(April 24, 2016 at 3:22 am)Mathilda Wrote:(April 23, 2016 at 11:40 pm)Tiberius Wrote: What was her reasoning for making the code so efficient? I mean, it's great to write efficient code, but that's usually something you do in advanced programming classes rather than a discrete math class.
Bloody Mathematicians always write the worst code. Literally. You try refactoring their code and it's all variable names with single letters that you can't search for to check whether there is a side effect. Or non descriptive short function names that give no clue as to what the function does. The mindset of a mathematician is that you automatically know everything about their code.
The lecturer should be sent on a software engineering course.
I should have clarified, she's the Computer Science Department Chair, and this is Discrete Maths for Computer Science, so everything is angled towards that bent.
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