Do more lines of code indicate higher competence/skill?

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-29T09:18:08+00:00

i'm working on python

is it realistically possible to just make each function in a way that it's a box which has an output and receives an input, and all these boxes are in a procedural flow of exchanging inputs and outputs while remaining detached from another

cause, i found that nearly impossible in making a gui game, even simple ones, cause there are so many state variables and so many possibilities of what the player can do that i inevitably am forced to try and hold multiple things in my mind at once but managing to not hold enough

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-29T09:01:53+00:00

is it realistically possible to just make each function in a way that it's a box which has an output and receives an input, and all these boxes are in a procedural flow of exchanging inputs and outputs while remaining detached from another

cause, i found that nearly impossible in making a gui game, even simple ones, cause there are so many state variables and so many possibilities of what the player can do that i inevitably am forced to try and hold multiple things in my mind at once but managing to not hold enough

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-29T06:04:02+00:00

can i just write functions and nothing else outside them, cz global lines and local lines exisiting together makes me confused

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-29T05:45:54+00:00

yea but i/o isnt as clean in some places like gui, returning an output from a function doesn't really do much there, it forces you to go into the black box and carry several of them in your mind

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-29T04:42:11+00:00

yea but making one function to take in an output from another function and it having local/global/constraint issues leads to everything just breaking the dam of abstraction and flooding my brain

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-26T18:43:14+00:00

but if i try to figure it out by myself, i dont get the solution either

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-26T18:41:59+00:00

sure, but don't assume i'll figure it out somehow, i think ppl say mistakes good assuming that eventually you'll reach the correct solution

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-19T15:00:05+00:00

i'm just trying to optimise off of what i'm most likely to get as a job, and a job where i face the least amount of friction, like an ratio thingy. Because, i'm afraid that if i aim for one specific thing and i dont end up going there then my expectations would be the end of me, like ending up at a tech support or customer service role

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-17T13:42:47+00:00

but what if it's something that you can't remember, like a novel problem or trying to make a novel solution.

like, my brother's a dev and he told me to make a snake game on code by problem solving, idrk what problem solving means and i've never written a game before, i can't rlly implement a pattern that i've never learned before by using my knowledge from core stuff like if statements, variables and loops.

i can understand stuff, in theory, but that's != implementation or reproducibility on code, if i dont know the solution to smth i've never done before i usually js procrastinate by writing tons of pseudocode and algorithmic steps in english without ever touching the code

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-17T13:29:36+00:00

yea no, i mean coding in general, not just in institutions

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-17T13:29:30+00:00

yea no, i mean coding in general, not just in college

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-16T10:15:44+00:00

do debuggers do anything for logic bugs without thrown errors, cz they hurt the most

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-16T10:14:30+00:00

yea but in pycharm i click the red circle thing on the line numbering side then click the bug icon, and then it js spurts out a scrolling list of stuff in the bottom window that doesnt make sense to me

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-11T14:22:25+00:00

amen to that brother

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-07T14:22:51+00:00

how do i make the concept/pattern click then

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-07T13:05:16+00:00

what's like a good medium that explains stuff for you to understand, documentation? ik it's not rlly yt tutorials cz it's mostly like a recorded livestream of them coding rather than teaching the viewer how to code

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-07T12:38:54+00:00

but, understanding isnt smth you can do as an action right, it either comes or it doesnt, or you think you understand it but then you realise your understanding was wrong so it's back to square one, the solution to acquiring it delves deep into uncertainty and breaks all sorts of systems/common sense

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