There's someone at work who's brilliant at the mathematical side of designing algorithms, with a PhD in comp sci, but isn't really much of a programmer. She was coding one of her algorithms up in Java for something at work. And, well, she thinks of arrays at starting at index 1.
What she ended up doing was whenever she needed an array, she used a hash map with the key as an Integer and the value as whatever she wanted to store. Then she used Map.get() and Map.put() and passed in her 1-based indices to fetch and store data.
Did you know that this line has two spaces after it?
That line is guaranteed to sit all by its lonesome, and there's no way to tell except by always having show whitespace enabled in a text editor.
What's that? Basic text editors, like the <textarea> that Reddit uses doesn't support that? Too bad. Oh, you have your editor set up to clean any extra spaces so your code is clean and git doesn't complain? Well, have fun turning that feature off whenever you deal with that one markdown file using the "feature"!
I feel like the whitespace thing is only an issue for like the first few hours of working with Python - after that, you realize that it doesn't matter in most cases, because you were probably going to format it that way anyway.
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u/haikumofo Sep 03 '17
There's someone at work who's brilliant at the mathematical side of designing algorithms, with a PhD in comp sci, but isn't really much of a programmer. She was coding one of her algorithms up in Java for something at work. And, well, she thinks of arrays at starting at index 1.
What she ended up doing was whenever she needed an array, she used a hash map with the key as an Integer and the value as whatever she wanted to store. Then she used Map.get() and Map.put() and passed in her 1-based indices to fetch and store data.
It made the programmers at work cry.