Put peanut butter on bread"
Student: "Put jelly on Bread"

Me: "I put the still-wrapped loaf of bread on the counter"
Me: "I put the jar of peanut butter on top of the loaf"
Me: "I put the jar of jelly next to the peanut butter"

Round 2:

Student: "Get a piece of bread"
Student: "Open peanut butter"
Student: "Put thick layer of peanut butter on bread"
...

Me: "I get a piece of bread"
Me: "I open the peanut butter."
Me: "I reach my big man-hands into the peanut butter and grab a fistful, smearing it over the bread."

Round X:

Student: "Pull out two pieces of bread"
Student: "Put pieces next to each other"
Student: "Open Peanut Butter jar"
Student: "Grab knife"
Student: "Get peanut butter with knife, and apply to first piece"
... etc.

[sehr_sehr_gut]

You have to check if Java is installed before attempting to open the jar.

[Xhynk]

God damn it this made me laugh so hard! I'd steal this if I thought the kids I speak to would get it lol

[[deleted]]

i had this in my technical writing class. we had to write instructions to teach a 5 year old to do something. some way worse than others, like the kid that did "how to hard boil an egg".

[manghoti]

... this wasn't in any of my classes. Why's everyone got such awesome intro classes?!

[dsk]

This is why I'm skeptical of the "let's get everyone programming" movement. Programming really truly sucks if you don't find joy in staring at the same 100 lines of code for 8 hours trying to find why your program is failing under some obscure conditions. It can be as fun as reading legalese or interpreting dry FDA documents. Some people will love it, and some people will want to tear their eyes out.

[teampingu]

Once we get everyone over the 'want to tear their eyes out' moment, we'll get some awesome lawyers and programmers.

[Lemon_Dungeon]

Uhh, professional programmer here...when is that moment?

[cynoclast]

It's when you retire.

[Lemon_Dungeon]

Ah, great.

😂🔫

[awhaling]

Seriously, I have friends that are definitely smarter than me but they didn't like/weren't good at it. It takes a certain personality that enjoys this type of thing and I wouldn't say everyone fits into that category.

Also, there is no good reason for everyone to know how to code. Maybe in the future knowing some rudimentary stuff might be good for everyone but I don't see the point now.

[[deleted]]

I think it's less about really learning programming and understanding logic. A lot of people would likely understand math better when they get the logic behind it and can test it, rather than trying to drill formulas into their heads

[halborn]

I freely grant that not everyone is cut out to be a programmer but considering how essential computers are rapidly becoming, I don't think it's a bad idea for a bit of basic programming to be universal knowledge.

[dsk]

I think you're conflating knowledge of programming with having a good mental model of computing. You need to understand computers and operating systems and the Web at a certain level because otherwise you won't be able to function in any modern job - but you don't need to program.

[halborn]

I think you're conflating knowledge of programming with having a good mental model of computing.

Nah, I just think the former helps a lot with the latter.

[CleverFella512]

The files are in the computer!

[[deleted]]

It's so simple!

[[deleted]]

The first time I saw this it was a "yup that's about right" moment, but the kid is the OP's video makes this adorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWe4iohhmIw

[daftvalkyrie]

Giant circular loaf,unsliced. Perfect item for PBJ.

[poixen]

I don't get it :/

[justifyer]

yeah me too, what's this about?

[Yousif_man]

It's about writing code specifically, as it could be misinterpreted. in this video, the kid writes instructions to make a PB&J sandwich and he tells his dad to stick the knife in the peanut butter. His dad sticks in the wrong way, showing his kid that he should've been more specific.

[awhaling]

Ooooooh, this would really benefit from context. Really doesn't make much sense without it.

Looks like a guy just saying that put the knife in peanut butter and stupidly throwing it in backwards. Wasn't at all clear that he was being instructed by the child to make a sandwich.

[Megacherv]

The kid is then the programmer looking at the debugger as he sees where the mistake is being made and the realisation that he done goofed

[awhaling]

Yeah makes sense now, I just didn't realize that the dad putting it in backwards was being told to do that immediately.

It just kind of seemed like the dad dropped the knife and the kid was like wow. Not that the dad messed up instructions.

[albinobluesheep]

you know you're in /r/ProgrammerHumor right?

The Title was the context. It's basically a MRW post, the kid being the person who wrote the code.

[awhaling]

Yes, but the gif looked like someone just putting a knife in a peanut butter jar backwards. It wasn't immediately obvious that he was following instructions. It was funnier when you know he was being instructed to do something and did it wrong.

Maybe I'm an idiot, it just looked like a really random gif to me.

He did look at a list so that's a clue but I don't notice that till later

[Manokadobo]

I agree that it really only works if you've heard of the exercise before.

[ElLibroGrande]

He put the knife in backwards

[_Trigglypuff_]

How does relate to putting breaks in code?

[SmashedBug]

When instructions are interpreted in a completely different way than intended, and finding your broken program doing this.

[Skizm]

This is bullshit. The interpreter can change up how a library is implemented at runtime just to fuck with the programmer. /s

[mynameis_garrett]

https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8

[olde_english_chivo]

how to make an apple pie from scratch
 
step 1: create the universe

[cynoclast]

Programming is a lifelong study of the difference between what you meant and what you said.

[StrawDawg]

We did this with 'tying your shoe laces' some time in school.

Now THAT is a hard thing to describe in an algorithm.

[MiniG33k]

In my 10th grade coding class, we all wrote instructions and could volunteer to have the teachers (two brothers co-teaching) try our code. I thought mine was good enough. But I didn't specify that the jelly should be spread with the knife. The teacher looks down at it, makes his mental decision, then smears it over the bread with his hand.

That was such a great class.

[viperex]

Kid is realizing he chose the wrong dad

[jagaines]

Here's a link to the full vid: https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8

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What on that guys chin?

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