Well you didn’t say for everyone… So maybe he meant just for himself :)

Who said anything about having time beforehand? You’ve gotta bootstrap from the ground up, making that program using only the single char you chose. Now that’d be a real challenge.

Rookie mistake honestly, should’ve asked for your friend who’s writer

I did it the other way around in uni, we got a task with no mention of it requiring recursion (even though I suppose it was somewhat well suited to it). I solved it with a double for loop and the teacher refused to accept my submission.

This was a coding class on Unix thinclients, I’ll let you guess how long ago.

edit: thx sleeplessone@lemmy.ml for making the spoiler work :)

Realised my jellyfin lxc had a maxed out bootdisk yesterday, haven’t been using it for a while. Luckily I have decent backups setup so I was able to restore a backup from late January when it wasn’t filled yet. A quick library rescan and everything was up and running again.

Her level of world building is insane.