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Funny, I had a similar experience TAing “Intro to CS” (first semester C programming course). The student was certain he encountered a compiler bug (pushing back
by benldrmn 8mo ago
Funny, I had a similar experience TAing “Intro to CS” (first semester C programming course). The student was certain he encountered a compiler bug (pushing back on my assumption there was something wrong with their code, since while compilers do have bugs, they are probably not in the code generation of a nested for loop). After spending a few minutes parsing their totally unindented code, the off-by-one error revealed itself
- zehaeva 8mo agoOff topic, but I feel like this could be made into a Zen Koan from The Codeless Code[0]. You're almost there with it! [0] https://thecodelesscode.com/ https://thecodelesscode.com/
- direwolf20 8mo agoOffer topic, but the Codeless Code isn't Zen Koans. It's formatted like Zen Koans, and it's entertaining and brings value to the world, but it isn't the same thing.