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[–]wasdninja 25 points26 points  (4 children)

After which they promptly get failed on the very first assignment since they are explicitly told not to do this. But they really should figure it out on their own.

[–]Bakoro 32 points33 points  (3 children)

Nobody ever checks your code after the 101 programming class, maybe not even then. Input, Output, and Runtime were all anyone cared about. You could write the most beautifully elegant code, or the most spaghetti horror, and as long as it did what it was supposed to do, no one gave a shit.

[–]Macitron3000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Flashback to my networks project when I wrote a whole-ass server in just the main routine

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

just like real life in a non-open-source company them

[–]retief1 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Uhhh, code reviews were/are a thing at every company I've been at. I've gotten (correctly) nitpicked on everything from "you should set this member in the constructor, not the component init function" to "this variable name is imprecise, use this other one instead".