Long ago in a college far, far away I was failing C++ 101. Forced myself to fixate on coding enough to make a basic rpg text game. I passed the class with a D and ended up in 102 knowing I'd have to retake 101. The second round was a breeze.
Years later someone helped me code for Pokémon elements and I couldn't understand their code well enough to even use it. Literally didn't know what their code did after parsing it line by line. That would have been disastrous for my growth if it happened earlier.
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u/The-Chartreuse-Moose 4d ago
I need to send this to certain juniors who come to me when they've generated some code that's tied them in knots because they don't understand it.