0 points
Teaching someone the wrong way to do something frequently makes the right way make way more sense. Someone who just copy/pasted 99 near identical if statements understands on a fundamental level when, why, and where you use a for loop much more than someone who just read in the textbook “a for loop is used to iterate elements in a collection”.
1 point
Reminds me of a dude that wrote the equivalent of this in Visualg (a brazilian pseudocode language and program, meant solely for teaching programming)
if
if
if
if
if (x < 10) then
print(x)
else
else
else
else
else
That the thing ran and didn’t complain about the amount of loose/needless if’s checking fuck all baffles my mind to this day.