FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for September 27, 2024

The AI made him do it.

She should tell him that if he rewrites that in assembly language, she’ll accept it.

Well, he already wrote it once in the code, so perhaps “count <=” could be 499!

If he’s so smart why didn’t he write the code in Rust?

Nice “C” code, brings back memories!

There’s no way Jason wouldn’t start his count variable at 0

I’m loving all these geek critiques!!!

would have been cooler if he used some formatting parameters…

C Señor.

To work off @sirbadger comment, he should do it in assembly, C#, python, ruby on rails, PHP, and (for history’s sake) ASP and ColdFusion.

It’s clever enough that I’d accept it. Also, why is she giving out the old Bart Simpson punishment in, when did this first run, 2003?

She’s got no sense of humor.

I LUV this kid’s style. I would have wrote it in PASCAL or Tiny BASIC.

Impressive though!

Is that some variation of “C”? It’s one language I haven’t learned. (my programming days got Way back)

It’s not the accuracy, it’s the length of the assignment needed

This is why I like this strip: I like geek.

That look of ’I’ve lost count of how many times he’s done this’

It’s pretty well-formed code, but there are some things that would get a ding on a peer review.

1. The main thing is that unintialized “count” variable. That’s bad in C, and most compilers would issue a warning for that. As this is ISO standard C, you can just declare and init the variable in the control:

for (int count = 1; count <= 500; ++count)

2. In C, for() loops should start at 0 unless there are very good reasons to do something else. None are apparent in the code as written.

3. I’d also suggest using puts() rather than printf() for efficiency reasons. Now, if he wanted to number the output statements, then printf() would be appropriate as would starting the variable at 1:

printf(“%d. I will not throw paper airplanes in class.\n”, count);

A classmate of mine did this in BASIC in the late 70’s. It wasn’t for paper planes but was close enough. And just as successful.

The teacher gave him a C for the assignment…

those were the days when we first learned how coding worked