That's not reddit, I wish crap like this be removed from hacker news.
Tell HN: My child's first program
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Re: Tell HN: My child's first program
#122That's not reddit, I wish crap like this be removed from hacker news.
If the community as a whole didn't like lighthearted posts like this, they're be buried. Fortunately, it seems that the rest of HN aren't a bunch of miserable old bastards too. :P
Re: Tell HN: My child's first program
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I got fired over a variable name...." - https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/dpcfns/i...
Surprisingly I did get pulled into a meeting with the CEO and a sales/custcare guy because of a similar issue. I wrote functions that are available for the users to use (they can customize their own dashboard). Our function conventions are camelCase. The function I wrote was something along the lines of `cumOnMetric` or something like that. Needless to say some square somewhere thought this was a joke and didn't like…
I don't see how the casing matters here? Would `cum_on_metric` somehow be better?
Re: Tell HN: My child's first program
#124That's not reddit, I wish crap like this be removed from hacker news.
If the community as a whole didn't like lighthearted posts like this, they're be buried. Fortunately, it seems that the rest of HN aren't a bunch of miserable old bastards too. :P
I hate the idea that a community is only on topics. Humans are wholesome things. A certain percentage off-topic is cool.
Re: Tell HN: My child's first program
#125That's excellent! Variable assignment, strings, function calls, and two layers of humor!
I'm interested as to what age she was when she figured this out? I'd think maybe a 10 year old ? But one steeped in tech from the start maybe younger? 8 ?
Re: Tell HN: My child's first program
#126I got hooked into programming via Game Maker, and I've heard of similar experiences from a few of my colleagues.
Good fun taking a platformer base and messing with the physics calculations. :)
Re: Tell HN: My child's first program
#127Proud you both can be.
Now, with the advent of programming languages supporting full Unicode encoding (e.g. in Swift) since a few years ago, the option of
Emoji as variable names
(Unfortunately the HN comment system does not support Unicode and justs deleted them from my neat example)
Re: Tell HN: My child's first program
#128Hilarious! After a few of those, I taught my son how to open the javascript console and "hack" his favorite cookie clicker. He was so excited to show his friends but the school-provided chromebooks are really locked down. I was disappointed, thinking that would be the end of it, but his whole class has been trying to find ways around the blocks and filters ever since. They've found some clever workarounds and a lot o…
Poorly implemented device lockdowns by my school were the start of my interest in understanding and manipulating systems, long may they last!
The default admin password for a popular educational software that locked down Windows was "changeme". My school did not change the password.
Re: Tell HN: My child's first program
#129My first program was drawing an escher stairs using basic. Computer screens had just two colors these days, dark green (background) and light green (foreground). Things were simple and fun these days.
Re: Tell HN: My child's first program
#130Hilarious! After a few of those, I taught my son how to open the javascript console and "hack" his favorite cookie clicker. He was so excited to show his friends but the school-provided chromebooks are really locked down. I was disappointed, thinking that would be the end of it, but his whole class has been trying to find ways around the blocks and filters ever since. They've found some clever workarounds and a lot o…
Poorly implemented device lockdowns by my school were the start of my interest in understanding and manipulating systems, long may they last!
its excellent! my school only let us modify files in our user network folder, and locked down anything on the C: drive. Turns out, if you could open cmd (you weren't allowed directly, but you could ask a vba script from excel to open one) you could just rename the C: drive to the K: drive or whatever, and that wasn't blocked lol. I'd use it to hide games like https://wz2100.net/ on particular computers, and show my mates which ones were on which computers, and make little excel files that had macros to open them