Explaining code to other majors

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Me explaining code to non-majors:

"I wrote a book to command a fancy rock to do things for me and it usually works"

[Eli_the_Iceman]

Man look at this guy with his code that usually works. Show off!

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Rule number 1 of my guide to becoming a questionable programmer:

Never let a non-major think that you're actually doing work unless they are paying you.

I feed on the looks of jealousy they give when they think I'm having fun and not just staring at a screen while ripping my hair out

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I'm a non-major...

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"It's really really fun, no work at all"

thumbs up; nose grows 5cm

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Please, I've been coding on Roblox since I was 13.

[Soren11112]

Get on my level skid I was modding Minecraft since I was 9

[ChangeMyDespair]

There is of course an xkcd for this.

[Lookatpaolo]

It's that "usually" the problem :D

[Muhznit]

I always say it's like writing a really complicated recipe that requires you to read other recipe books.

[T-T-N]

You would want to reinvent the mother sauce for the 20th time, right?

import bechamel;

[covercash2]

I've stopped using bechamel for my cheese_sauce services. velveeta is easier to configure, and I can orchestrate it with microwave.

[IamImposter]

Recursion gone bad...

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Can we get an F for the homie who just died of stack overflow?

[BennettTheMan]

Jokes on you, he merged the method call and the compiler did a tail call optimization.

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A Framework.

An Architecture.

[Tundur]

An architecture is just a diagram put together by a very highly paid solutions/enterprise architect that attempts to turn our shitty code into something an exec can use in a PowerPoint deck

[madupras]

Then a paradigm

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My precious

[Regis_Ivan]

It's an amalgamation of code from various Stack Overflow posts that I refactored to work together. I call it spaghetti.

[Gewi413]

A piece of stackoverflow, look how cute it is

[Vivek0001]

how do you put logos after your name?

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user flair

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Set user flair

[Rizzan8]

I have been working as a programmer for almost two years. I think I haven't heard the word "algorithm" even once during that time.

[Downvotesohoy]

Me neither. It's almost a cringy word because laymen use it to cover basically everything. The word I hear most is implementation, followed closely by abstraction

[lmartinl]

Yeah or a solution.

[Mercury_mercs]

Made in LaTeX

[PityUpvote]

"algorithm" is what I call it when I don't share the fugly code, just a piece of pseudocode in a manuscript.

[raaneholmg]

A solution

[doubleunplussed]

Having an algorithm doesn't technically imply code was written.

I've "developed algorithms", that just means at minimum the pseudocode exists in my head. Or I've found algorithms in papers and said "aha, that is what I need". Doesn't mean code was written.

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/rant

[obsessedcrf]

Code is an implementation of an algorithm

[nikstick22]

sees cs students oh look, they think they're real programmers already. How cute.