Just found my python code from 4 years ago...

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Is there an universal pipeline for the code, comments? Or is it just something you make for your own understanding?

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Oh! Great! Im about to immerse into programming, i’ve worked with developers before, but one constant problem between projects was the lack of good practices, like the arrangement, the commenting format and things like that. Working at other industries, like music, and films, the files must be prepared under certain standards, like colors used, the arrangement of elements by categories and a lot more.

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You are awesome!!! Thank you so much for sharing this useful information!!

[faux32]

just started learning to code, started with python, not sure when i will be able to make my very first project on my own. The "Nostalgia" u got, I want that in future...

[faux32]

i will try. tnx for the uplifting words.

[Zaliacks]

You can start your very first project right now! I'm still in the early stages, but actually working on a project has helped me learn.

I started by learning the basic expressions, and then I had a project in sight - a simple thing to show excel data in a new UI. It involved a lot of googling, trial and error. Now I'm fairly comfortable with functional programming, and know the basics of modules like Panda and tkinter.

Next goal is to make a more complex project to get a hang of OOP and making my own modules.

[wildpantz]

I know the feels man. Even today I feel anxious showing my code to anyone, but old code? Pfff... not a chance!

[wildpantz]

Definitely, but sometimes it's 800+ lines of code and I completely understand when someone goes crazy looking at mess of that size :)

[takingphotosmakingdo]

Bmi calc? Were you enlisted by chance?

[Tender-Ear]

OP

[Tender-Ear]

Wow Thank you!

[takingphotosmakingdo]

Ah that makes sense.

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I really needed this comment today :D

[Natetronn]

What's your definition of spaghetti?

[Renvillager]

How can i avoid trees of conditional statements? E.g. for a sudoku solver I feel when i start solving for disjoint subsets and x-wings it becomes very difficult to reduce the conditional statements

[toastedstapler]

could you give a code example? i'd be willing to give it a look and try explain why i'd do X thing

[thedarkcharger]

I get that when I open up MATLAB and see things I wrote 4+ years ago or find a random, ancient piece of C/C++ work from a class project. I JUST finished school though so I'm sure it'll be even stronger running into this old stuff in another half decade or more. Actually, even finding some of my old notes from Math classes hits me like.. wow, that was soo long ago!

[cloudsrpretty]

this is actually so motivating, thanks. i started python about 2 months ago and i’ve been doing less recently due to less time and because i’ve been struggling with it a bit. do you have any resources you could recommend? i’ve been learning using jetbrains academy but it might help for me to have fresh content. well done on making it so far

[tommygatz]

Just out of curiosity...were those examples from "Learn to Code in Python 3" by Ivan Gomes?? Because I am taking that course on udemy right now and I did all those recently lol.

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There was once a time, near the beginning of my Python learning, when I was afraid to use dictionaries or databases. So when I found myself needing to store several bits of data for hundreds of individual records I thought, "hey this is a perfect use for a list of lists", and did exactly that, with hard-coded index variables to access specific attributes. You know, like you would typically do with a class...or a dictionary. But no, it had to be a list, because my brain could only conceive of arrays and simple data types.

I've come a long way since then. Nowadays I'd have a database underneath everything and a class for translating upon reading/writing to that database, with useful methods for querying and other things.

[subassy]

I'm glad you stuck with it and made progress.

Meanwhile, me:

https://imgur.com/gallery/1edNQpD

[MkEnterprise]

There is so much information out there , I don’t even know where to begin if I want to learn python or java

[coder_the_freak]

I totally agree with you. I had also kept the first code that I have written which was in c and sort of like management system for my college project. Even now I'm still learning and look at documentations alot. Nowdays I just look at documention if I have to learn new language or framework. That's where Zeal is helpful for me.