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In the same vein, previous semester in Uni, we had a team project, not something too big, just very rushed.
At one point we were to contact a tcp server with JavaScript, send a one off measage, and return the reply, as the tcp server was a backing service.
My dumbass project partner has made a new server for it, just for being in the middle, so he wouldn't have to check how to make a single tcp request using async, he fluffed it up calling it "The Middleware" like anyone was going to respect it, and it took him almost two weeks working on it.
Wish i could just take that task away from him but it was his ONE TASK, and i had many others, safe to say i had to retake that course. Which is honestly humiliating since that course barely thought me anything to begin with.
This semester the task popped up again, took me half an hour to have the gist of the task down, in 12 lines of untyped JavaScript, ~120 with JSDOC types and convenience functions, didn't take much time at all.
Imagine wasting two weeks working your ass off because you can't be arsed to learn a simple concept, I'm sure he was grooming his own ego with the AI about how smart his implementation was, it required an extra dockerfile, documentation for it, and testing was out of the question because the code was utter garbage.
That sucks, why did you have to take the whole course again over a shitty group project?
For what it’s worth, students have always been dumbasses in programming classes. We made a card game in one and one of my classmates had 52 if statements to get the card suit and value.
That’s probably nit nearly the most egregious, just one I remember.
The project was most of the grade, you need to pass the test on top of it, and the grades we got for the project were shite because the same guy was responsible for the maintenance of the dockerfile.
This semester i was responsible, and all pf his past tasks were trivial on top of my past ones, which i already remembered how to do, of course the project wasn't entirely the same, just required the same things mostly.
A series of 52 if statements is plain irresponsible though lol.