Re:Coding - the new Latin
by morsch on Monday November 28, 2011 @03:38PM
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We programmed abstract data structures in Pascal. I think we implemented quicksort. I guess I was lucky?
Fun story: The first time I was truly speechless in CS in high school was when my teacher, looking at my code, told me that, for a boolean variable foo, it's not necessary or reasonable to write
IF foo = TRUE THEN // whatever; "=" is comparison in Pascal BTW
but rather you can just write
IF foo THEN // whatever
It seems trivial, even stupid now, but at the time it was an eye-opener.
Fun story: The first time I was truly speechless in CS in high school was when my teacher, looking at my code, told me that, for a boolean variable foo, it's not necessary or reasonable to write
but rather you can just write It seems trivial, even stupid now, but at the time it was an eye-opener.