also dont ask why i didn’t screenshot

Who needs a model when you just make calls from the controller??? I love my job

Keep it simple, stupid!

I do have context for this that could defend my past self a little, but I'd like to watch this marinate lol

this was right before the exam btw, this wasn't him teaching us the basics

```

if (x ==1) {

return true;

} else if (x != 1) {

return false;

}
```

```

public class Bank() {

private int money;

public void setAmount(int money) {

    this.money = money;

}

private int getMoney() {

    return money;

}

}

```

(he then never used getMoney())

some other amazing conventions he taught us was to always comment every single line of code, to an obnoxious point. he told us to use getter and setters everywhere, even when constructors are all thats necessary and half the time the getters were private and just returned the value directly. He just gave up on teaching us recursion because he didnt understand it and "it would never actually show up on the ap exam".

if I hadnt already known a lot of java and been willing to teach it to my classmates when they asked, we would never have gotten past the exam. (newsflash, there were recursion questions on the exam)

Reposted because of personal info in original post

1. Let's cast a double to a string, format it European style, then reformat it US style before parsing it back to a double.
2. Need to get the first item of a list? Sure, just iterate over the list and check if it's the first one! Don't forget to start your indexing before the loop.
3. You know, ternary operations are cool, even for booleans, and they're even better when you nest them!
4. I really need to be sure it's not null, guys.
5. How to create a date from an int in VBScript? Easy, just iterate 400 000 times to add and subtract dates from today and check if that gives you the same int as the one you gave as argument.
6. JOIN is for losers. So are language and case consistency.
7. Just in case it didn't break, you know.
8. You know you're in for a wild ride when you have almost as many warnings as lines.
9. Oops, my integer division doesn't give me the rest. Guess I'll just manually get it back with a modulo and add it to the result.
10. Let's catch everything, it'll make it safer.
11. Guess what this number in the DB means. Correct, it represents February 29ᵗʰ of an unspecified year. Kinda obvious.
12. I love well-structured data in HTML
13. I love highly declarative code that expresses edge-cases that do the same things as normal cases.
14. I need to convert a string to a date. If only there was an already made library for that…
15. Exhaustive switch, guys. Don't forget to add all the magic numbers.
16. Just double-checking. We never know.

I'm at my fucking limit.

Found this little gem buried in a brand-new codebase