Oh come on man. If you've never written code that you can't explain, have you ever even coded?

It doesnt work, why?

It works, why?

In a learning scenario, you should learn how it works.

I've written code i can't explain anymore. It's because my documentation sucked. Being annoyed by my own work has greatly improved my code quality.

@CWins Yea I got that part. Just like he strongly encouraged us to learn to debug on our own, and not rely on him or the TA to help us.

@jhh2450
That is an important lesson.

@CWins It's a painful lesson. I'll be glad when I get my devRant stress ball to help me through the times lol.

Id get a duck, but talking to a rubber duck in class will probably make people question my stability lol

Become a ventriloquist and make that duck talk to you.

I guess im not a coder - despite long years of coding.

IF YOU DONT KNOW THE UNDERLYING TECH, DONT USE IT

^my manthra

As I am observing my classmates in university, lot of them don't understand programming, I mean it's just basic stuff. We are just making bullshit POS systems and people cannot even do that. They don't even understand the basic concepts. Algorithm is like rocket science for them. They just ask around for the source code from seniors or just from a few of their friends that do understand what they are doing.

No one asks me though 😃
Maybe that's because I don't have any friends 🤔

But, that's why they ask you questions about your code.

@rockford5281 I write comments for almost every line of code to make sure I know why I'm doing what I'm doing.

(Most of the time I write it on a note pad. I don't want to make the job of our TA grading the assignments any harder.)

As for being asked for help, most people just get our professor. It's a small class and most of the time easy for him to see us 1 on 1.