Going through the notes of the C course I’m TAing, this man really introduced pointers in lecture 2 slide 7 huh
Sure so C has no access restrictions, but C’s gotta be the most secure language because no one
- Wants to read your code
- Can read your code
You ever just include 5 header files like you plan to Do Things and then write a 3 line code
#I did#C programming#a student made a very Interesting Choice#And changed the command line args return type#And I’m tasked with figuring out what that causes so I wrote 2 lines but included stdlib just for fun. And safety.#Programming#composers#studying#student#results to come btw this is pre-segmentation fault. Which is what I’m anticipating#programmer humor#students man
You know, the fun thing about peeking behind people’s running code is that you see how they went about thinking about things.
#i.e. running round and round in circles#Today I found:#if (condition) { A} else {A}#what am I supposed to even do#part of me tut-tuts that that's four wasteful lines of code#but they're also not 5 so I can't write a comment on every line in a 100-line code like?#The inclination here is I might not be cut out for this teaching business#I love my students but they're cholesterol sometimes#C Programming#coding#teaching assistant#academia#the student saga continues
You know how there’s stuff that comes up every once in a while in a textbook that says, “whatever you do, don’t do this!” and you think to yourself, “why would anyone do that, seems fairly intuitive”? Well, if you’ve thought that, you’ve clearly never taught students.
#the student saga continues#what did they do this time?#redefined a hash define#all of a sudden it makes sense why people would write their constants in caps#I never thought I'd realise that through example but here we are#C programming#teaching assistant#C is hard#programming#programming is hard#university#students#academia#why#studying#correcting assignments is :(
Update to the arrays saga: I read a piece of code written by my incredibly talented students and I have now reliably forgotten how arrays work.
#It's the dumbest thing ever#I'm looking at one student's code now to correct another student's code#this is bad isn't it#My brain = swirlie ice cream except it's disgusting#oh man now I want a swirlie... anything that's not reading more of this code#I cannot with my students#There's an urban saying about C programming:#If you survive it once get the hell outta there do not look back do not pass go keep running and definitely don't teach it!#I mean I made that up but there's a reason why it's an urban saying#C programming#Computer science#Computer science is hard#arrays are hard#students#academia#wtf#university#teaching assistant
So the kiddies passing in 8 variables to a function because arrays suck and not using loops are back at it again (EIGHT VARIABLES ARE YOU KIDDING ME), and this time I have my mother’s backing to be ruthless, in her own words, “That’s like saying these kids didn’t learn multiplication and just keep adding things together” and ngl she’s at her most ruthless when she isn’t even trying
aeolianblues reblogged
Unfortunately I cannot hold it against my students that they use bubble sort but hoo boy if I could
The nerve of this kid to just casually drop the fact that he’s passed eight variables to a function is almost convincing
I’m off to bed, I’ve seen too much
TIL modularity overkill is a thing, fuck me if I thought I could sleep after that
#five one line functions#I know each new post is just me adding another example of terribly structured code in the tags but hey who reads the tags let me vent#close your eyes and imagine a program that does this:#main - loop 8 times {get_input() } get_input() {scanf...}#I am actually horrified#I like little blocks but these are atoms#you know what happens when you try to divide atoms?#There's a Spongebob episode that does this really well...#C programming
aeolianblues reblogged
Unfortunately I cannot hold it against my students that they use bubble sort but hoo boy if I could
The nerve of this kid to just casually drop the fact that he’s passed eight variables to a function is almost convincing
#I hope this doesn't become a saga or anything but#This semester students need to upload a video of them explaining what they were doing#The perfect place to let me what on earth they were thinking#And this kid just causally goes 'here are my eight variables for storing these values'#And I'm really hoping the exclamation mark in my feedback doesn't give away much#C programming
Unfortunately I cannot hold it against my students that they use bubble sort but hoo boy if I could
#bubble sort. bubble sort.#I'm getting bubble sorts in a code that has hard coded getting 8 inputs#no loops#no using arrays#instead 8 variables#I know C sucks with pointers and everything but MATE#why would you pass eight variables to a function? Eight?#why would you make me read that?#As Barack Obama once said bubble sort is not the answer#or something#he really did say that#Our prof made it a point to show us the clip in class in first year but the audio system stopped working the same day#no bubble sort#coding#algorithms#sorting shit out#computer science#academia#C Programming#TAing