Lecturer :" Never ever create UML diagrams because it is a waste of time. Only people who can't code create these stupid things. Just sit down and start coding. "

...what the fuck

A lecturer is like the least likely to say such things lol

What an honest guy.

Our teacher wants us to draw those diagrams too. And I'm like nooooo. It needs so much time. I hate them. Buuuut when coding I always draw my code randomly on a paper (can look pretty ugly) and eventually use my calculator to test it. I hate my teacher and those diagrams to be like "noooo it has to be exactly like that. This line is 1cm to much on the right side" and I'm like "k? The fuck?"
Are you guys following the rules that strictly?

UML: The number one way to procastinate

I'm all for design, but in my experience UML is becoming a less and less relevant design tool.

The moment you're done with your UML its already deprecated and will never be updated again...

You guys all do UML diagrams in your head and don't even know it (in some form or another). But I think the core meaning that we should take away from this rant... is that the dev who said this, probably didn't go to college and is probably over compensated for their work.

Doesn't have to be UML, but you'd better be planning and laying things out before firing up your IDE.
No planning/on-the-fly-programming is the shortest path to unmaintainable spaghetti.

@mhudson I don't agree with you there. Most of the time I do exactly that: firing up the IDE and creating interfaces / dummy classed and TODOs arround the code to get a feeling how it will look. And in the process refactor>move/extract etc.

@scroach you may be an anomaly. I've worked in a lot of different places, with a broad spectrum of developers, and for the most part, the ones who didn't take time to plan made the least maintainable code.

Wow and we even had a subject that taught us half a year long how to create UML diagrams.

I am not a fan if UML either. Seems your lecturer was a bit more opinionated.

@mhudson nah, I bet his code is just shit

@greenhouse Oh bugger off.

I think you put to much value on collage education. It's good of course but if you don't have the right mindset and approach to problems you'll create shit code no matter how much education get exposed to.

I think the main take away of your comment is that you're someone who is desperate to prove that you're superior because went to collage.

Yours sincerely,
a self taught dev

@Froot <-- says the wanna be c++ engineer

@greenhouse Wanna be c++ engineer? Where'd you pull that out from?
Are you upset that I called you out?

@Froot I pulled that out of your own post. lol

@greenhouse Where exactly did I mention I'm a c++ engineer?

@Froot https://devrant.io/rants/768944/...

I usually create a diagram of the general core part but that's it

@greenhouse Ah now I see, you went desperately searching through my posts to find anything to come back at me with. I thought you referred to my comment here.

So what's the problem with wanting to learn c++? Or are you trying to use the fact that I don't yet know c++ to claim your superiority? That would be pretty juvenile don't you think?