David BeazleyFeb 2, 2023

I'm genuinely starting to wonder if programmers are afraid (or not incentivized) to write "plain" looking code.

I look at a lot of Python examples these days and the main thing going through my mind is "wow, that thing you just wrote is like exactly the opposite of everything that initially attracted me to Python."

Show threadTerri K O 🍁
@dabeaz as someone who does code review for many beginner programmers, I sometimes (uncharitably) suspect it's a side effect of cobbling together solutions from search results. Or something something "your question has already been answered" (even though that's another question) forum moderator incentivization...
Feb 2, 2023 at 11:40pmWeb
Show threadDavid BeazleyFeb 3, 2023
@terri I recently had the experience of shadowing a current CS undergrad on solving a problem they were having. It was eye-opening, and not in a good way. Forget search results, it was more like cobbling together a solution by speed-running through YouTube videos.