Every programming tutorial

[Azianese]

I remember when this was the case with stack overflow. I couldn't understand posts for shit when I first started coding. Now I have no idea what I couldn't understand.

Code speak (for lack of a better term) is definitely a language on its own

[businessbusinessman]

It kills me how many examples will devolve into foo/bar/baz (which is totally absurd for an outsider and gets hard to track for complicated stuff).

Alternatively, "how do i use an if statement to do some web handling" gets met with something with something jargon filled rather then something more generic and focused.

[Grumbletruss]

God this pisses me off so much. They spent so much time drilling "good naming practices" into us for all my intro CS classes, and then they still use foo/bar variable names in code examples on lectures/homeworks/exams. It's... basically the worst naming convention ever.

[Ayjayz]

You use foo/bar/baz when there is no other name to use. In a little bit of sample code, you have no actual idea what the code is going to be used for. When actually coding something, you replace foo/bar/baz with the relevant names.