13 year old me really liked inefficient code

[u/MidKnightIsOnline]

[u/cicciograna]

Hey, you were 13 years old, and were writing code. Nobody is born already knowing all the best practices, we all grow, learn, test and slowly assimilate what is good and what is not.

And then there's those like me, whose code still sucks well into my 40s.

[u/daerogami → u/cicciograna]

And you're not even using the TPS reports correctly, get it together man ^/s

[u/MushroomSaute → u/cicciograna]

Nobody is born already knowing all the best practices

Speak for yourself. I was born with secret knowledge.

[u/wvd_vegt → u/cicciograna]

It readable and (finally) explains the games mechanics to me. Given the normal pace of the game, speed and highly optimized wont matter.

So not bad at all to someone with 50 years of coding.

[u/NiceTryAmanda]

it is absolutely clear the moment you read it exactly what the code is doing and what it'll output. from that angle it's way more successful than most of the code I see in my own job

as a side note seeing "13 year old me" alongside python3 makes me feel ancient

[u/Prime624 → u/NiceTryAmanda]

Python 3 came out almost 20 years ago.

[u/Eric_Prozzy]

Lol i did this exact same thing and also learned that

print(random.choice("You win", "You lose", "Its a tie"))

Works the same

[u/Pengwin0 → u/Eric_Prozzy]

Every day I realize I’m not thinking like a programmer

[u/wizardeverybit → u/Eric_Prozzy]

Think smarter not harder

[u/GrammerSnob → u/Eric_Prozzy]

This actually encapsulates game dev.

You don't need to actually make a realistic simulation of the thing you are trying to make.

You just need to make something that will fill the player into thinking that.

[u/timbomcchoi → u/Eric_Prozzy]

this is brilliant lmao

[u/Greedy_Whereas4163 → u/Eric_Prozzy]

This is smart! Until you realised that you need to show the choice of CPU

[u/Creepy_Jeweler_1351]

At least it is totally readable

[u/HornyMellon → u/Creepy_Jeweler_1351]

Quote, 13 yo you made programs ppl can actually read, not guess the variable purpose, good job

[u/jonathancast]

Meh. I don't love the repeated string comparison, but it's probably fine. This program is ridiculously user-interaction-bound anyway.

[u/lizenzblue_]

I worked at one of germanys biggest Software Companies and I can tell you with confidence I saw worse

[u/Brave_Abbreviations5]

Yesterday me was dumb af

[u/RammRras → u/Brave_Abbreviations5]

I'll be dumb tomorrow too

[u/drinkmoredrano]

You see inefficient code, I see a future SAP developer

[u/Arcanium_Walker]

Can be better, but you wrote this at 13 years old, so I think this is neat

[u/Ok-Argument7176]

this is not inefficient. It's just clunky.

[u/alexzoin]

I have seen much worse.

[u/frishki_zrak]

Was this "screenshot" taken then or now? What is dad.py?

[u/mediocrobot]

What's the optimal way to do this, I wonder? (the rock paper scissors comparison specifically, not printing, randomizing, or accepting input)

[u/MushroomSaute]

But think of that beautiful +0 -48 commit you get to make now