Just realized my code was so bad my cat could have written it

I was showing my first Python script to a buddy who's been coding for years. He looked at it for a second and said, 'Dude, you've got 17 nested if statements. My eyes are bleeding.' I didn't even know what 'nested' meant. I spent the next two days learning about functions and loops instead of just stacking ifs like a weird tower. My new script does the same thing but is 40 lines shorter. Has anyone else gotten roasted so hard it actually helped?

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evan_davis23d ago

Oh man, that's the best kind of roast. It's like when someone points out a better tool you didn't know existed. I see it all the time with folks trying to do things the hard, messy way because they don't know the simpler trick yet. That brutal honesty from a friend who actually wants you to improve is pure gold. It stings for a minute, but it saves you years of building weird towers.

wendy_henderson2123d ago

Nah, sometimes that "brutal honesty" is just an excuse to be mean. @evan_davis, I've seen friends get torn down over tiny stuff and it just kills their confidence. What if the person already feels bad about their "weird tower" and your "help" just makes them want to quit building anything at all.

xena58223d ago

My friend Jake spent months on his first game demo. His buddy told him the controls felt like "driving a bus on ice" and Jake almost deleted the whole project. He fixed it though, and now he says that comment saved the game.