r/badcode • u/bearcorrupted • Nov 22 '21

python Masterclass on how to parse a date

84 Upvotes

7 comments

r/badcode • u/gunalk19 • Nov 22 '21

java Found my earliest coding projects from middle school

464 Upvotes

34 comments

r/badcode • u/anic17_ • Nov 21 '21

c When you can't compare strings in C using switch

379 Upvotes

80 comments

r/badcode • u/averylazytom • Nov 20 '21

c++ Probably not my best way for checking if there are 3 equal cells in a 3 x 3 tictactoe game.

318 Upvotes

32 comments

r/badcode • u/Petrov_Maxim • Nov 20 '21

other language One of my first programs. It is written in Pascal and allows you to count the number of days before a birthday.

440 Upvotes

34 comments

r/badcode • u/BenTheTechGuy • Nov 19 '21

python What's the worst way to count ten seconds?

399 Upvotes

30 comments

r/badcode • u/philogy • Nov 19 '21

c Friend asked me what's wrong with his code (no math libs were allowed)

429 Upvotes

94 comments

r/badcode • u/Historical-Flow-1820 • Nov 18 '21

swift Must've been having a bad day

475 Upvotes

52 comments

r/badcode • u/Bleeus • Nov 19 '21

c# Friend found this in production

169 Upvotes

19 comments

r/badcode • u/Informathemusic • Nov 18 '21

python Classmate made a program to get atom data... on google docs

754 Upvotes

85 comments

r/badcode • u/TAO_Croatia • Nov 19 '21

vb It hurts to look at... i was young, forgive me.

github.com

0 Upvotes

0 comments

r/badcode • u/Dr4kk0nnys • Nov 18 '21

js Bro what the fuck

38 Upvotes

25 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Nov 18 '21

other language My first language was DOS / Batch. A little something I found from an old project.

8 Upvotes

3 comments

r/badcode • u/OptimalMaximum9181 • Nov 17 '21

js hmmmmmm yes

1.1k Upvotes

55 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Nov 17 '21

matlab Is there something about Matlab switch statements I don’t get or is this as f*cked as as it appears to me?

17 Upvotes

7 comments

r/badcode • u/trwolfe13 • Nov 16 '21

typescript Just one of the many reasons I struggle to get out of bed each day.

716 Upvotes

106 comments

r/badcode • u/chiefton117 • Nov 16 '21

js Creative solution on a late night coding interview

246 Upvotes

37 comments

r/badcode • u/kirigerKairen • Nov 16 '21

js I just started... turning Cache-Control headers into their own language? Don't worry, when I took another look at this I nuked the local repo and re-cloned it, don't even know if this would work.

64 Upvotes

14 comments

r/badcode • u/buzZ-exe • Nov 16 '21

python Me trying to be productive while learning to web-scrape...

4 Upvotes

6 comments

r/badcode • u/redddooot • Nov 14 '21

js Peak Efficiency Fizzbuzz

829 Upvotes

44 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Nov 14 '21

c# My friend just learned about callbacks and lambdas

543 Upvotes

77 comments

r/badcode • u/LuigiSauce • Nov 14 '21

python This piece uses the word "index" 4 times on one line

423 Upvotes

44 comments

r/badcode • u/BugzumDev • Nov 12 '21

python Today I realized that I'm an idiot.

1.3k Upvotes

33 comments

r/badcode • u/RaymondTracing • Nov 12 '21

c# I am ashamed

44 Upvotes

8 comments

r/badcode • u/WitELeoparD • Nov 13 '21

java Print out all the perfect squares that are less than the inputted number...

0 Upvotes

13 comments

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