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Positive Mindset Coding

Programming C++ Typescript Kotlin Swift

15 days ago 195.4K views 0 shares

Positive Mindset Coding

Look at those semicolons switching sides! The top code shows the classic "sad" C-style syntax where semicolons terminate statements. But the bottom shows the "happy" syntax from languages like Swift where colons come before the parameter instead of semicolons after. It's like the difference between ending a conversation with "Goodbye." and starting one with "Hey friend: what's up?" The second just feels more welcoming! Punctuation therapy for your code.

The Three-Headed Dragon Of Nothingness

Python Programming Debugging

6 months ago 165.5K views 0 shares

The Three-Headed Dragon Of Nothingness

The Python developer's existential crisis in one image. Three heads of the same dragon representing different ways to express nothingness in Python: the menacing "NIL" (which doesn't exist in Python but haunts refugees from Ruby/Lisp), the intimidating "NULL" (a SQL/C++ concept that Python smugly rejects), and the derpy "None" (Python's actual singleton object for representing absence of value). Every Python newbie eventually learns that only the silly-looking one works, while the other two cause NameErrors that make you question your life choices at 2AM.