• jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    here’s a more nuanced question: in school iirc my teacher was implementing terminal 2-human tic-tac-toe with us and used an only slightly less egregious 7-by-3 AND/OR gate to see whether any player had won. because I didn’t like all the repetition, my version iterated through a 7-by-3 list of lists of indecies instead. every toy programming problem I’ve seen since was so general that it didn’t go well with this kind of hardcoding either

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      3 months ago

      When creating an example for beginning programmers, sometimes using a very inefficient data structure is more illustrative and a helpful educational tool.