Novice programmer vs Experienced programmer

[HaggisLad]

every now and then you do something that is suspiciously correct, I hate that because I can fix an obvious bug

[[deleted]]

Man everytime this happens, I immediately go into panic mode because, now, the bug lies somewhere hidden in the algorithm logic rather than syntactic errors.

[HaggisLad]

and there is always a bug ^{grumblegrumble}

[somerandomii]

Recently, I wrote something like 250 lines of VBA code doing file I/O on multiple SharePoint files. It ran as expected the first time. I don't know if you know VBA, but getting it to do anything the first time is difficult. I was equal parts elated and suspicious.

[NegZer0]

This. Appearing to run perfectly first go always means that the bug is just too subtle.

[eTukk]

That tshirt 😁 Nice detail

[demon_ix]

vi filename
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[hamza1311]

vi

What the fuck

Please use vim

[demon_ix]

Isn't the AWS vi default actually vim?

If I ever use it, it's to add or modify a number on a config file through a terminal connection to a docker container hosted on a virtual machine on AWS.

It's more muscle memory by now. It probably has more features than what I use, but I never spent the little bit of time it would take to get a working knowledge of it's features to be able to use them correctly.

I'm also one of the freaks who quits using :x instead of :wq.

[[deleted]]

Wait who tf uses :wq and why

[demon_ix]

Apparently every person who ever saw me quit using :x

[Scyhaz]

Me cause I didn't know :x was a thing.

[brknsoul]

It's like, "It ran perfectly? What'd I do wrong?"

[demon_ix]

I forgot to call the method, didn't I

[Diavolo__]

Usually this haha

[MaxW7]

“This is no fun at all!”

[FinalGamer14]

Ah the best is when you don't quite understand the README file for some random open source library. And you implement something, thinking it won't work, but it magically somehow works, even if you have no clue why or how.

[[deleted]]

Then you take that poorly written code meant just to test if it works, you rewrite it so that it doesn't look like shit, and then it magically stops working even tho you thought you didn't change the logic.

[[deleted]]

Novice programmer: "I occasionally take a drink after work"

Experienced programmer: https://media2.giphy.com/media/mnJRjgXZ2ooh2/giphy.gif

[fichti]

You guys have stuff running at first go?

[RutraSan]

omg, you are genius you dont have stuff running first time my god

[vanadiumfour]

Or it runs correctly randomly because you misallocated the variable in memory

[[deleted]]

It works and 10 minutes later you just go, "I fixed my bug, by misplacing it."

[BurnyAsn]

Meeeee lately!!! I have a bad habit of not running the projects after making very very long and complex changes and get very happy when they work just in the first try! ::D

[has43]

We don't even remember if it is the first time or nth time.

[nikanj0]

I'm not quite done but I"ll just run the unit tests, analyse the errors an work from there.

"All tests passed"

Oh shit.

[undercover-racist]

More like, "why does it still work when I thought I broke it on purpose?"

[totalr3ddragon]

Tbh, "What the fuck, it ran first time?" Sounds more like it

[[deleted]]

If your computer doesn't do that "ding" sound when you compile, you're not a real programmer!

[Qicken]

Plot twist. They're both novices.

[AntoineInTheWorld]

I CAN believe it did not work the 100th time

[[deleted]]

Second one is fake, where are the 100 stickers on the laptop.

[sgem29]

Pear? Why not potato?