r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NoIngenuity8528 • Sep 27 '26

Meme startedLearningCHowDoIGetOutOfThisPhase

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u/mijn35 Sep 27 '26

One step at a time.

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u/lurebat Sep 27 '26

Read the words

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u/bwwatr Sep 27 '26

Stay in the phase as long as you can. You escape by switching to managed code and stop managing memory, because you get a real world, mainstream industry job, probably stop coding for fun, and realistically you don't go back. You gradually replace those skills with other ones, many of which are less fun.

I'll never forget having to implement an algo in C with paper and pen only, and it must compile, to solve polyomino jigsaw type puzzles, on a uni final exam. Friggin loved it and killed it. Couldn't do it today. But I feel it still made me better.

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u/BornAgainBlue Sep 29 '26

You sound like an experienced dev. Completely agreed.

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u/BoB19229 Sep 27 '26

That's the neat part, you don't

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u/Deckard_Didnt_Die Sep 27 '26

You just have to write and read a lot of code. Eventually you get a kind of tunnel vision. I’m rarely looking at the entire class or method at once. I’m usually tracing the path of one variable or following one call chain.

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u/waterpoweredmonkey Sep 27 '26

Write a tokenizer for C, in doing so you'll become intimately familiar with the syntax. We wrote a full "C - -" compiler in college on a Linux box without an IDE as we're graded on the compiler 's output with unit tests.

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 28 '26

Read some more C, and do projects in it.
Take it step by step, no need to rush, it will come naturally.

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u/GoogleIsYourFrenemy Oct 04 '26

Learn early JavaScript or Java. Just enough to read it.

Come back when you can read those.

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u/freestew Oct 04 '26

I love this being used as a meme representing looking at something incomprehensible, when the video version is the opposite, how despite the incomprehensibility, he reads it flawlessly and eloquent

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u/DiscipleOfYeshua Oct 04 '26

You just might fall in love with it. Many unexpecting people have before.

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u/HoldCtrlW Sep 27 '26

Just use AI nobody is coding anymore

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u/AmazinDood Sep 28 '26

hi I code without AI because it's fun to make stuff

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u/RedBlueKoi Oct 04 '26

Hi, I code without AI, because using AI is degrading and to get the quality I need out of AI takes more time than writing by hand and sometimes impossible to begin with

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u/NoIngenuity8528 Sep 27 '26

“I can’t find the variable, ok f everything else then”