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string.lower implementation (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by mac to c/programming_horror

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

here's a more nuanced question: in school iirc my teacher was implementing terminal 2-human tic-tac-toe with us and used an only slightly less egregious 7-by-3 AND/OR gate to see whether any player had won. because I didn't like all the repetition, my version iterated through a 7-by-3 list of lists of indecies instead. every toy programming problem I've seen since was so general that it didn't go well with this kind of hardcoding either

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

When creating an example for beginning programmers, sometimes using a very inefficient data structure is more illustrative and a helpful educational tool.