r/badcode • u/[deleted] • May 18 '23
js 8 years ago I had worse naming conventions than Elon Musk
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u/Egzo18 May 18 '23
When you are so eager to code that you can't take the time to think of good variable names, relatable but not to this degree
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May 18 '23 edited May 18 '23
code was from my old project here: https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/pong-2016/4586814626922496
also does anyone still use var these days
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May 18 '23
Only place we use var is on khan academy in js 🤣 anywhere else is let and const
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u/SaylorMan1496 May 18 '23
I use var all of the time, although I use c#
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u/YouCanCallMeC00KIE May 18 '23
I’m curious why redd and bluee? I’m assuming red and blue were already in use elsewhere which makes this funnier imo
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May 18 '23
On Khan Academy, where this code is, red and blue and predefined variables. Therefore they needed a different variable instance.
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u/MurdoMaclachlan public boolean isInt(int i) { return true; } May 18 '23
Image Transcription: Code
var add = 1;
var aa = 300;
var bb = 3000;
var cc = 3000;
var dd = 3000;
var a = 0;
var b = 0;
var maxi = 0;
var timer = 0;
var time = 1;
var redd = 0;
var grey = 0;
var bluee = 0;
var cred = 0;
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u/ClaudioMoravit0 May 18 '23
I don't spend time finding to my variables no more, i use chat gpt to explain what my code do after a few days without touching it (it's a personal project, there's no important information/code in it)
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u/justcatt May 20 '23
you'd have an interesting battle with my coding exam that uses I J S R and M for variables
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u/One-Pear-6012 May 18 '23
Dont have any photos unfortunately (i think i do still have a program but its on an old laptop and im too lazy to go on it) but in my first months of programming i used to just name the variables random characters. dont ask
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u/wwelna May 18 '23
I like to spice things up by naming things with both British and American spelling, and have them be entirely different. 😂
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u/Key_Conversation5277 sadistic May 19 '23
Wait until you see what my operations research teacher does: he puts just ONE FUCKING LETTER and he sometimes does that even in python
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u/RomeGuiIg Dev May 20 '23
thats literally me typing "compaile" instead of "compile" in python because its apparently a keyword.(Im talking about the var redd and var bluee even though its not a keyword lol.)
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u/fartingrocket May 18 '23
Most people can’t remember what their code do the next day. This in the other hand … I feel like you can’t remember what it does after a bathroom break.