In college, on the first day of orientation, someone in my class bragged that they wrote 50,000 lines of code for a game that was similar to tic tac toe, emphasizing that he "wrote a lot of code". A TA told him that it wasn't a sign that his program was decent and that it really didn't seem like it should take 50k lines of code to make something as simple as his game.

He dropped out after the first week of intro to programming.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's nothing, I wrote the code to return if the input is even or not in 1M lines of code.

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If 1 no else if 2 yes else if 3 no....

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

If you want to learn natural language processing, this is actually a fun example to generate code for.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Exactly...

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Are you working with 20 bit integers? You'll never get it down to a million lines like that...

There's a million lines of If >4096, subtract 4096

Then a quick lookup case statement for whether the remaining number is even.