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@electrineer showed it to my other TAs and instructors, said the TA went overboard because code quality accounts for only 10 marks 🙃
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@kitsune tag me on the post
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WTF?! Elegance is quite subjective and should be explained. Could be too much copy&paste code, violating the DRY principle, or maybe it's yoyo code, or so many indentation levels that it digs out a Balrog from the right monitor side, or that functions do too many different things, or no scope minimisation including unnecessary globals, or passing around a gazillion of variables instead of using structs.
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@Fast-Nop I agree completely. My problem was there were no explanation to why elegance was a big problem. We were told not to use structs or use library functions, globals, extra variables if possible etc which heavily limited what we could actually write.
I might write shit code, I might be a complete n0ob but I need to know that lmao. I'm very new to Algo and Data structures anyway 🤷🏻♀️ -
@Condor I mean, I understand. My current instructor has degrees and a Doctorate from a very reputable university and she's very good in her field, I'm sure. She's just a crappy disorganized instructor which I'm sure resulted in such a weird incident.
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@kitsune hmm, degrees and doctorates.. certificates. I guess you'll find out soon enough how I think about those.. but searching for "certified enganeers" here on devRant should give you a good idea 🙃
Oh well, perhaps there's exceptions to the rule... But overall I found a lot of truth in the saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach" 😉
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
The moment when all your tests cases for the first assignment of the term pass, your code is refactored and have adequate comments but you only get a 52/100 because your marker says your code is not "elegant enough" as a feedback.
Yeah, those were his exact words with no specific context or reasons. He didn't even explain when I went to him for explanations. I don't mind a bad grade, I could be wrong and that is fine.
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