Comment on The temptation is always there

• Successful_Try543@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. He really thought it was efficient and would avoid errors if literally all variables were defined in a single Matlab function he called at the beginning of the script. We students all thought: “Man, are you serious.” As we didn’t want to debug such a mess, in our code, we ignored what he was doing and kept using local variables.

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  • Chriszz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah I misread I thought it was specifically a programming course. I can expect this from a math prof.

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    • Successful_Try543@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, it was a course on finite deformation material models and no, you do really, really not want to declare each and every variable in your material subroutine globally for the whole finite element program.

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  • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lecturers at universities tend to not have little to no industry experience at all.

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    • Techmaster@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s why when your job hires new people right out of college they have no idea what they’re doing and now must be trained how to actually do the job. “What, you mean we aren’t writing this enterprise application in python!?”

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    • Successful_Try543@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Productive research is also hard to imagine with such coding practice either.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve seen two teachers do this, both of them mathematics professors who teach programming for the extra cash. One teaches C, the other Pascal.

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh they were paying, way too much

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