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TIFU by not using objects in my object-oriented programming coursework (lemmy.ca)

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[–] eager_eagle 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tbh if the average grad school student overused object oriented stuff they would produce vastly better code than the status quo.

[–] LavenderDay3544 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I strongly disagree.

[–] eager_eagle 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I've seen plenty of grad student code, abundance of OOP concepts was never an issue. Complete lack of any structure on the other hand....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You can't teach experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bad abstraction is worse than no abstraction

If the code is going to poorly organized, I'd prefer it to just be one single gigantic standalone script than some wrong and misleading arrangement of objects or functions that adds more complexity than they solve