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Who Needs For Loops? Oh Wait, I Do

Javascript Csharp Programming Java Debugging

18 days ago 75.0K views 0 shares

Who Needs For Loops? Oh Wait, I Do

The eternal programmer's paradox: using foreach to avoid the complexity of traditional for loops, only to realize you desperately need the index anyway. That moment when your elegant, clean code solution crumbles because you forgot about that one edge case where you need to know "where" you are in the collection. Then shamefully creating a counter variable outside the loop like some kind of barbarian. The cognitive dissonance is physically painful.

To Understand Recursion, First Understand Recursion

Programming Algorithms

2 months ago 88.4K views 1 shares

To Understand Recursion, First Understand Recursion

The perfect book index doesn't exi— wait, it does! Looking up "recursion" sends you to page 269, which sends you back to "recursion." That's not a bug, it's a feature! Whoever designed this index deserves both a promotion and therapy. It's like the dictionary definition of "recursion" should just say "see recursion" but this mad genius actually implemented it in a programming book. Chef's kiss for meta humor that makes CS professors silently nod in approval while the rest of humanity remains confused.