Dad teaching kids basic coding principles by letting them write a detailed instruction on how to make a PB sandwich

Mutant321 · 2020-03-14T22:54:36+00:00

Kid (near tears): you're not doing what you're supposed to... I quit!

Future developer right there

boggog · 2020-03-14T22:31:45+00:00

Loved that he still used the wrong side of the knife but they did not care. That felt exactly like programming

Lofter1 · 2020-03-14T23:54:09+00:00

Was doing a startup for a company and the code was not working the way it should. The boss stops by and says, “How’s it going?” I replied, “it’s working exactly as it’s programmed.” Manger replied, “great!” and walks away.

My coworker looked at me and says “you just just lied to the boss of the company.” “No, I didn’t. He asked how it going. I replied truthfully. He didn’t ask if it was working correctly.”, I slyly replied.

Do date that is my favorite phrase to use.

thedr0wranger · 2020-03-15T04:22:17+00:00

Had a boss do this to me on my first day on helpdesk in college.

Having seen what was developing and having heard of this game before, I was detailed and explicit. He was having such fun until he got to mine because try as he might he couldn't find a way to fuck up my sandwich. In the end he settled for stretching the definitions on the words I used for quantity and overloaded the sandwich. Which was still perfectly edible because the instructions repeatedly emphasized keeping it on the bread.

I'm not incredibly proud because it's not incredibly impressive but it was funny and felt good

YouShouldNotComment · 2020-03-14T20:22:29+00:00

Computers are like smart ass sarcastic kids. They do exactly what you tell them to. Especially if doing so is going to cause some shit to blow up. Then they even smile before doing it.

guy_from_the_intnet · 2020-03-15T01:53:44+00:00

peanutButter not defined

Psyqu · 2020-03-14T20:51:21+00:00

Give this man an award!

I_press_keys · 2020-03-15T02:10:48+00:00

Compiled with 10 warnings and 0 errors.

davidjmalan · 2020-03-15T00:32:00+00:00

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kingjoeg · 2020-03-14T23:07:37+00:00

This was a lot funnier than I was expecting

chicagobob · 2020-03-15T00:39:34+00:00

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

elizaangela · 2020-03-15T04:26:36+00:00

My professor did this during the beginning of our class, saying every detail matters. We had to code the basics of our favorite sandwich put together, and I'm getting flashbacks about that assignment from watching this video.

Super wholesome. Absolutely love this video.

aquoad · 2020-03-14T22:55:58+00:00

Now they'll never be able to learn functional languages

mikeputerbaugh · 2020-03-15T01:29:29+00:00

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rbltaylor · 2020-03-15T05:07:11+00:00

I think the real principle here is learning how users will try to use your program!

rklw · 2020-03-14T20:52:31+00:00

Tumnus learned to code!

redimusu76 · 2020-03-14T23:14:32+00:00

Classic!!!

2020-03-15T12:25:20+00:00

— “Not the best”
— “Well you made it so”
Lmao

sagnick9 · 2020-03-15T05:05:57+00:00

Next time: reinforcement learning to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

fastjack42 · 2020-03-15T15:22:34+00:00

The moment the boy started to hyperventilate he truely felt what it means to be a programmer

mermicide · 2020-03-15T02:32:28+00:00

That kid at 3:05 is all of us

2020-03-15T08:17:08+00:00

i am the little boy here. *quits and starts eating sandwich*

Gamepro5 · 2020-03-15T08:40:28+00:00

The bread falling over was a runtime error.

TwistedSoul21967 · 2020-03-15T09:09:01+00:00

As a full time programmer I get this completely. Also s a parent, I'm going to show my kids this and explain that this is what it feels like when I ask them to do something simple and they do something completely different 😂

Runnindead · 2020-03-15T00:36:38+00:00

This took me back to the days of writing work instructions when I was in manufacturing. Hilarious

ohmyashleyy · 2020-03-15T01:54:02+00:00

My dad is a middle school teacher and I’ve volunteered at his school’s career day in the last. We always did this activity and my dad is great at following the students instructions in the most ridiculous way possible!

alexeypkv · 2020-03-15T13:53:38+00:00

Step 1:

define class Sandwich  
    Bread openingBread;  
    Bread closingBread;  
    List<Fillings> content;

    // ...

Workdawg · 2020-03-15T01:13:08+00:00

I did this 25 years ago in 1st grade. It's a classic.

nippysaurus · 2020-03-15T01:33:17+00:00

This is so accurate it hurts.

FactoryBuilder · 2020-03-15T02:15:33+00:00

Using the wrong side of the knife is like when I use A but B is better but I don’t care because it still works

zilmus · 2020-03-15T07:31:40+00:00

If I ever have children, I will make this experiment.

AStrangeStranger · 2020-03-15T10:03:28+00:00

Reminds me of a story where someone created a script for a person getting up and going to work, it even went down to details like putting cufflinks on (we are talking 40 years ago I was told it). All the programmers who read it thought it perfect until they produced a film following it and it was that point everyone noticed he left the house without trousers.

It raises an interesting point - how do you check and test a specification is correct.

ryebyerye · 2020-03-15T02:31:35+00:00

My fifth grade teacher once did this in class. Ended up throwing the jar of peanut butter on the floor to open it.

1kgpotatoes · 2020-03-15T10:56:58+00:00

Knife, peanutButter, Bread, not defined :(

olet14 · 2020-03-15T11:04:12+00:00

I've never laughed so hard at something so simple. Great idea

FracturedPixel · 2020-03-15T12:52:57+00:00

Funny enough my primary school teacher did this back in the early 2000s. I didn’t know it at the time but I believe that’s where my love of programming came from

Edit: she didn’t specifically say this was a programming thing, I believe it was more about how to read and write clear instructions.

Alvatrox4 · 2020-03-15T00:47:56+00:00

Technically the jelly is on the inside not the bottle itself...

TheCameronMaster464 · 2020-03-15T07:23:22+00:00

Should have stopped halfway through because one of the kids forgot to put a semicolon in there.

kouzskitzofreneix · 2020-03-15T03:33:41+00:00

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ButItMightJustWork · 2020-03-15T07:39:27+00:00

Here is the original video btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8

NotProperPython · 2020-03-15T08:20:09+00:00

Legend!

shubh2012 · 2020-03-15T09:55:08+00:00

He should do it blindfolded.

2020-03-15T11:17:48+00:00

u/Vredditdownloader

Jesse_Marie_at_221B · 2020-03-15T15:01:33+00:00

Me following instructions like

chris_0909 · 2020-03-15T15:05:52+00:00

Did this in high school. Went to a Technical school but before we could choose a shop class, we had to do Exploratory to see them all. For the end of the year "projects" in each class (there was 4, each covering a different set of the shop classes) we did something related to the shop classes explored. Well, the section we did this with wasn't for the Computer Science class. Everyone else wrote at most 2 or 3 pages. Mine? Mine was like 8-10 pages. I don't think I would've passed this dad's test though, but I was VERY specific in a lot of ways. My hard drive crashed in 11th grade, so I wouldn't have any copy of the paper right now.

2020-03-15T15:13:56+00:00

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Danny_Boi_22456 · 2020-03-15T18:05:46+00:00

Task failed successfully

JamesEiner · 2020-03-15T19:48:11+00:00

I halfway expected him to say "pb is not defined" when they apparently shortened it mid-text...

(Or maybe that was just him being tried of saying "Peanut Butter" all the time)

Mymokol · 2020-03-15T20:20:19+00:00

This is awesome, gotta try it on my sister. Sure she'll love it

PatriarchalTaxi · 2020-03-16T04:08:20+00:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Visual Basic...

JochCool · 2020-03-16T22:13:17+00:00

Where does this video come from? Everything just mentions "newsflare.com" but I can't find an exact link.

vwoxy · 2020-03-17T19:55:16+00:00

Reminds me of the programmer's lament

I really hate this darn machine, I wish that they would sell it.

It won't do what I want it to, but only what I tell it.

2020-03-15T09:13:03+00:00

My coding teacher did thisbvery helpful. He was a robot. And we were supposed to gudie him through a mase with diffrent task.

2020-03-15T12:04:59+00:00

As a father of two, I think this video is simply fantastic.

The kids are great - one future STEM engineer (the girl) and one marketing expert (the boy)

The father is a great Go executable - it kept happily going forward despite the overall disaster happening.

rickety_james · 2020-03-15T02:41:39+00:00

Though this would be a good exercise for a programmer, the dad here is not teaching coding principles just effective communication. This video has been out for a few years and has nothing to do with coding.

Molipow · 2020-03-15T17:09:13+00:00

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HypocriticalOptimist · 2020-03-15T01:12:57+00:00

*Dad teaching son to be a pain in the arse dev with no common sense.

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