• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    7 months ago

    I don’t see why a teenager couldn’t be a good enough coder to collaborate. I’ve seen teenagers code all kinds of incredible things.

      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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        7 months ago

        My first program was a script that put up a dialog box that counted how many times you’ve clicked ok. When you got to 100, it mocked you for mindlessly clicking the button, then started counting again with no further messages

        It was on the check-in computer at my summer job, and I wrote it immediately after being shown how to write a batch file by the college student I was working with. I’d just run it and tell them to keep clicking and something would happen, then I’d just quietly watch to see how far past 100 they’d go before they got annoyed and asked if it did anything else

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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          7 months ago

          When I took programming in high school, in my senior year a few years after I’d already started learning C++ on my own I turned in an assignment to demonstrate I knew how to handle error popups or something and my program would ask if you wanted to delete the system32 directory with everything but yes grayed out and then it would look like it was deleting files even though it wasn’t.

          Would have gotten 100% if the teacher didn’t take points away for the joke. 😮‍💨

    • Cosmos7349@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Definitely good enough. Just make sure to peer review, since one could say they tend to have more… uhhhh… creativity

      • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        I already coded when I was a teenager, and I’m only going to say that you couldn’t pay me enough to be in a position where I had to deal with my teen self’s coding antics regularly.

        • Miaou@jlai.lu
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          7 months ago

          Have you missed the news about xz? I thought about was doing a joke about that.