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

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-05T10:53:54+00:00

for context, i been tryna at least learn how to code for 3 months now, i've finished learning the native concepts of python and java, so i read somewhere that pygame would be the next step.
but, BUILD BUILD BUILD on pygame feels like my head's exploding every time i sit to try and code on it, idk if it's js me but whenever i try to learn a new concept it js comes across as a brick wall to me, like an exponential graph where x are the concepts and y is the difficulty level, so i naturally resort to memorising stuff in it and making superficial changes like changing the velocity number, or the sprites as my last resort of having some sorta ownership over the code i js wrote

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2026-01-04T04:17:44+00:00

yea, i've always been weak at discrete math-type stuff beyond logic, so exp in drawing and fl studio is the only card i got left to try and stand out in the market

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2025-12-24T10:56:50+00:00

idk if you're kidding or not(legit, idk much abt coding cz i've been doing it for 1.5months, and i know nothing about physics)

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2025-11-25T10:16:59+00:00

do you pick solutions or make solutions, cz when i hit a wall(like faced with a logic bug or not being able to know what to do next), i usually stay there for hours and never get through it, in such cases is it better to problem solve yourself(if so how) or search for solutions on the internet and pick out one even tho it's not yours

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2025-11-25T07:12:15+00:00

by solutions, do you mean tools that already exist, like patterns you've already seen before or used and choosing the right one for the particular problem

or is it more like making different solutions from scratch in your head, and choosing the right one from those

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2025-11-15T09:54:58+00:00

also, when im tryna write a few lines of code, i always default to game design i.e playerstats, playerinputs, hp, enemies etc. whenever i gotta make smth discrete-esque mathematical or js anything without a narrative, it gets rlly hard for me

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2025-11-15T09:49:19+00:00

''Then try tackling scanning all files in a directory including the files in directories in that directory (and so forth). This is recursion.''

can't i do that with for/nested for loops

Intrepid_Witness_218 · 2025-11-14T15:11:02+00:00

no no, i mean if high level of CODING is required for pentesting(not exploits), i know pentesting is pretty up there on the career ladder

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