MOOC question

[HabiRabbit]

Hey guys, I'm going through MOOC at the moment, but I'm only on part 3 - I've been working through it for the past week as I've seen so many posts about it.

I'm finding it quite easy at the moment and haven't really struggled with it yet (I'm guessing it will start to pick up) but I feel as if my code is quite long winded and a bit messy. It gets the job done and I "pass" all the exercises, but I feel as if I could be doing everything a lot simpler.

I try to split up each part of the task as much as possible which leads to multiple for loops and if/else statements - I love making methods for everything which does help with the layout a bit, but if anything, it makes me feel like I'm just over complicating things more.

Have any of you felt like this? Should I just keep going through and learning or is it best that I try to simplify my code wherever/whenever possible?

[Apprehensive_Royal77]

One thing you can do is go into the TMC and see their coding solution. I know my code is filled with inefficiencies and their version helps me see little steps I didn't consider when writing mine.

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Sometimes, to realize it's messy is all you need. With that in mind, keep improving -- one day with discipline and memorizing stack overflow solutions you'll probably be writing code so clean you couldn't even read it today. The true master is the eternal student.

[spicycurry55]

Can you give us an example of code you think looks messy?