The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I Started in the 80s

Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by flyaway on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @03:03PM (#13925172)

> It would be a lot more representative of today's work if you were asked: given these 3 github repos with packages that all purport to do X, which one would you pick for this set of requirements and why?

I play this game with my students on the second day of class, along with "read all these people fighting on StackOverflow and tell me the answer you have the most faith in." They split 50/50 between terrified and super pumped about how much trust they'll be putting in Random Internet Code.

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by AtheistOfFail on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:30PM (#13925934)

There was actually a web page that would answer your stack overflow answer by running and benchmarking all of them.

There was also a plugin that would allow you to directly grab code from stack overflow and put it right into your project, kinda of like a search engine for laziness (I think it was an Atom plugin)

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by PeterisP on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:47PM (#13926073)

There's stacksort, a sorting algorithm that searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them until it returns the correct answer.

An implementation is here https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by erik_seaberg on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:20PM (#13926351)

Also https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import which turns upvoted answers into modules.

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