Iconic Things My Coding Professors Have Said (Part 2)
"windows is bad at following international standards because they think that they ARE the international standard"
"now i'm going to let you struggle for a while as you try to figure this out"
"mike in wonderland by lewis carroll. that would have been a much better book"
"before unicode, the world was an ugly place..."
"programming gives you a lot of power, but also a lot of power to do bad things... I'm looking at you walter" *PhD student/assistent professor Walter avoids eye contact, looking uncomfortable*
"extension codes are very versatile, great for lying, and quite fun to confuse your computer with"
"we don't have that much content to cover but it's VERY exciting content... at least i think so, but i'm also the kind of guy who thinks that finding an extra pair of socks when i thought they were all in the wash is exciting, so you probably shouldn't just trust my word for it"
"the first time i saw that notebook pop up i felt like i had a lot of power over the world so i hope you also get that mystical feeling today"
"in general, users are very stupid, as you know, so you need to guard what they enter into your system" *ten minutes later* "for example, the user might be stupid, as always" *ten minutes later* "but if your user is stupid, which is a common user fallacy - i'm sorry, you've probably realised by now i don't like users" *ten minutes later* "so here python is protecting you against yourself because, similar to users, we too can be stupid”
"so now, just because we like pain, how can we do this with a while loop?"
"You must close the memory address because you've opened the connection to that particular file. If you don't close it, you will lose that section of your memory. It's like going for a shower, you have to turn on the water, do unspeakable things, and then turn off the water. Opening and closing files is basic data hygiene"
"What would happen if i append to a non-existing file? ... no, you guys, i'm seriously asking, i have no idea, i don't know what this is going to do"
"now we're going to see something really cool! it's my life! no, i'm joking, that's the opposite of cool"
"that is a very good question, what do you think we should do to find the answer?" *student gives super complicated key command order to return an info help function on that one word of code and then lists even more complicated actions to actually make it understandable* "... That's definitely an option, but I was actually just going to suggest that we use google"
"there's this thing with files, where if you open them and don't close them, something horribly horribly wrong will occur, both on your computer and in your life because if you're the type of person who doesn't close files, then karma will do it's job"
"when you do this, nothing bad can happen... to your computer... that doesn’t include you"
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