So what? You also learn math with exercises that ‘do nothing’. If it bothers you so much add some print statements to the function bodies.
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Gutek8134@lemmy.world 3 days agoMy Java classes at uni:
Here’s a piece of code that does nothing. Make it do nothing, but in compliance with this design pattern.
When I say it did nothing, it had literally empty function bodies.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I actually did do that. My point was to present a situation where you basically do nothing in higher education, which is not to say you don’t do/learn anything at all.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 days ago
Mine were actually useful, gotta respect my uni for that. The only bits we didn’t manually program ourselves were the driver and the tomcat server, near the end of the semester we were writing our own Reflections to properly guess the object type from a database query.
boletus@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah that’s object oriented programming and interfaces. It’s a shit to teach people without a practical example but it’s a completely passable way to do OOP in industry, you start by writing interfaces to structure your program and fill in the implementation later.
Now, is it a good practice? Probably not, imo software design is impossible to get right without iteration, but people still use this method… good to understand why it sucks