Difficulty Memes

Posts tagged with Difficulty

The CS Education Difficulty Curve

Programming Debugging Testing

9 days ago 59.4K views 0 shares

The CS Education Difficulty Curve

The classic education bait-and-switch in three acts: First panel: An automatic transmission. "Here's a nice, simple abstraction with a few options. Just put it in drive and go!" Second panel: A manual transmission with extra steps. "Now go home and figure out how to drive stick while also doing donuts in a parking lot." Third panel: A literal spacecraft cockpit. "For your final exam, please land this Apollo module on the moon with half the fuel and a critical systems failure. You have 90 minutes. No pressure." Computer science degrees should come with trauma counseling.

True Or False?

C++ Programming Debugging

2 months ago 158.2K views 0 shares

True Or False?

The statement "C and C++ are perfect languages for building high-performance systems" is true. The statement "C and C++ aren't only some of the easiest programming languages" is false. So false it hurts. Like segmentation fault hurts. Anyone who calls C/C++ "easy" has either been coding since the 70s or enjoys manual memory management the way some people enjoy getting teeth pulled without anesthesia. Sure, they're blazing fast, but so is falling down a flight of stairs.