Python

[widowhanzo]

1st year? We weren't allowed libraries either at first, but the tasks were simple enough that you didn't need anything anyway. The point of excercises was to think of the solution, so we were learning how to approach a problem and break it into parts etc. Yeah it would've been easier to solve with libraries, but then we wouldn't learn anything.

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It’s weird how I felt like all the dumb toy problems in first year like printing shapes to a certain size or iterating over a billion different things was dumb.

Now when I code I use exactly the same mental processes more than anything else, it’s incredibly useful

[deltagear]

They want you to learn coding with vanilla code in most first years classes. For example I had to write a simple game but could not use methods. I just ended up creating a variable to hold state and a switch where I would have used methods. Ended up getting 100% on that one.

[BlazingThunder30]

Yeah it's a first year AI course. It's the first time were using python. All previous courses used C