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The Kid Should Be A Programmer
Programming
14 days ago 46.1M views 0 shares
The Kid Should Be A Programmer
Oh honey, the kid GETS IT. When asked to draw a clock showing 10 minutes past 11:00, they just went full digital mode and drew "11:10" on a screen. Technically correct? Absolutely. What the teacher wanted? Probably not. But here's the thing - why waste time drawing those fancy analog clock hands when you can just display the raw data? That's peak efficiency right there! The teacher is probably having an existential crisis wondering if they need to specify "analog clock" in their instructions now, but honestly? The kid just solved the problem using the most straightforward implementation. No unnecessary complexity, no fancy UI elements - just pure, unfiltered time representation. Someone get this child a keyboard and a stack of programming books because they're already thinking like a developer who's been burned by over-engineered solutions one too many times.

Early Access
Algorithms Programming
7 months ago 572.3K views 2 shares
Early Access
Kid's already implementing their own sorting algorithm instead of just using the built-in one. First answer? "aelpp" for apple. That's not a typo—that's literally alphabetically sorted characters. They took the word "apple" and sorted each letter individually (a-e-l-p-p) like they're running a char array through a sort function. The teacher wanted them to sort the words by their first letter, but this future developer interpreted the spec literally: "alphabetical order" = sort the characters. The rest of the answers follow the same pattern—"ikmnppu" (pumpkin), "glo" (log), "eirrv" (river). They're treating strings as mutable character arrays and applying a sort operation to each one. This is the kind of literal thinking that makes you either a brilliant compiler designer or someone who spends 3 hours debugging why their code does exactly what they told it to do, not what they wanted it to do. The kid's not wrong—they just solved a different problem with O(n log n) complexity when the teacher wanted O(1) lookup.